Turning Web Pages To Website The Easy Way

You have decide what is the theme or template for the web page, the header  and you have added in the content into the web pages, what you need to do next is to turn the web pages into a website. There are four easy steps to turn web pages to a website;

1. Naming the web pages
2. Organizing the web pages
3. Linking between the web pages
4. Transferring the web pages

Web Pages Naming

All the web pages for the website will have a unique web address (or URL). Do note some of the rules if you are using HTML files:

1) All the web pages must end with .html or .htm. As it identifies the pages as HTML file.

2) No spaces between naming of web pages. Once a space is found in the name of the web page, the web page will not appear on the Internet. Instead use hyphen for the spaces, so that your readers and search engines spiders can read. Here is a good example name-this-web-page.html. You may also want to place targeted keywords in the URL to rank better. Read SEO in your Website URL.

3) Case sensitive naming. Do note that NameThisPage.html is different from namethispage.html, and it will not help if you have someone typing the whole URL, and most of the people will use lower case. So go for lower case naming.

4) Home page is named with index.html. This automatically tells the browser that whichever has this index.html will be the home page.

You may have created dozens of pages or just a couple pages, so its best to organize the files systemically so that it will be easy for you and your readers to find the web pages. Different individual may have different to deal with this.

Organizing web pages

The web pages that you created can be stored in a folder with related keyword for your niche. E.g: You have a folder named “tips” and you can place the related web pages articles into the folder, and it will look like this www.YourDomainName.com/tips/article-name.html. This way it will be easy for you to find out where your web pages are, and it will be good for SEO as well. You might want to do some serious keyword research first before naming the folders and files. Use Keyword Research Pro: Keyword Software Tool to find out your targeted keywords.

The web pages that will make up the website are stored in folders in your computer before transferring to the web host. So you need to make sure that you place the correct web pages in the same folder, if not it will not appear right to the readers and the search engines. The same rule for case sensitive applies to the folder as well, be sure to use lower case and hyphens as well.

Do note that you can have a hierarchy so that it will look neat and easy to find the pages. See pic below.

So if you have 6 different main section you can create 6 different folders with the related web pages in the correct folder.

Web pages linking

Normal way of linking to web pages is to use the full URL of the web page and link it via anchor text or image. There is another way to link to the other pages, this is only linking to own site pages, its call relative URLs.

Here are example what the full URL look like: www.YourDomainName.com/full-url-name.html

This is what it will look like in relative linking URL: full-url-name.html

Web pages transfer

Now that you have created your web pages, naming them, organizing the web pages into folders, its time to transfer to your hosting.  You will need some FTP software like Filezilla and web hosting like Hostgator.

The process is quite simple, thank God I written a blog post on transferring files or folders to web hosting via FTP. You can read about it on the link.

So you have it, a website of your own, once this is done, you are to make sure that the website index the soonest.

I hope to hear from you in the comment below, if you have any questions or additional tips to share. I will be listening.

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