The Story Behind This Site

DORISDAY website is an upshot of my colossal aspiration to expand my very limited internet abilities. Though nothing prepared me to do this site, DORISDAY came into being still by accident, just like my being a blogger which also came by accident. My personal conviction to learn new web-related things was my only weapon to push through in making this website. By the way, I am not a graduate in any computer course and I also do not have any professional background in computer operations and web-related stuffs. This website is only an elementary achievement of an inexperienced but trying hard web maker and designer. Without doubt, how I made this site will inspire those HTML illiterates to start their own sites. Most books say that in order to start making your own web page, one should learn the basic things of HTML. When I was making this site, I never had the slightest idea of what HTML is and what it’s meant. Some books say that the HTML language is not that difficult to learn since the computer already has the tools necessary to get started writing HTML code. But to tell you honestly, until now I don’t know how it works even if I have read it a couple of times. I even copied an article I found on the web and here it is: 

How To Make A Web Page

The Basic Order of Things

Anyone who wants to learn how to create a web page has to do the following things.

1.       Learn HTML. 2.       Write a HTML document and save it to your home computer. 3.       FTP a copy of the HTML file you saved on your computer to Net.

Eventually you may wish to get a HTML editor to make quick work of coding HTML.

What is HTML?

HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. It is the basic building block of every web page on the net. Every web page you have ever seen is written with HTML. I highly suggest buying a book to learn HTML. The language itself is not that difficult to learn and your computer already has the tools necessary to get started writing HTML code.

Tools for Writing HTML?

You can write HTML code using any plain text editor like Notepad on Windows or SimpleText on the Mac. There are text editors available on the net that are specifically designed for creating HTML code. Notepad is a little too bare bones for myself. So I recommend that Windows download the shareware programs Edit Plus to write their HTML code with. It is simple, doesn’t use a lot of memory, and can even upload your pages to FrogNet. You don’t need a fancy program to write HTML.

Why Learn HTML?

The best way to learn how to write a web page is to learn HTML first. Unfortunately, people who are too impatient to read a book usually buy an HTML program that does all the thinking for them. While this might sound like the solution you are looking for, I highly discourage it. If you go the lazy route, you’ll never know how to tweak the HTML code to your web pages in order to make them look the way you want. You’re imagination will always be restricted by the confines of your HTML editor.I am not saying that you shouldn’t ever use an HTML editor. I personally use (and recommend) Macromedia Dreamweaver for the creation of HTML. I am saying that your first few pages should be written by hand, just so you can get the gist of things. After that, use a program to take the busy work out of HTML coding.

I have read the above article and many other related articles on web making for many times but still I can’t fully comprehend what is HTML all about and how it works.   After surfing the net, through Google and Yahoo, on the step by step free tutorials of creating a website, I came across WordPress and immediately signed up even if I didn’t know exactly how go about it. It was in August 2007 when I had my first blog on WordPress. The very pale blue boring page I created then was very disappointing that I lost interest in continuing my website project. It was only during the last week of February 2008 when I accidentally opened a not-so-good web page of a local TV personality that my desire to continue my website project came back. I am not saying that my site is better than that of the TV personality’s site. In a way, I am thankful to her because had I not seen that second-rate site, for sure, I am still having that pale blue boring site. Here’s a very easy step by step process making a website using wordpress as your editor: 

1. Go to www.wordpress.com and get a free wordpress account. My account is dorisday and my domain name is www.dorisday.wordpress.com
2. Register a blog or start creating your blog
3. Open the dashboard and make a post. If you are not yet prepared to make a blog, just write anything you wish to say and edit later
4. Everytime you want to edit your post or page, always log in to wordpress.
5. Just follow the instructions and don’t be afraid to explore.

 Enjoy working on your new website. I’m sure you will enjoy doing that just like I did. Let me know if you already have your site so I can make a visit.