Creating your own homepage is a great opportunity to check your abilities in creating web pages for the first time. Usually when you make your own webpage you are doing everything: from making a graphic design through writing HTML, CSS and JavaScript to programming the server-side apps. Many people, especially those, who start creating their own webpage make mistakes by putting everything into the layout. And by everything I mean really everything. People, mostly, those older (e.g. from the universities) think, that by placing more garish elements they will make the homepage more attractive. Obviously, it is huge mistake.

While creating your own homepage it is good to think about it like it would be your real home. I think it is perfect method of creating such a page in many aspects. With this in mind I will show you how should the work over your own homepage look like.

Build your house

Let’s analyze the steps of a house building. When you’re building such you:

  • Choose and buy a plans
  • Buy a terrain for a building
  • Make a foundations
  • Build the walls, floors, roof.
  • Design interior of every room

The way you should build you homepage is similar to the description above. In the next points I will describe the connections between the house and webpage creation. (more…)