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Building Your Own Website

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Rondo Workshop Schedule -- A schedule of Monday night workshops at Rondo Library presented by St. Paul E-Democracy.

This workshop will introduce you to the basics of creating a website, from HTML to content management systems and hosting. We'll show you what to consider when setting up websites large and small.

1 Introduction
2 Examples and Applications

[edit] Introduction

The following is an introductory presentation: http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=dg7j36tr_155c57x4tcq

[edit] Examples and Applications

[edit] Blogger

Very easy way to get a blog.
Not always a great way to get a website.

[edit] Site Builders

Very easy way to get a small, low-traffic site for free.
Google Page Creator
Yahoo! GeoCities
(Note that better services than these two probably exist.)

[edit] E-Democracy.org

Note that every subdomain is a different web app: forums, wiki, blog.
Note the embedded video widget on the St Paul Election 2007 page.

[edit] WordPress

WordPress is a CMS for blogging.
Harder than Blogger, but some people like to customize.
Adam's Page

[edit] Drupal

SPCB (A site I am putting together)
Only "easy" compared to doing everything from scratch.
RTFM
- You don't know what you're doing.
- There are instructions somewhere.
- Find them.
- Follow them.

(Note that many of the instructions are in readme files in the Drupal folder, and that, for whatever reason, these text documents are completely illegible on the screen. They print out fine though.)