Toastmasters Club Websites http:www'tmdistrict12'org

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Toastmasters Club Websiteshttp//www.tmdistrict
12.org

• Marco N. Rodriguez Jr.
• mnrodriguez1_at_msn.com
• Presented at District 12, TLI January 7, 2006

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A Question to Start Us Off --What are the
benefits of having a website for your club?

http//www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm
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Topics For Discussion

• Planning your website
• Website Lingo
• ISPs
• URLs
• Domains, Redirecting, Forwarding
• Web Hosting
• Webpage Building Tools
• Tutorials Reference Materials
• Free vs. Fee?

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Website Planning Tips

• Checkout other websites!
• Organization
• What will your site accomplish?
• Make it simple
• Design and layout (navigation)
• Content
• Who, What, When, Where, Why, How?
• Appearance
• What impression will a visitor get?
• Branding uniformity

Adapted from www.efuse.com
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Take Control!

• Practice makes perfect.
• It may not be easy at first, but dont give up!

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Website Lingo

• Internet Service Providers (ISPs)
• How do you connect to the internet?
• Dial-up, DSL, Cable
• AOL, Cox, Microsoft, Netzero, Verizon, Yahoo
• Uniform Resource Locators (URLs)
• The address of documents / files on the WWW
• URL IP Address Domain name
• HTTP FTP

What kind of doctor fixes broken websites?

• a URL-ogist

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Website Lingo

• Domain Names
• Not too long helps to identify makes sense
• Registering a domain name isnt expensive
• GoDaddy.com, Yahoo.com
• Domain Redirection Forwarding
• Some ISPs give free web hosting accounts
• You can point mask these free domains
• Spyproductions.com, Yahoo.com

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Website Hosting

• What is hosting?
• This is a computer server that stores your
  website
• Once you've uploaded your pages to the web
  server, your page is officially on the web!
• www.top-10-web-hosting.com
• Some ISPs offer free hosting!
• AOL, Verizon, etc. (small amount of space)
• Free hosting usually includes advertisements

Who offers FREE hosting?
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Website Hosting

• Two free web hosting services

www.orgsites.com This company offers free website
hosting space. Very easy to use online webpage
creation tools!
www.freetoasthost.org No cost professional web
hosting. Allows for uploading of club
information and additional content and resources.
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Webpage Building Tools

• HTML Editors
• CoffeeCup, Dreamweaver, Microsoft FrontPage,
  Word, Publisher, Web Studio, Web Weaver
• Many Web Hosting companies offer their own online
  HTML editors
• GoDaddy Website Tonight
• Homestead SiteBuilder Tools
• Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), HTML Frames,
  JavaScript, PHP, ASP, CGI Scripts, databases,
  blogs, music, video, flash, etc.
• FTP Clients click here for ftp
  tutorial
• Allow you to transfer files from your computer to
  the server
• AceFTP, CoffeeCup, Composer (Netscape), CuteFTP,
  FileZilla, FTP Voyager, Microsoft Internet
  Explorer (IE), Microsoft FrontPage, Smart FTP,
  WS_FTP

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Reference Materials

• Check out these FREE resources!

• Very Good!

www.efuse.com
www.webdiner.com/webadv
office.microsoft.com
www.make-a-web-site.com
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Final Thoughts

• Free or Fee?
• Paying for your URL Web hosting gives you more
  freedom control over your website
• Paying for your website services gives you more
  scalability and all of the bells whistles
• How much is your club willing to spend?
• Free website hosting will give you a basic web
  presence. This is better than nothing!
• Start Free then decide if you need to move to
  Fee based

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• Please leave your Evaluation forms
• This presentation will be available for download
  at www.tmdistrict12.org

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Extra Slides



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File Transfer Protocol (FTP)

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Microsoft FrontPage