My website

So I thought I would tell you about the website I currently own. http://www.gamercity.co.uk is a website which has been up for a couple of months now and I thought I would start sharing information on how well it is doing.

I thought I would tell you about things like what I am doing to it, how much traffic I am receiving, etc...

So I am going to start off by saying that it is a very small website created and maintained only by myself. It has taken many hours to get it to the stage it is at now and I am always looking for new ways to improve it. However recently I have been neglecting the site and not adding any new content. With this blog I hope to generate new articles every few days.

My main goals for the website are for it to become big enough so that it becomes my full time job. This will take time and a lot of effort but hopefully it will be worth it. I am now at the stage where I just have to create the content to add to my site. All the foundations are down and I am really happy with the way the site is coming along.

Current stats

My traffic is pretty poor. Anywhere between 1-5 everyday. This will hopefully change soon, but this requires me to put a lot more content on the site. My thoughts are the more content I put onto the site the more keywords that will generate me a bit more traffic. More traffic means I can rank for higher keywords better and thus generate more traffic.

I used to use advertising for a couple of weeks but these produced artificial results which were not permanent and did not make it worth my while. So right now I am fully focusing on generating purely organic traffic.

So anyway I need to get back to content writing.

First Project

My first ever project! I have been asked by a company to create a small 3 page website on which they will display things like viewing times for games and should have a decent navigation bar so that visitors can go to either the contact us page, the listings page or the home page. Which is fairly easy, and I plan on going with a very simple layout.

I will have a nice banner at the top which will be quite light, to reflect the rest of the page. And a simple navigation bar similar to the others I have already programmed. I will have a white background using blues/greens for the headings and things like that.

Anyway I need to get started. This could be my first website of many freelanced jobs so I need to make it good.

This will also add a name to my portfolio so I can have a bit more backing when trying to go in for other jobs and what not.

Anyway more updates tomorrow!

Tutorial 5 : CSS Basics and background color

Welcome to Tutorial 5 : CSS Basics. In this tutorial I shall show you how to use CSS files to make website creation easier and quicker. For example; It is far easier to write one piece of code once than have to write it 50 times for 50 webpages in a website.

Firstly I want you to open up Microsoft Visual Web Developer which is a free easy to use and powerful tool which will help you a lot in website creation. It can be downloaded from the Microsoft website.

I want you to start a new website. Make sure its an empty website, and then add both a HTML file and a Style sheet. Name them whatever you want.

Next I want you to open up the HTML file, as you can see the basic HTML structure is laid out for you already. Next in the head section I want you to type the following line

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="StyleSheet.css" />

Make sure that you change StyleSheet.css to whatever you have named your style sheet.

Now we have a link to our style sheet from our HTML file.

Secondly I would like you to open up your Style sheet as we are now going to be writing some CSS!
If all goes to plan you should have something similar to this:

body{

}

This means that whatever you code into the brackets will directy effect whatever is in your &alt;body> tags which is your whole website.

Now I would like you to type in:

background-color:Red;

Now when you go back and preview your webpage it should have a Red background. As you can see this could be incredibly useful if you have hundreds of webpages all following the same design.

So congratulations you have completed Tutorial 5 : CSS Basics and background color.

Please stay tuned for more HTML and CSS tutorials and remember to follow my blog either view RSS or through blogger's follow function! Thanks!

Tables instead of Divs

Tables in webpage layouts are something I have been looking into for a couple of days now. They look to be far less complicated than using the CSS method of equal column height on your webpages. Having to create several Divs which encapsulate the main columns on websites was quite a tricky thing to do. Tables however allow me to create as many columns as I wish by just stating the width and what row the column has to be placed on. This is great. Although I will have to find a way to transfer this over to a CSS page which will be the basis for all my other pages. Hopefully now I can start dishing out quite a few more websites a week.

Anyway I have school today so I have to get ready. But I will hopefully post another tutorial up tonight. I might do it on CSS pages as it is, in my opinion a lot easier to create websites with.

Anyway bye for now!

Website finished

So I took some time today to try and put some of the things I have learned together into one website. It took be about 2 hours and I am pretty pleased with the results. Heres a quick screenshot.

I went for a silver color scheme as I didn't want to waste time choosing what would go well with what. But I think I did a good. You can download this website from here

Anyway I need to start work on my next, even better website.

Anyway I need to get to work on my next website.

Please don't forget to become a follower here on blogger and keep up to date with any new tutorials and websites that I put up. Thanks.

Introduction

So guys I am a young web developer and am hoping to give you tutorials and tips on how to program your own website. I am learning everyday so the intention of this blog is to provide you with useful tips as well as Ideas and tools you can use to create your own websites.

I thought I would start by saying that I also program games as a hobby. I enjoy creating something from nothing and programming either with HTML or C# seem to be an easy way to create a limitless amount of different things :D

Stay tuned for tutorials on how to create your own website, These tutorials will be for people who want to learn HTML and CSS. Hope you enjoy!