Learn make a website offline.
Making a website offline is nearly the same as making a website online, except that you work with a directory on your computer's hard drive or a portable drive rather than a live website that others can see on the Internet.
Your offline website will only work on a computer that houses the entire site; that is, if you make multiple copies to place on multiple computers, it will work on all those computers. However, if you make a change on one computer, it will not extend to other computers with the offline website.
Alternately, you can design a website offline with the intention of placing it on the Internet for viewing by anyone with an Internet connection and a web browser after it is fully designed.
Instructions
Make A Website Offline
1. Plan your website. Gather any images you plan to use, write content and decide what pages will be on your website. Most websites require at least a home page, an about page and a contact page, whether the site is for a business, a musician, or a personal site.
2. Build the website with web development software. There are numerous free and paid options available; one of each is included in the Resources section of this article.
To build the website, first create the home page; call the file "index" and use a file extension that matches the language you are programming in (.html if you are using Hypertext Markup Language; .cfm if you are using Cold Fusion; .asp if you are using ASP, etc.).
You will first need to tell the document what language you are using by, for example, opening an tag, which you will close at the very end of the page. In the area, place your meta data--that is, the title of the page, the description and keyword. After you use the closing tag, open a tag and design your home page, including the content.
At the end of the page, using a closing tag and a closing language tag, such as . A website with tutorials for using various web-friendly languages is listed in Resources.
3. Duplicate the index file for the next page of your website. In most web development programs you can do this by selecting "Save As" from the File menu. Name the file to match the content that will be on the page, such as "about" or "contact." Replace the content from the home page with the content for the new page you are creating.
4. Repeat Step 3 until you have created all your pages. It is unnecessary to clone the index file each time; you may duplicate the last page you created, if you prefer.
5. Upload your website to the Internet if you wish to make it live; otherwise, it will function correctly on your computer. Upload the site using a File Transfer Protocol (FTP) client such as the free Filezilla. For this step, you will need a domain name (an address such as YourWebsite.com) and a hosting plan, which gives your files a place to live online so that people can view the site. See Resources for a domain registrar/web host.
The FTP client will require you to connect to your hosting account, and once there it allows you to copy files from your computer to your web host's server space so that your offline website becomes available online.
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