Week 4 Readings

Computers and software have enabled individuals to become one-man or one-woman business es out of their homes. This has created part-time jobs and social net-working over the internet through your own personal website. Anyone in today's age can create a website of anything they are interested in people viewing. This however is not always a good thing. When people do research on the web they believe that all of the information they are reading is correct and valid. You need to trust the site that you are reading and getting information from. Anyone can create a web site on their thoughts of a topic which is not the correct information. This really applies to when you are doing any type of research, you need to make sure that it is a valid site.
Web design is a complex disciple, and there is always a need for beauty and designing for function. You can make a web site for both pleasureable and functions, appealing and usable. This is the goal as a web designer.

You can be your own website design creator if you put yourself to it; by reading up on how to create an effective website. Professional web site design services can be outrageously expense, however there are cheap designers but the quality of their work might not be what you are looking for as your website. It depends on if you have the correct layout of how you want your work to look and having someone else put their time into it. Building a website of your own can be extremely time consuming but then you know it is how you want people to view it. You are the one knowing what type of audience you want to view it. There are many sites out there that help you step-by-step on making an efficient website. Website builders are out there that only help with the technical side (creating and publsihing pages, hosting, domain names, etc.) These can be online and offline\, free and paid site builders.

However with this the cost of hosting web sites varies. Web storage is usually provided by the megabyte. Most commercial online services provide memebers free space, and there are even places that will give you free storage space if they can post their ads on their pages. Prices can be quite competitive so it really pays to shop around.