Web Technologies and Solutions

Keith Feighery

Setting up a site

Select a Domain

Nameservers

Choose a hosting package

Finalise Domain and Hosting

Login to Account

Building your site

• You have a website domain name registered & a hosting package

• Now you need to create a website • Decide on what solution you are going to use

– Bespoke (built from scratch)– Opensource (free code but need to to customise)

• Eg. Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, magento– Paid for solution (built on open source)

• Typepad, Expression Engine– Hosted solution

• Wordpress.com, BigCommerce, Magento Enterprise

Essential Tools

FTP Clients

Database Connection

Graphics Packages

Wireframe Solutions

Mockingbird

Balsamiq

Picodo

iplotz

Open Source & Hosted Solutions

eCommerce Hosted

Open Source eCommerce

Blogging

Wordpress

Tumblr

Posterous

SquareSpace

Content Management Systems

Drupal

JOOMLA

Expression Engine

Lightweight CMS

Lightweight CMS