5 CREATING INFORMATION

The most popular tools for creating and distribuing information on the Internet are web pages, blogs and wikis.

5.1 Web pages

Steps you must follow are:

1. Register a domain
2. Sing up with a host server
3. Design and create your web page
4. Upload your page to the server
5. Update your page regularly 

Domain names
To register a domain for your web page, you must choose a name that is not already being used.

Host servers
Companies such as Arsys and Nominalia host web pages by offering space on their servers.

Designing and creating a web page:
This will make your web page more attractive: title, colour combinations, a balanced layout, hyperlinks, visual impact, comments from users, page order.

Uploading a web page to a server
You can use a FTP (File Transfer Protocol) programs to upload your web page to the server.

Completing and updating a web page
If the content is always up to date, people will continue visiting your web page.

5.2 Blogs

They were originally used as online diaries for people. Nowadays many blogs are 'opinion generators' about a variety of other topics.

5.3 Wikis

A wiki is a collection of web pages that visitors can edit