Submitted by Kelly McKinnon on Thursday, May 7, 2009 - 15:27

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A website is kind of like the human body. It has a head(er) at the top, a foot(er) at the bottom, we have a front end and a back end, and our center is the core… though we don’t usually call our arms navigation bars.
Unfortunately constructing a website is a little more complicated.
Before you even start building your site you need to decide what type of website you want to have.
Today we looked at and discussed what is known as open source, or freeware websites.
These websites are possible through a collaboration of efforts. This means multiple people act as administrators for the web site and can alter or change it as they wish. Drupal is an example of this type of web site.
There are many advantages to using this type of site.
One of the most obvious advantages is that people who have greater skills or knowledge can improve the site or add on to it to make it better.
The down side is that the website is constantly changing and this can become irritating or confusing for people visiting the site.
Tomorrow we will all be creating our own sites. And with all the new information and language we still need to learn, it seems a bit intimidating.
Wish us luck.

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