Setting up a website that will allow persons to select illustrations, textual materia

[aaron horowitz]

1. I have a domain name and want to set up a website. I want to learn how to do this.
2. I want to set up a site dealing with veterinary anatomy. I want the
person contacting the site to be able to select species and area of
anatomical interest. Having done that I want the person to be able to
click on text and illustrations and, in many cases, powerpoint
presentations.
3. I want the person to be able to contact me with questions and/or
comments. The person could use my regular email: achorowitz@gmail.com
or an email address set up especially for the website.
4. I'm not sure how to do the website setup. I have thousands of first
class illustrations; I have a lot of textual material in microsoft
word; I have a lot of powerpoints. I need to know how to place these
on the website. I need to know how to modify them occasionally. I
would like to be able to put on the website the questions posed to me
by website visitors and my answer to them.
5. I would like a person googling "veterinary anatomy" or "animal
anatomy" or "anatomy" to have my site come up as a choice.
6. Please tell me how I can do this. Please indicate cost.
Thank you, Aaron Horowitz

[oheso]

Aaron, is this something you want to learn to do by yourself (Point 1), or are you willing to pay to have someone do it for you (Point 6)?

I'd like to encourage you to learn as much about website development as you can, if that's your goal. But you should take baby steps (a few simple, static websites) before taking on a project on the scale you're indicating.

I'm just in the midst of teaching some colleagues and friends HTML, CSS and JavaScript, and I've set up a simple website with some information, here. The site is not intended to stand by itself -- just looking at that won't teach you HTML. (There are a lot of sites that do.) But the "Resources" link may have material that is helpful to you.

For the project you're indicating, one of the freely available site frameworks such as Joomla or Drupal might fit the bill (or be modified so that it does). If you want to do the job yourself, you should probably learn PHP as well as HTML and CSS.

On the other hand, if your goal is not to learn all this material, but just to get a working website so that you can get on with your veterinary interests, then you might look into paying someone to do the set-up and maintenance work for you.

[aaron horowitz]

Originally Posted by oheso

Aaron, is this something you want to learn to do by yourself (Point 1), or are you willing to pay to have someone do it for you (Point 6)?

I'd like to encourage you to learn as much about website development as you can, if that's your goal. But you should take baby steps (a few simple, static websites) before taking on a project on the scale you're indicating.

I'm just in the midst of teaching some colleagues and friends HTML, CSS and JavaScript, and I've set up a simple website with some information, here. The site is not intended to stand by itself -- just looking at that won't teach you HTML. (There are a lot of sites that do.) But the "Resources" link may have material that is helpful to you.

For the project you're indicating, one of the freely available site frameworks such as Joomla or Drupal might fit the bill (or be modified so that it does). If you want to do the job yourself, you should probably learn PHP as well as HTML and CSS.

On the other hand, if your goal is not to learn all this material, but just to get a working website so that you can get on with your veterinary interests, then you might look into paying someone to do the set-up and maintenance work for you.

Oheso, are you in Japan? If you are interested in teaching me how to set up my website or if you want to do it for me, I'd be interested. Let me know if it is possible to get this done with you in Japan and me in the USA. Let me know what you think that the cost would be. Aaron Horowitz