The Webmaster's Bureau - Course Info.

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Take our free online course and build your own attractive, fully-featured website from start to finish. Learn exactly how the Internet works and how to create great websites with the minimum of cost and effort.

Please note: The course is being updated and in a period of transition. View articles from the current course here...

Find the original 10 week course modules here...

In order to take the original course, you will need:

A reasonable understanding of how to use computers and the Internet.

A PC, running Microsoft Windows (95 or higher)

An Internet Connection

An Email Address - to register and receive support.

A Credit Card (optional) - to buy a domain name, website hosting and setup a credit card processing account.

The Lessons

Lessons are available online to anyone.

Each lesson is designed to take about a week of your spare time, but it's up to you how quickly you work through the course.

You can cut and paste text from the lessons, and you can print them out - no restriction.

You can read the lesson plan / syllabus here.

All materials on this site are free for personal use.

If you feel this course has saved you time and money - there are many ways you can contribute to show your appreciation.

By the end of the course you'll have - and fully understand:

All the tools and services you need as a webmaster.

Your own domain name(s). Optional domain forwarding.

Cheap, reliable, fully-featured website hosting.

Your own attractive, purposeful, multi-page website.

Your own logo.

Real-time credit card processing and

Automatic order processing..

Master these Essential Internet Technologies:

HTML - It's actually really easy.

Unix - Your webhosting account is like having your own Unix machine on your desktop.

Telnet and FTP - How you access your webhosting account.

Relational Databases - Where the world's data is kept. Simple yet incredibly powerful, databases are a lot more fun than you might think!

SQL - How you program databases. SQL is intuitive and powerful.

PHP - An easy to use, interpreted language you embed in your web pages. An alternative to SSI.

PayPal - The cheapest and easiest way to get real-time credit card processing.

By the end of the course, you'll have your own fully-automated commercial website...

You'll understand exactly how it works, be able to change it, and fix any problems that might arise.

You'll be able to write your own programs and scripts, test and debug them.

You will be able to make technical decisions independently, and have the control only webmasters enjoy.

You will be able to create and run any number of new websites with the minimum of cost and effort.

Join us today - the course is available online to everyone but as a registered member you will be able to receive support, post comments, questions and answers.

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