Putting up your personal website is no longer a complex task. The advent
of CMS in the past few years has made building websites as easy as setting up
and maintaining a basic blog.
Content Management Systems are comprehensive frameworks that allow creating,
publishing and maintaining websites without having to write web pages in HTML,CSS,PHP.In
CMS major part of the scripting is automated.Drupal and Joomla are the most
widely used systems. For simpler websites wordpress can be used. All the three
systems are scripted in a powerful programming language, PHP, licensed under
the GNU Public License (GPL) and use the MySQL database to manage the contents.
How to set up your personal website
1. Rent a server from a web hosting
provider.
2. Access the control Panel of the
Web space.
3. Deploy any of the CMS by clicking
install options.
4. Use dashboard of CMS to set up
website.
5. Add contents and allow the CMS to
present it.
6. Maintain and update website using
simple graphical tools.
7. For support, contact Free Open
Source Software communities.
Source:The Hindu edition
