how do I learn to design a web page for a business with limited computer skills and web knowledge?

Question

very basic skills, but am quick learner.
Would ideally like to learn how to display an informative site with photos, and how to make the site available to view

Answer 1

If you're a quick learner and motivated, do what I did.

Basic Page Functionality:

Visit www.w3schools.com and inhale the tutorials for html and css, and immediately start playing with the basic concepts. The great thing about this approach is you don't even need a web server, just a text editor (notepad, vi, whatever) and a web browser.

Once you've established a basic understanding of how HTML and CSS work (which shouldn't take more than a couple weeks) branch out into javascript. Again w3schools has excellent beginner tutorials. Play around with client-side scripting and Dynamic HTML techniques a bit, get a feel for what's possible with these techniques.

Once you've got basic page layout and simple scripting in the bag, start reading forum posts and articles, read other people's code snippets, hunt down example code for the kind of things you would like on your website and examine them. Refer to basic tutorials on the web until you understand how these code examples work. Being able to read other people's code is an invaluable skill and practicing this is an excellent way to learn how to do all kinds of things you may not have thought of. You may also consider checking out the forums at webdeveloper.com.


Design Basics:

Investigating a few beginner articles on color usage, palette selection, and basic layout is apt to have a huge impact on how professional your pages look. It's also a good idea to take a look at some of the things other websites are doing. Make a note of what looks good, what doesn't, and why.

Taking it to the next level:

Adding a server-side scripting language (PHP is always a good choice for beginners) and at least a basic understanding of working with databases are two powerful tools in any professional web developer's arsenal. It makes the difference between designing fairly flat content and being able to write full fledged web applications. Addmitedly this may be totally outside the scope of your current project, and if so, cheerfully ignore these as html css and javascript should be more than enough to get simple pages looking pro.

Answer 2

It depends on what you want the site to do.

You should at least get started learning html.

A search for 'html tutorial' will pull up several great sites.

If you want to do a dynamic website and use forms you'll need to pick up a little bit of programming or use a WYSIWYG editor like Frontpage.

If you want to email with specifics about what you want to do with your website I can tell you some of the differnet paths you can take and let you make the decision on what you want to do/learn

Answer 3

Many web hosts provide tools for the amateur to create pretty good looking websites. But you could pay a professional to to it for you at a pretty low cost. A site such as you suggest could be put up for about 350 bucks including the webhosting.

Answer 4

W3schools, Webmonkey, Devguru have free simple tutorials for learning HTML, PHP, JavaScript and all features required to design a website . More information at-

http://tinyurl.com/o5e26

Answer 5

I would never trust HTML templates, as someone suggested. Every template I have ever looked at has been coded poorly, and often completely wrong.

Someone suggested W3CSchools; that's a great resource, though personally I like solid books. I would strongly suggest HTML and XHTML the definitive guide, published by O'Reilly.

Answer 6

You need not be a computer expert for you to design a website, you just have to understand how photoshop,flash and other animation software, basicaly you need to study this on like short programs, I should say there are local IT school that offers this program.... there you can see how it works step by step, I graduated web designing and I have a limited knowledge in computer bec. of my course . not really related to touching computers ..

Answer 7

You can use ms word to design a web page and save as a html

Answer 8

I would use a template already designed... here's one of many sites:

http://freesitetemplates.com/

google search on "website templates" for others. Just download and fill in your company info.

Answer 9

if this is for a business you should have it done professionally. it is well worth the money. they will also submit it to many search engines for you. they know tricks that you and i have no clue about.

web designers
http://www.google.com/search?q=web+designers

Answer 10

get a porgram to help u