how should i go about building a website? Am new to it?

Answer 1

read up on HTML, CSS,

a good website for learning: www.w3schools.com

you can code in notepad but dreamweaver, homesite, or visual studio are ideal.

look up a hosting company... crystaltech is pretty decent...

if you want to repeat code across the site for navigation...
or create interactivity look into learning serverside code: PHP, ASP.NET, JAVA.

You can also want to look into JavaScript.

Answer 2

The first question is "Do you really want to do this all yourself?" - it's rather a big job, especially if you want a "dynamic" website, which would feature pages which have their contents change according to user actions.

First of all, you'll need the correct software to make the actual pages, which are made using a language called HTML. You can get software categorised as WYSIWYG - you get to make your page as if you were entering it into your wordprocessor. The other option is to use a simple text editor, and do the coding yourself, but this requires some learning time. You'll also need a language called CSS, and maybe even javascript. These are very useful to know, but this depends on your time.

Next up, you'll need if necessary to learn a SERVER-SIDE language, like ASP, PERL or PHP, these languages run on the website's hosting machine, and can be used to produce up-to-the-second and context-sensitive information. You may need to link these to a database, meaning configuring your files to work with a database.

You'll also need images, videos, and sounds if necessary. These have to be made, edited and converted.

All of this isn't actually too difficult, it's just time-consuming to learn in one go. If this is to be a one-off website, I'd recommend using some helpful WYSIWYG software, or paying someone to do this for you (if you know a computing student, you won't have to pay them too much, and they get to fill up their CV). If you intend on making many sites, I'd say go for some tutoring on this from a professional body, I don't regret learning all of this, it's still useful to this day, but it WILL mean a wait until you know enough to start your site.

Please, don't let me scare you, it's very rewarding to see your work up and running, but take into consideration your abilities, , needs, cost and time, and make the appropriate decision.

Answer 3

If you are very new to it, you can go out and purchase a Web Building kit for $30.00USD. This will get you up and running.
If you want to learn and you're not in a hurry purchase a how to book on CSS and HTML. Learn the codes first and come fimiluar with the terminology. Then take it from there.

Answer 4

Any document in MS Word can be converted to web page using the web converting wizard available in MS word. This is the simplest and easiest. Free web developing software like blue voda are available on the web. Your web site should include all ur details in the most presentable form with a few pictures. Too many pictures might make it difficult to download for people with dial up net connection. The web site suggested gives u more details.

Answer 5

There are SUPER, easy, and FREE website making opporunities on through geocities. I am a teacher and they had wonderful templates and easy to navigate pages to get me started. It's a wonderful option for those who are new to starting up a website. Just check out the geocities website for information.

Answer 6

Use NVU editor (www.nvu.com), it's free and wont tie you down to one method of editing. NVU pages can be transferrable to frontpage or dreamweaver html editor
SEE http://www.interkeys.com/htmleditor for more info on Premium HTML Editors (WYSIWYG)

For free hosting, try google superpages or yahoo geocities ,
its sort of free hosting, but you are limited to a subdomain on googlepages & geo has ads on your website - otherwise I would use http://www.interkeys.com/tophosts to get one for a few bucks a month with 500 GIG bandwidth and the rich with features

its up to you how developed a site you want and if you want to use your own domain name

Answer 7

Join an online course.

Answer 8

you should firstly learn the web designing procces.