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How To Start A Web Site
By Shaughn Prestige
Learning how to start a new website, especially if you haven't made a website before can be quite a challenging task. Before you go about starting a website you need to decide what you want your website for. Do you want it to sell your own products from? Do you want it as purely an information resource site for others to read, or do you want it to be a personal web site? If you are wanting to start a website for professional reasons, then you should probably seek a professional webmaster developer to make it for you. If you don't have much money to spend, consider hiring a talented school kid to start a new website for you. If you are only wanting to place information on it and do not require the bells and whistle features like an ecommerce payment system, there are now a lot of talented young students who have good design skills with the know how to create you a new website.
If you want know how to start up a personal website of your own, you may want to learn how to start building it for yourself. Starting and completing a website by yourself can be a rewarding achievement for you. Now that brings you another question. How do you go about starting one yourself? Do you learn HTML directly and write in notepad? - that's what I did from the early days, I borrowed an HTML book from the library and learnt from the samples and tutorials. I would start my own websites writing it in Windows NotePad, and displaying and then refreshing it in Internet Explorer. I still do this when starting and making websites today.
For a novice today who wants to know how to start their own website, there are now plenty of tools and HTML editors available to make the job easier to learn. FrontPage (bundled in MS Office by Microsoft) is a commonly used application that people use to start their own websites. And it can be rather easy to learn with and get a new webpage up rather quickly. You can also find plenty of other HTML Editors on Download FreeTrial. I suggest browsing through them and try a few out. There are some WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) website editing applications which allow you to start a website without any HTML coding. They are a bit like a MS Word drawing and writing tool where you can write text, insert pictures, draw tables, Bold or change text size, just like you might in a desktop publishing program, for it to then save the page in HTML format directly for you.
There are of course advantages and disadvantages with both methods (learning HTML vs using a WYSIWYG editor). WYSIWYG website tools can leave you with a very large sized webpage with lots of HTML code that is not really needed. It can result in a longer time for your website pages to download for the end user. People who have learnt and start their websites using HTML coding can generally optimize their website efficently for speed.
There are many websites out there with tutorials on how to start a website and do HTML coding. I suggest you do some search engine searches on HTML tips and techniques if you want to learn HTML. Some of the sites listed along the top right may help. Also, there are many website scripts out there that other website developers have shared. For example there are code samples for making form mailers on your site so your visitors can email you straight from your webpage. After starting a website, you might want to add things like Guest Books, or a discussion forum for visitors, to even website stats and counters. A good place to start looking for these tools is at Website Scripts
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