Web site design
 

Have any of you ever made your own/How do you make your own web site? (I need "How to for dummies" type of info LOL) :)

I used to have my own business where I did website design and ran online/e-mail strategy games. Made some good pocket change doing it.

Hard to say where to point you to today. When I did it, I used hard-code HTML...hated the boxed do-it programs like Front Page. I learned as I went by finding websites that I liked, then viewing the source code and learning from it.

Maybe if you gave us a little more info on what you're trying to do and with what tools we could give better suggestions.

I used Dreamweaver when I was doing web pages. Like TF, I'd find pages I liked to see how they were put together.

However what I did was to save them, "file>save as>html" then open them in Dreamweaver and study how they were constructed.

Other web page programs include Front Page, as TF stated, and the Mozilla browser (not Firefox) has features for web design.

Another possibility is there are on-line sites that offer pre-built templates that you can modify and get a simple site together fairly fast. They also include getting your domain name and the server space to host your site. This would be by far the easiest as all the other methods have a fairly involved learning curve.

Let us know what you're trying to do and we can be more specific.

I'm just looking to make something for my farm (I raise/train horses). Thnx.

I too am guilty of swiping HTML from other websites to create my own. I found it to be an easy way to learn the code.

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THIS is how dumb I am; what is html? :sad:

Hyper Text Markup Language.

Go up to your view pulldown menu and view the source of this website (or any other one). That's HTML coding.

thnx; I seriously need to get that 'computers for dummies book' lol

Look at it long enough, and you'll eventually be able to read it. Kinda like the Matrix.

Viewing websites like this aren't really good for learning code. They are dynamically generated, and often times contain other languages like java-script. Since it is a computer generating these pages they can often look really complicated and messy to the human eye.

Honestly if you're just looking to throw something simple together get a program like "Dreamweaver" or even "Frontpage". Then find a host that you can upload these pages to. It is pretty simple really. Frontpage is part of Microsoft Office, you probably already have it! Play around with it, I'm sure you'll be able to figure out how to use it to create simple pages.

Now if you're looking for something more complicated, or generating dynamic content, be prepared to put in a lot more effort.