Basic Guide How to Create a Website

Nowadays, there’re many Content Management Systems (CMS) out there that you can get for free. With CMS, you can create a website easily without knowing web design or web programming skills. You just need to drag-drop, copy-paste, click, and type. Then your website is ready.

But almost all CMS only have the standard features to create a website, to customize your website – to become more professional and nice looking – you need to own web design and or web programming skills, or you can hire people to build and customize your site. If you can’t afford to hire web programmer or web designer, create your own website by yourself is the best choice. I’ve done this, all of my sites and blogs have been customized to fit my website or blog needs. I’m not satisfied with the standard features of CMS that I use.

The basic skill of website creation is HTML and CSS knowledge. Additionally, the basic web programming like PHP, ASP, etc also needed. But this is just optional, since there’re quite many web programmer and developer develop modules or plugins to customize and fit any website or blog needs.

Software for creating and designing websites

Any text editor software (like Notepad, etc) can be used to create a website page. But Notepad does not meet standard requirements to create a web page, since there’s inspection tool feature. To create a professional website, I recommend you using softwares that are designed for web design and web creation purpose, such as:

• Macromedia Dreamweaver – Software empowers designers and developers to build standards-based websites with confidence. Design visually or directly in code, develop pages with content management systems, and accurately test browser compatibility.
• Notepad ++ – Source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages.
• 1st Page 2000 – the tool that lets you create powerful, great looking websites faster, easier and on-time.
• Simple CSS – A Free CSS Authoring Tool

With these softwares you can create a website quickly, you can also learn while you create a web page with the inspection tools that have been integrated.

Source to learn CSS and HTML

You can find easily many sources and articles to learn CSS and HTML for free. Simply type on your favorite Search Engine (Google, Yahoo, or Bing) any term that you wan to learn. For example: css image, css background, css link style, css image transparent, etc.

And here the great source to learn HTML and CSS: Learn HTML – w3schools and Learn CSS – w3schools.

Paid sources to learn how create a website:

• Webmaster Video Course for Professionals. Professional webmaster online video course by Alex Flom’, including: Php, Css, Html, Ajax, Dreamweaver And Java Script.
• HTML and Dreamweaver For Beginners. 31 video tutorials on learning HTML and creating a website with Dreamweaver.
• Build Your Own Website. Build your own website with professional quality in minutes! This ebook/video guide is offers internet beginners step-by-step instructions to building their own website.
• Dreamweaver Interactive Video Tutorial. Discover everything you need to know to build your website step by step from start to finish with this Dreamweaver tutorial.
• WordPress Wizard 2.0. The ultimate WordPress and blogging coaching program.

Conclusion

There’re about three cases to create a nice looking, professional and powerful website:

1. Code editor software, as mentioned above.
2. Web design skills and knowledge; CSS, HTML, and as addition Scripting Language such as PHP, ASP, Perl.
3. Be creative. Internet and web technologies are growing rapidly. You must be creative to keep your site/blog up to date that accordance with the time demands.

Hope you enjoy this article and congratulations on building your site!