How do I build a website?

If you don't know anything about web design and just want to throw something up quick, I would recommend making a site on wix (wix.com I think) and spending the couple extra bucks for a domain name. If you want to have complete control over the website but don't want to do much programming, you can buy some web hosting on a site like http://bluehost.com (it's cheap nowadays) and install some pre-built software like Drupal (it still takes some good computer knowledge to install this but I'm guessing the Drupal website has a good explanation). If you want to do it from scratch, which is a very great skill to have but will obviously take longer. Just start learning HTML/CSS, then later maybe some JavaScript and PHP.

Take a class at a community college, senior center, etc.

Leprend nailed it. Also take a look.at.Wordpress.org which also is CMS that can make site construction easier and more compliant.

start by posting on letsrun, check.

you should also start to amass a collection of wood, nails, and duck tape. the new web design trends is also said to include the use of ball bearings and antifreeze, preferably prestone.

I've used www.homestead.com Not a CMS like Drupal but easy WYSISYG interface. You can do photo galleries, embed videos, etc. Very easy to get up and going without a lot of technical knowledge.

Tried your way Simple Pete but for some reason I was unable to build a website. Thank you everyone else for your responses. Very helpful

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Tried your way Simple Pete but for some reason I was unable to build a website. Thank you everyone else for your responses. Very helpful

Were you using a ball-peen hammer?

Hi these are the steps to be followed to build a website they are

1. choose the domain name related to the content in the site then register it through domain providers.

2. get hosting services through online providers to host your site.

3. Finally build the website.

you can get all these services at

http://www.thewebpole.com/

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Here you can register domain at affordable cost for which they provide free hosting and website builder services using which you can host and build your website easily. They provide good customer service and support.

Start by doing nothing letsrun.com did.

If you want to learn how to write the code starting with the basics, start here:

http://www.htmlgoodies.com/tutorials/getting_started/

Does my squirrel motif tie make me look like a doosh?

Buy a domain, get hosting and use a host that provides one click installs and install wordpress. That's the easiest and fastest way to get a site online.

And it will look like shit just like most of the wordpress sites.

Definitely suggest going with Wordpress. Find a theme that looks good, and does the rings you need. The default Twenty Twelve theme is actually pretty darn good.

coach d wrote:

And it will look like shit just like most of the wordpress sites.

Or he could spend 5-10 bucks and get a decent wordpress theme and it will look professional.

If your new to web design and not using wordpress you are doing yourself a disservice.

TLW wrote:

coach d wrote:

And it will look like shit just like most of the wordpress sites.

Or he could spend 5-10 bucks and get a decent wordpress theme and it will look professional.

If your new to web design and not using wordpress you are doing yourself a disservice.

I agree. I've worked pretty hard on a few websites, both static HTML sites and dynamic stuff - Wordpress is definitely the best solution available, esp for a non-coder.

+1 for wix.com

TLW wrote:

Or he could spend 5-10 bucks and get a decent wordpress theme and it will look professional.

If your new to web design and not using wordpress you are doing yourself a disservice.

And it will look like a piece of shit that you spent 5 bucks on to a piece of shit coder that can's do anything but wordpress.

I have a side business building custom sites for teams, clubs, and corporate enterprises when I have time in the summer when I'm not coaching. THIS (which I wrote the homepage for in the summer of 2011)...

...is not wordpress.

That is a couple thousand lines of onject oriented javascript plus Java/JSP/Oracle on the backend and other enterprise features like Adobe Test and Target. There's a reason why companies like this pay $50 an hour or so to people like me (and a LOT of people like me), hire ad agencies to design the look, and pay as much for professional graphics designers as they do for developers.

A website for a business is not a blog. It is a website, and if you want it to look professional, you need somebody who knows how to do the development properly, or you need to learn how to do it yourself (admittedly not easy, with a long learning curve). So you hire someone who knows what they're doing and you pay them a fair price for their work (NOT 5 bucks). Enterprise website development is BIG business these days, and not cheap.

If you build a "website" for a business it will look like a piece of shit business with a piece of shit "website."

Wordpress is for losers who don't know what they're doing.

No, that isn't wordpress .. but everything on that page could be easily handled via wordpress.At the same time, from the OP, I highly doubt the business will require anywhere near that level of navigation and coding.

A website for a business is not a blog.

This statement suggests you don't know a damn thing about wordpress. It's capable, and perfectly adapted for far, far far more than a blog.

Wordpress is for losers who don't know what they're doing.

and ^this^ statement suggests you're a tool. Why would you say something so ridiculous?