How to Create a Website
Anyone can create a website!! Yes - that includes YOU!!
Creating a successful website is a lot more difficult.
A successful website is one that receives traffic from the search engines, provides valuable information or products to its visitors and inspires those visitors to link to and share the website with friends and associates.
A successful website requires research, planning and a lot of hard work.
Our tutorial is designed to give you a basic understanding of the research, planning and construction of your website.
Creating a Template
We've added a brand new section to this website: Learn how to create your own website template using divisions and CSS (style sheets).
We've developed a very simple method, so that even beginners can learn to create their own designs.
Use it along with our HTML tutorial and you'll have all the information you need to create the website you always wanted. Start Here
Choosing a Website Building Tool
If you want complete control over your website you'll need to learn HTML code. You can design a simple web site with just a few basic tags.
1...Use NotePad if you want to type your code by hand.
2...Use an HTML editor like AlleyCode if you want to add code to pages by clicking buttons.
3...You can also use a WYSIWYG editor (What You See Is What You Get) to build your website. This method will not require you to learn as much HTML code. To try a good free one, get the Seamonkey Suite of tools at Seamonkey-project.org.
4...There are also online website builders.
Most online website builders are included in a package purchased from a web host that supplies site building tool, email accounts, file management tools, space on a server for hosting and other web site resources.
No matter what method you choose, I recommend learning enough HTML to at least create a simple web page. Go to the tutorial Building a First Page.
HTML tutorial
Visit our Free HTML Tutorial and learn to create a website with HTML code.
Choosing a Web Host
Most people choose shared web hosting when they start looking at web hosts. Shared means you share the same server with hundreds or thousands of other websites. The word UNLIMITED is just a sales pitch used by these hosting companies. Shared hosting is cheaper, but the low cost usually means sub standard customer support. For some web hosts to avoid, see Compare Web Hosts.
A Word About CMS and Blogging
If you are planning a website that will require membership and interaction with visitors, you may want to consider a Content Management System or BLOG.
A CMS like Joomla! or BLOG like WordPress requires Very Minor Coding Experience and can be easily installed on your web space using a script installer provided by your web host. Joomla! is also well documented with downloadable manuals and visual tutorials. WordPress' features and documentation are improving on a regular basis.
CMS offers built in features like membership registration, site search, user feedback, polls and other interactive tools.
We now promote Spruz.com. Requires no installation. Just sign up for a free membership and start your website. Spruz even lets you create your own designs.
