How to make a website?

Question

How do I make a website?

Answer 1

You can create a free website with Microsoft Office Live Small Business - http://starturl.com/officelive . It has 500mb of storage and no ads. It has a free online web design tool that allows you to create web pages without coding. Currently, MS is offering a free domain name for the first year.

Answer 2

You can find step by step guide on how to make a website at website like http://www.aplis.net/ .

Answer 3

Learn HTML and CSS

Answer 4

The process of making the site can be simplified by WYSIWYG editors such as dreamweaver. But it would be recommended to learn hand-coding as well, since such editors, or incorrect usage of same, is known to produce invalid code, and bad cross-browser combatility.

You can learn how to hand-code your pages at websites such as http://www.w3schools.com/ and http://www.brugbart.com/

Its recommended to atleast learn HTML combined with CSS, and then forget about all the deprecated attributes and elements used for presentation.

Its also important to validate your code, for this you can use the w3c markup validator at: http://validator.w3.org/ - The W3C Markup Validation Service

Along with the CSS validator at: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/ - CSS Validator

Many website hosts also got their own free templates, as well as their own WYSIWYG editor, the templates may help when aiming to get valid coded pages.

An example of a few free hosts would be:

http://members.freewebs.com/ - freewebs

http://geocities.yahoo.com/ - geocities

http://www.weebly.com/ - weebly

http://www.tripod.lycos.com/ - Tripod

But i would suggest you register a domain, this can be done through companies like http://www.one.com/ and http://www.godaddy.com/ but there are a lot of such, i suggest you simply read about them at http://www.webhostingtalk.com/ where you can read reviews of the individual hosting solutions.