How do you create a website? What would be the first steps in doing this?

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And, does it have to cost money?
I am asking this because I want to get some hands-on experience and learning the ropes in creating websites. I want to do this in order to experiment and learn. I don't want to do this to be the next "facebook" or to create something which will have a million visitors.
I just want to have a basic idea of what it takes to build a website, and to know if it would cost money to do so? I now have DSL internet, so do I need to setup the website in my home computer? Or do I use some service elsewhere???
As you can see, I am very green at this :-/

Answer 1

So you want to learn to how to create a website, eh? :-)



No, it doesn't have to cost money, but if you want the best experience it does.



A website consists of three things.

1) Storage space which is accessible from the Internet.

2) a URL which routes visitors to your website.

3) Choose your language



And there are as many combinations of those three items as there were dollars in your pocket in 2010.



Let's examine # 1 first.

Publicly accessible storage space is usually referred to as hosted space. It is usually provided by a company referred to as a web host. There are many free web hosts that will let you create simple HTML-based free websites in exchange for their right to append advertising to the top and/or the bottom of your website. Additionally, Windows provides a free web server which you can install and configure on your own computer. If you don't require a ton of bandwidth to support your site, your ISP will usually ignore you (most ISPs require that you do not act as a server on the Internet). You can open port 80 to the outside world, but before you do, make D.MN sure that you have a software firewall, NAT, and a good antivirus software running. You can serve your website for free from your own computer.



And then there are the ones that cost a few dollars and promise unlimited bandwidth. Some like GoDaddy (the best registrar on the planet, but not the best web host) cost as little as $40/year. Crystaltech.com has an $8/month beginner's (economy) option as well. Personally, my business website and several of my customers' websites are hosted on http://www.crystaltech.com.



2) You need a URL to route your visitors to your website. The URL or uniform resource locator, is the Internet address of your website. It might be as simple as http://www.it.com or as complex as http://www.yahoo.com/users/~JohnDoe. A URL always starts with HTTP:// or HTTPS://. Then its followed by the domain, like Yahoo.com or Google.com. Some web hosts require the www. and others don't. Sometimes you can create a URL with something other than the www. in the first spot... such as answers.yahoo.com. Then comes the first slash. After the slash can be either a file name or a folder name (physical or virtual). For example, http://answers.yahoo.com/questions.



If you use a free web host, they will dictate to you what your base URL is. But if you want to create one of your own, then you need to start here:

http://who.godaddy.com/whoischeck.aspx?ci=8926



Domains are cheap. They cost about $10 per year from GoDaddy.com. A company that sells domain names is referred to as a registrar. I use GoDaddy for all of my domains. In my opinion they are the best registrar on the planet.



Okay, now we have a domain (part of the URL), a URL, and a web host. Now you only need to decide what you want to create, and how.



You can create your website using ASP.Net, ASP, PHP, Perl, C#, ColdFusion, HTML, DHTML, XML, or any of a dozen (or so) other environments. Please, don't let this step scare you off. Start with the client-side HTML and grow into DHTML and move toward server-side code such as ASP.Net, ASP, php, etc.



Client-side refers to web code which runs or is interpreted by the user's (web visitor's) browser. Server-side refers to web code which runs or is interpreted by the web server. Server-side code is usually dynamic in that it creates custom client-side code from database or other server side inputs.



I guess that's a good start.



Let me know if you have questions. I'm easiest to reach via Yahoo Answers email.

Answer 2

1 >> The First thing you'll need is a Site. Whether you want to start a Blog or Website, there are many offers available, some Sites offer Free Blogs, Free websites--while others offer a Host of packages that you can purchase. A simple search on Yahoo, Google, or any search engine will yield many results. Determine what you want from your site--Personnel, or Business. How Elaborate do you want your Site? Usually the Free Websites do not have as many Bell's and Whistle"s as the ones you will purchase.



2 >> BUILD IT!!!

Once you have your Website, you will have several Templates to choose from ( A template is what your Site will look like ). Most Programs have a simple Edit program designed to allow you to add Text, Images, Pictures, all kinds of goodies without the knowledge of HTML. You can have several pages dedicated to anything you want. You can change the content of your Site at any time---So don't be afraid to experiment with the Design and Content, until your Happy with your site.



3 >> FUN ADDITIONS!!!

There are Thousands of Websites that offer you the ability to create additions for your Site. You can create Button's, Bullet's, Widget's, place Video's on your Site, add Links--Place a Button on your Site that will send someone to your Blog or your Friends Site. As I stated --Don't be afraid to experiment---You can always change it!!!

Answer 3

If you want to learn to create websites the best place to start id say would be www.w3schools.com

Start learning about HTML and CSS they are the first two coding languages you will need to understand

in web site design. You could also check out Word press http://wordpress.org/ this makes it possible to create websites without writing any code and is quite powerful. Its also free which is good.



As for hosting your you will most likely have to pay for this. There are some free services out there but they are mostly not that good. Its mostly not to expensive.



Hope this helps



Trent

Answer 4

A good place to start is with a HTML tutorial: http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp

You can create .html files with a text editor like notepad or notepad++ (way better), save them on your computer in a folder somewhere, and then open them from the file menu in a web browser. This is a good way just to play around and see how it works.



When you get to the point where you actually want other people to see your web page, you need a place to put them that people on the internet can see. That's where web hosting comes in. Typically, you pay for a web hosting account and they provide you with space on their server where you can upload your web pages. The URL (uniform resource locator) would be something like http://somehostingcompany.com/yourname unless you paid to register your own domain name. You would edit the files on your computer and then upload them with a FTP or with a web-based control panel provided by the host.



There are sites that offer free web hosting, but most likely they would display some kind of ad banner in a corner of your page in return. If you wanted to operate your own web server from your home, there are ways to do it but you'd need to have a computer set up as a web server and it would have to be online 24/7 otherwise if it is offline then nobody can see you web page. You can get web hosting as cheap as a few bucks per month, so it isn't really worth it to run your own server.



I hope that helps you get started. Good luck!

Answer 5

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