starting website

[wheelin 48]

is it hard to make a website how do i start one im not real computer smart

[Millard]

You should also checkout SharePoint. It is free and easy to use.

Good luck.

[TheKing]

It depends on whether you're interested in learning the underlying process of how to build a website. If you are, I'd suggest learning HTML, then CSS, and then Javascript or a server side language like PHP. There are plenty of tutorials out there on the web for beginners.

But if you're just interested in having a website without having to deal with any of the technical stuff, a prebuilt content management system such as Wordpress, as others have mentioned, is the way to go.

[nauticalmike]

Also just about every place that offers website hosting also provides a website creator that makes constructing a basic site very easy to do. It can be as easy or as difficult as you want it to be depending on the complexity and features you want your site to have.

[Tufelhunden]

As most have pointed out, there are a lot of options. If it's your first time and you just want to get something up fast, I highly recommend googlesites.

If you have microsoft office, go ahead and use publisher. If you go this route, you're going to need online storage space and a "file transferer". The space will most likely cost you (unless you are a college student - they usually will give you free space), while there are lots of free options for the secure file transfer protocol.

[paulsen]

Originally Posted by wheelin 48

is it hard to make a website how do i start one im not real computer smart

Wheelin,
I recommend starting with a blog to see how interesting you find it. I know a lot of people that start a website or blog, but then lose interest pretty quick. It can end up being a lot of work. And that said, I recommend picking something that interests you so you will enjoy working on it, and then start a blog. The great thing about a blog is other people can give you feedback, which I find helps with the motivation to keep writing. And finally, you can start one for free at wordpress (I'm not sure if it's the .com or .org version). Try it out! Good luck.

[markg]

Really, it depends on what you want to do. Is it for business or pleasure? Like Paulsen said if you just want to have a presence on the web to get your opinion out there – WordPress is a great way to start. If a business, then it gets a little bit more dicey.

Computer smarts doesn't have a whole lot to do with it because you can ramp up on that fairly easy once you know exactly what you want. Maybe the first step might be to decide "I want to sell fuzzy slippers with New England Patriots logos on them to Eskimos" or "I want a site with a message forum and the blog so I can get out the vote in 2012".

Knowing that people can help you fairly easily. If you want general information w3schools has that.

http://www.w3schools.com/

[Jonny Bell]

I don't think there's much point learning complex website programming codes anymore, It's worth using wordpress on a self-hosted blog. It doesn't have to be a 'blog' it can be any kind of a website but it means you can create a really professional website without having to spend 1-2 years learning lots of HTML/CSS/PHP - I personally have just been learning as I go along and now I find i'm pretty competent at HTML and somewhat at CSS

[jefflewis]

Starting a website is not at all difficult.. If you follow the guidelines properly for creating a website than you can easily get success... Between creating a website also depends on what type of website you want to start.. You may check out the given links. Here you will get good reference for that may help you in starting a website..

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the-best-web-hosting-service.com/blog/2011/02/how-to-start-a-website-the-easy-guide/
americanbar.org/groups/departments_offices/legal_technology_resources/resources/charts_fyis/websitefyi.html

[LaraDE]

There seem to be some real cracks here. Maybe you can help me?
I take some website-lessons for a while now and our teacher gave us the exercise to find out what kind of programming this site is: Secret Society and how to rebuild it in the easiest way. I thought it was Flash, but my classmate thinks it's not. What do you think? And how can I find out, if a site is flash or not? I am just a beginner and have to learn sooo much