Please advise me how to build webpages

[MOON]

I have frontpage and dreamweaver. Can someone give me the lowdown on how to build a website? Is there a site that tells you how to do it, and simple to understand. I need it to be real simple to understand. I can create the pages, its the make it all work in hostrocket that I have a problem doing.

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[Dubbya]

Easy peezie!

head over to W3Schools Online Web Tutorials and be sure to add it to your favorites folder.

This is pretty much the premier "getting started" website. To start with, learn to "hand code" as you'll have a much better understanding of how HTML works and how to fix common issues without having to rely on software. Trust me, you can't always rely on software to do it right.

You'll want to learn HTML initially, however Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is pretty much required for a fast loading, easily edited, accessible and flexible website, so you'd do well to learn how to develop in CSS as well.

You might as well dump Frontpage if you've already got DreamWeaver. Quite frankly, DreamWeaver is a much better software.

In addition, be sure to get into the habit of coding with SEO in mind right from the start.

SEO, Where Do I Begin? By Incrediblehelp
SEO, Where Do I Begin?

All you need for Search Engine Optimization (SEO) By Webnauts
All you need for Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Good Luck!

[simonlogan]

Hit F1?

[hrvoje461]

There is many different ways to learn website building skils.
My advice is to get for example HTML in 10 min, (I'm sure you can download it for free somewhere) than go to some website that offer free templates, download one and open iit n notepad (or in dreamweaver code view) and than try to make some changes and play arround. You will see how simple it is once you try.
You can do same for CSS you just need to have some kind of css editor. You can download it for free too.
Once when you get basic skils you can read some more books on xhtml, css...
When you master html and css next step will be PHP.
You can also try some of free CMS for exemple Joomla. There is so many free templates and components tha you can download so you can use them to build great websites.

[jawn_tech]

These days there's also a lot of ways to get around creating a website without the coding, and host problems. You can find a host company that offers online web-building software bundled with hosting, so that all you have to do is customize and add content.

Or, some hosting platforms out there offer an automatic installation of a large number of content management systems (CMS), like WordPress or Joomla, as hrvoje461 suggested. Great stuff.

If you could get plugged into something like that, you wouldn't even have to worry about touching a database.

If you like Firefox as a browser, there's an FTP add-on called FireFTP which is free, where you can upload anything to whichever directory in your site you want, such as images, files, plug-ins, etc.

Those are just a few suggestions for taking a quick route to getting sites up that will end up being larger as time goes on. But definitely check out the links mentioned above that offer guidance about web development, because the more you know, the better off you'll be. Especially when it comes to SEO because when people start talking about things related to coding, you'd be in a better position to understand.