Create A Website Is Very Simple
Sent by Tem Balanco on July 26th 2008 source
As someone who has done web design and web coding for the last 8 years for a wide variety of clients, I have come across a wide variety of clientele who have the assumption that to create a website, one must have a degree in design or programming and far more experience than they have or hope to possess. Quite the opposite is actually true, and creating a website can not only be fun, but much easier than you think.
If you have a design in mind before you begin to create a web site, it can really help to speed the process along. Although not essential, especially for a very basic site, graphic software can be helpful. However, if you don't have the software available, there are numerous free sites that will help you to do something as basic as resizing an image, or more advanced, such as animating your graphics or changing a color photo to black and white.
When you create a website, there are a wide variety of services across the internet both for free web hosting and for paid web hosting. For someone who is new to creating sites, it may be more beneficial to set up with free hosting initially as you learn the skills to create better and better sites. The benefit in using free hosting services is that many of these sites also have free HTML editors.
For those who are novice website designers, the best HTML editors are WYSIWYG editors. This acronym stands for "what you see is what you get". This is another way of saying that as you proceed to layout a page using WYSIWYG software, it will appear in final published form as it appears on the screen at the time you're working on it. Such accurate and graphical representation is far more convenient and simple than coding a site by hand.
As your skill with both coding and website design increase, you may think about changing to software other than the free WYSIWYG editor to build your sites. There are some editors available that combine WYSIWYG with viewing of the code that you use to create your website. As you gain competence in more complex levels of coding, these types can be more efficient than your standard WYSIWYG editor.
Regardless, learning to create a website is lots of fun but also challenging. As your skills develop in web design, you may be able to assist others in developing their websites for compensation. I began to do this when I was in high school and I now design webpages full-time. Web design does require patience and experimentation but it is also fun to do and something many people can learn.
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As someone who has done web design and web coding for the last 8 years for a wide variety of clients, I have come across a wide variety of clientele who have the assumption that to create a website, one must have a degree in design or programming and far more experience than they have or hope to possess.