How to build a website?

If you want to learn the hard way, like saden said take some classes or pick up some books and teach yourself. Honestly though, with blogs and forums there's not much need to go that route, but that's up to you of course.

Plus you can customize the hell out of software like WordPress (http://wordpress.org/).

I remember when I thought I was the man for knowing FrontPage, I was a pioneer among my peers...now I have to explain to people what that once was.

Create an app with a social game element, skip the website

a CMS system would def help

wordpress is one of the easier ones, joomla is decent, drupal is great if you hate yourself

I remember when I thought I was the man for knowing FrontPage

oh man, not even sure what to say haha

I honestly never tried that type of program.. well I lied, I tried it once but it cluttered up my code so much I went back to hand-coding the same day

did you follow up with dreamweaver?

Do you want a dynamic website or a static website? Static site is pure HTML and no user interaction goes on, where as in a dynamic website you will have to write back-end code that handles user requests and displays data from another source (i.e. database). Building dynamic website from the ground up is no small feat and if you want to do that I would suggest you pickup a few books (on Ruby on Rail, Javascript, HTML, and CSS). Better yet, take a course on the subject at your local community college.

I think that since im completely new to this that I should start off easier than building something from scratch. I guess you see tons of things out there like:

http://www.homestead.com/~site/hslo/website/features.ffhtml (http://www.homestead.com/~site/hslo/website/features.ffhtml)
http://www.godaddy.com/hosting/website-builder.aspx (http://www.godaddy.com/hosting/website-builder.aspx)
http://www.intuit.com/website-building-software/?pd=t&s_cid=CJ (http://www.intuit.com/website-building-software/?pd=t&s_cid=CJ)

Has anyone used any of these or others before with good results?


Here is a review site that I looked at:

http://www.buildwebsite4u.com/building/free-website-builders.shtml (http://www.buildwebsite4u.com/building/free-website-builders.shtml)

I have my domain with 1 & 1 so that’s likely who I was going to start with, then I decided to ask thewarpath. So my thoughts are building a website with one of these cookie cutter builders might teach me a little bit especially without knowing anything about css, javascript or html. I want something uncomplicated to start out with. But im completely ignorant when it comes to these things so maybe im over thinking it, and should just get started with the builder 1and1 offers?

Plus you can customize the hell out of software like WordPress (http://wordpress.org/).


I think this is what im looking for. Obvisouly i dont really know how to ask the right questions with this stuff......

I think that since im completely new to this that I should start off easier than building something from scratch. I guess you see tons of things out there like:

http://www.homestead.com/~site/hslo/website/features.ffhtml (http://www.homestead.com/~site/hslo/website/features.ffhtml)
http://www.godaddy.com/hosting/website-builder.aspx (http://www.godaddy.com/hosting/website-builder.aspx)
http://www.intuit.com/website-building-software/?pd=t&s_cid=CJ (http://www.intuit.com/website-building-software/?pd=t&s_cid=CJ)

Has anyone used any of these or others before with good results?


Here is a review site that I looked at:

http://www.buildwebsite4u.com/building/free-website-builders.shtml (http://www.buildwebsite4u.com/building/free-website-builders.shtml)

I have my domain with 1 & 1 so that’s likely who I was going to start with, then I decided to ask thewarpath. So my thoughts are building a website with one of these cookie cutter builders might teach me a little bit especially without knowing anything about css, javascript or html. I want something uncomplicated to start out with. But im completely ignorant when it comes to these things so maybe im over thinking it, and should just get started with the builder 1and1 offers?

no no no no no (in order)

I think this is what im looking for. Obvisouly i dont really know how to ask the right questions with this stuff......

That's what I was saying earlier. With add-ons for blogs you can do pretty much anything you want. I would look into going that route if I were you.

Or how about this, what kind of sites do you want to model yours after? Can you show us some examples? Then we can give you a better idea of what you need.

oh man, not even sure what to say haha

I honestly never tried that type of program.. well I lied, I tried it once but it cluttered up my code so much I went back to hand-coding the same day

did you follow up with dreamweaver?

You know it! But I mean this was like 12 years ago

Yeah that's about when I started too.. 99 or 2000 I believe, so a year or two later

notepad or cutehtml (amongst other editors), photoshop 4.. man I thought that I was boss

I ran and contributed to a handful of popular e/n websites

things were a lot more fun back then