How to make a website!

So lets say that you want to showcase your products, show off what you made, or simple have a page of your own. The best idea is to create a website! A website is different from a blog or an instructable, it provides unlimited (or somewhat limited) space where you could put anything you want! creating and maintaining a website could be a hobby, or if you want to go a little further a full-time job. There are 2 main ways to create a website, Read on to learn more........ and stop by my website to see an example http://techreviewerblog.blogspot.com/

Step 1: Designing a website

Design a website! You could use Microsoft Publisher, Dream weaver, Adobe Flash, even notepad! You website should include these things:
- a menu bar
- a top header (with logo)
- a space on each page for the body
- a bottom navigation bar
- a privacy policy and/or copyright info
- a home button
- a search bar

Save the file, and publish it as index.html

Go to http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp to learn more about html

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Comments

[ewood5]

Yes, making your own website is better than blogspot or blogger because it's 100% yours. A good video tutorial series is this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyIeXnD_1Ho
Goes through domain, webhosting, installing WordPress themes etc.

[ths]

you know, you should add more about html code, specially if you want to teach your reader how to create a website, sure they can use frontpage or dreamweaver, but you also said that they can use notepad, it will be funny to see someone trying to understand what to wrote in the notepad to make it as a webpage. you could show a simple hello world webpage with the source (showing tag like html, body, a link and maybe an image tag). just to get them a feel of what a page look like in the background, and maybe they will look at other source to try to figure out how to create stuff by themself (thats how I learned html, by looking at other website)

[Computothought]

http://w3schools.com/ and http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/ good places to start for web programming.

[microman171]

Depending on the target audience, it doesn't have to be online 24/7. I host an apache server on my machine which I am using for the purpose of testing. Rather than pay for a domain and then start creating the website, I decided to create it locally first. It also means I can show people with a link etc.

[comsa42]

Very interesting reply, however i believe you are wrong. When you create a site on a local network, you could only show it to somebody on the same network. If you send a link to somebody not within the local network, then they will either see someone elce's site, or they will get a message saying they cant connect. (This instructable is still being edited for more detail.

[microman171]

I guess I should mention the port forwarding of port 80, and the DNS server for a friendlier link. I have been doing this for a long time, and it works well. DynDNS and noip both make reasonable DNS servers. By local network, I was referring to where it was hosted, locally. Not where it could be displayed, which is world wide.

[comsa42]

I use DynDNS too :D