Designing my own website

alyth

hi - wonder if anyone can advise me, I'm looking to create my own website, just a few pages, nothing too exciting, just basically a few pictures and text, but haven't a clue how to go about it - do I use free space from my ISP, or buy a domain name and try and host it through that company. Should I try and learn a web design package such as dreamweaver? Apologies for what is probably a stupid question, I did a search but couldn't find anything to point me in the right direction. Thanks.

wonka

One tool I came across a few days ago is Google Pages. OK, you have to sign-up for a Google account, but this is no hardship, it's free. It is the simplest tool I've seen so far for creating a basic (but flashy) web page. Once you've created a page, it will be instantly available over the Internet.

I'm sure other people will recommend other tools such as Dreamweaver, Frontpage, etc, and these are great, but it may take just a little bit longer to get the hang of.

Gorgeous_George

alyth

I uthe Microthoft FrontPage for my 'thimple' thite. You may ath well learn a recognised (that's enough of the lisp) package and I have heard good things about DreamWeaver.

I use my free space. It's fine as a starter but you may wish to spend money especially if you wish to create a more advanced website.

In FrontPage, the Help menu is my best friend and Google helps at times.

Best of luck.



GG

black-saturn

I built mine through this site:

http://www.mrsite.com

and it's been fine.

alyth

really appreciate all your replies, broadband is being installed on Monday so will look at the sites over the weekend and try and start my simple webpages!

Babylonian_2

Amazon are selling the Mr Site package for £24.99 at the moment