How to Learn How to Make My Own Website

Learn to Make Your Own Website

Become skilled in making your own website using online education resources for learning web design basics as well as new techniques. Increase your present website design abilities with specialized tutorials and find employment in the growing world of online business as a web designer or managing a company website. Create an Internet business of your own along with learning to make your own website and work for yourself.

Things You'll Need

• Internet access
• Web design software
• Web hosting provider

Instructions

Getting Started with Tutorials

1. Review the available tutorial websites online to determine their level of information, ease of comprehension and free lessons versus paid ones.
   Find one or more that matches your criteria as a beginning web designer and focuses on web development basics.

2. Take some time and go through one or two lessons on the tutorial sites you've chosen to get a feel for their teaching style, related educational media and degree of difficulty.
   Consider the number of lessons, their pacing and time required to bring you to the point of creating your website in evaluating your website development tutorial choices.

3. Review the documentation, tutorials and online resources provided with your web development software. All web development programs have online resources and you can integrate these with other web design tutorial sources to increase your learning.
   Create a realistic schedule of consistent engagement with and study of the online tutorials and additional learning materials you're using.

Focus on the Fundamentals

1. Begin your study of developing your website by concentrating on the verbiage used in web development, the process of how a website is found, viewed online and the "behind the scenes" processes of how the Internet works.
   Learn the essentials of editing graphics and formatting them for web pages.

2. Proceed to learning HyperText Markup Language, abbreviated HTML, which is the basic language of webpage structural code and comprises a webpage's "skeleton."
   Use the examples and demonstrations included in many website design tutorials to see the results of applying the various HTML elements on a web page.
   Create several simple HTML web pages to gain skill in coding with it and become familiar with those HTML elements used most frequently before advancing to web page styling procedures.

3. Study the rudiments of Cascading Style Sheets, known as CSS, used for laying out web page elements in a flexible and consistent manner.
   Continue to learn more advanced HTML elements asong with your knowledge of CSS styling to progress in developing your own website.
   Practice laying out web pages using these combined techniques.

4. Bring it all together when you've mastered the basics of HTML and CSS to design your own website, one page at a time.
   Upload your completed webpages to your hosting provider's server and view your new website with the pride of learning and accomplishment.

Tips & Warnings

• Study one of the popular blogging platforms, such as Wordpress or TypePad to create a blog or website using Content Management System technology incorporating a database.

• Your Internet Service Provider may also offer tutorials in basic website development as part of your account.

• Look into your local community college or university extension for classes on website development and related areas.

• Beware of any school or other online educational service that guarantees you employment if you pay a fee.

References

• Sitepoint: Beginner's HTML
• Build-Website.com: Build Your Own Website

Resources

• W3Schools: Full Web Building Tutorials
• Google Directory: Web Design Tutorials
• The Personal Web Design Degree