How to Make Your Own Website

Series Summary

Have you been dreaming about having an internet presence but don’t know the first thing about how to make a website? Sure, you’ve probably managed to navigate the basics of MySpace or Facebook, but now you find a pre-configured web page design and narrow functionality limiting—it stifles your creative vision. You long for radio buttons and drop down menus; you pine for a proprietary domain name, and for a CSS that isn’t based on creating epileptic attacks with a thousand flashing advertisements. You need the flexibility—and pride—that comes with creating your very own website, whether for personal use alone, as an online business, or for any other endeavor under the sun.

Well fret no longer, my friend. In this free online website design and development tutorial, our expert will show you just how to make your own website. He’ll walk you through the fundamentals of laying out your basic page flow design, how to create a homepage with umph, how to digitally edit and upload photos and artwork, how to make a banner, add video, make a drop down box, radio buttons, an email link, request forms, and even how to optimize your site with keywords that search engines like Google find you, thus driving more traffic to your very own web domain.

Video Transcript

"This is Rick Kennedy from Expert Village, showing you how to set up your own website. Today, we're going to show you how to set up your domain name, and also to get hosting, and from there, we're going to lay out a website on paper, just to set a roadmap on how we're going to design our site. Then we're going to go into designing our images and pictures for our website, and then from there we're going to go into designing our site. In designing our site, we're going to set up a home page, and then from there we're going to show you how to make a banner for our home page with all our links on it, and from there we're going to do hyperlinks, and set up hot spots for our site to navigate through a website. Then the next thing is going into setting up a product page, and setting up tables for our product page. We'll add drop boxes where we can put descriptions and sizes for our product. Then, we want to put an e-mail link into our site, so we can tell where our customers can reach us at. So sit back and enjoy How to build your own website."