i want to make a website. i know i have to get a domain name and webhosting and i was going to use godaddy. if i get a website designing software how do i connect that to godaddy. what software should i get. and what is html and how do i learn it and do i need it.
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I would download a free trial of Dreamweaver from Adobe:http://www.adobe.com/products/dreamweave…
I have used it for years. I also use go daddy. You will connect to your domain via FTP (ftp://yourdomainname.com). You can set Dreamweaver to push your files, so you would now need a client.
If you need help with learning, check out web monkey, they have a tutorial:http://www.webmonkey.com/webmonkey/front…
Try Site Builder Designs, you can create your own website. Domain name (as long as it is available), web hosting and web builder is ALL INCLUDED. You don’t even need learn html. Site Builder Designs has web design, themes, videos, images and mp3 music you can choose from their library or you can use your own. It’s fun and easy.
Try the TEST DRIVE and see how amazing it really is.
Have fun making your own website.
I hope that I was of value and gave you direction.
Hi! I’m glad to see you want to enter the wonderful world of the web! Sites like Freewebs are great for beginners, but eventually you’ve got to move up in the world, you know?
A dot com name, such as Yahoo.com is called a domain name. In order to get a website, you need a domain name! Be careful when choosing your domain, because once you register it, you’re stuck for a year. Regardless, domains are fun things to have, because you can make them your very own.
Another thing you need to get a website is a web server. A server is a computer that can cost thousands of dollars! Luckily, we don’t all need to buy servers. You can take the much more affordable, and easier, route by going with a web host. Web hosts are companies that have loads of these fancy computers, and then sell you space on them. So, for say $10 per month, these guys will let you use their servers, so you don’t have to get, and manage, your own!
When choosing a webhost, think about what you want out of your site. A webhost can very easily be a longterm decision, so I find it best not to go with the cheap guys. A friend of mine recently found out that his host doesn’t support one of the most popular Internet languages today, PHP.
In my opinion, the cream of the crop are BlueHost and DreamHost. Both offer support for all major languages, plenty of databases, and more room than you’ll probably ever need! So how do you choose?
BlueHost.com is great for the beginner, but can handle all the way up to the expert. They offer 1.5 TB (1,500 GB, 1,500,000 MB, or 1,500,000,000 KB!) of storage on their servers, and 15 TB of bandwidth (bandwidth, or transfer, is used up each time a visitor views a file). Keep in mind that a typical web page is only 5 KB or so, meaning unless you’re a top of the heap site, you won’t come close to this. They also offer a free site-builder for their customers, so you don’t need to know any coding! (For you techies, they also have PHP (customizable .ini file), Perl, Python, Ruby, and MySQL).
DreamHost.com gives less room – 500 GB of storage, and 5 TB of bandwidth. Still, I am a current customer and am not even using .5% of that. They’re a very honest webhost — anything that happens, you can find out about it on DreamHostStatus.com. Although they don’t offer a site builder, there are plenty available free on the web. However, my favorite thing about them is that they give me multiple domains, free. Market standards only provide for one free domain, although using the promotional code below, you can get three domains free, as long as you remain a DH customer. Additionally, you get $50 off!
Both hosts have excellent support, and would be great choices for the beginner to the expert (they offer custom cronjobs, guys!). I wish you good luck in choosing the best web host for you!
If you get web design software (see the link below ;-D ), that will save the files as “page.html” or whatever. That’s just how they’d be made if you were to hand code it. You then upload through an FTP program, there’s plenty of them out there.
HTML is a computer language used for the web. The software will generate a bunch of HTML for you.
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You get a FTP number and hook it up that way, at least that is what I do for the websites I run. The designing software has a PUBLISH button, which is amazing. it’ll ask for your domain name, FTP server and username and password! I hope it works out for you!If you get software I suggest Ewisoft. I love that program!
Godaddy web hosting sucks , I had to move all my websites to another web host http://aplis.net/ .
You are correct. For a professional website, you will need a domain name (cost is up to $35/year, but usually much cheater). You will need a web host to put the web pages on. Putting them on your home computer can be functional, but it will be poorly functional and you will have to have your computer on all the time. I strongly suggest you get the domain name right away. You’ll find that your top 50 choices for a domain name will not be available. So, you will want to know what is available and register it now (before someone else does). However, I strongly suggest you wait on the webhosting service until you have something for them to host. Make your web page on your own computer first.
You can use a web design program (called a WYSIWYG editor) or you can edit HTML by hand. Neither one is easier. You can spend weeks learning all the weird ways to trick the WYSIWYG editor into giving you what you want. You can spend weeks learning how to properly code up HTML to get what you want. Both take time and a commitment to learning. Personally, I do all HTML by hand because I like knowing what is on my page rather than having some stupid WYSIWYG program hiding it from me. Many other people disagree.
The most popular WYSIWYG program that I know of is Dreamweaver. Microsoft also has Frontpage. There are more. For HTML, just type “HTML tutorial” in Google. There are literally thousands of online guides to learning HTML. It isn’t hard. You only need to learn about 10 HTML tags to get going. Then, it is all copy and paste.
Eventually, you will have set of web pages on your computer that you like. Get a webhosting service. They will show you how to upload your web pages to your new web server (and they will attach your domain name to it). At that point, you are live. Someone can type in your domain name and they will see your web pages.
All in all, it isn’t really very difficult. If you go the HTML route, you will be rather unlimited in what you can do and, if you like it, you can start making web pages for other people.
You don’t necessarily need to learn HTML. You could use a free page designer, or a software suite like Dreamweaver/FrontPage which lets you create pages without HTML knowledge.
The way you get your pages onto your GoDaddy hosting will be via FTP. You’ll need an FTP client like the free FileZilla(http://filezilla.sourceforge.net) to upload your content.
the software you used to create the website should have a way of lounching it on teh net, then youll be asked for a domain etc..
you can use dreamwaver 8 its a realy good webpage creator .
you can download it 4 free using LImeWire or Ares regular. if you dont have them just google search them and youl find them 4 free.
good luck
Don’t spend your money just yet! Use a free host to play around with what you are learning, and then go from there…if you see more business (or whatever you are doing) coming from your site, then I would pay for web space and a domain name. I have had much kudos for http://www.000webhosting.com, it takes a few hours for them to check and see if you haven’t any illegal stuff on your site, but you get more features in the long-run.
HTML is the basic coding for web designing you can go to http://www.w3schools.com to learn some stuff…
You can use notepad for just typing code, if you want a Graphical Interface, I would go with Frontpage…Yet, I am very much into Open-Source, free stuff, but I have dialup, and my Vocational teacher gave me a copy of Frontpage…