Need help making websites.

Can anyone please give me a headstart into learning website-making?Im currently enrolled in E-commerce class and one of its requirement is to make a website for an imaginary business. I don't know where to start. I tried google and found out of either using a web-making tool or learn HTML.For webmasters...how should i start? please help me.

i suggest getting a program called dreamweaver (by macromedia) because it works the same as frontpage but its easier to learn...however the way i see it is you can use notepad and save as html files but alas you would need to learn html . you can use microsoft offices frontpage . but tbh its a pretty shotty job and also requires html knowledge *i think*i do alot of website building it does get easier if you learn html ...
oh and to get started im pretty sure on a web tool or in notepad the code is<html>
<head><title></title>
</head>
<body></body>
</html>
that will give you a title in the window eg "ecommerce project"-mozilla firefox /internet explorer\
and body textultimately i suggest getting a web tool as its a project , you may not have the time to learn html

Yer, I use notepad. But its a hard way of doing thing. I suggest getting a program as well :) use dreamweaver. However i dont think its free.Or you could download a good looking template from a site of your choice and right click, ope with Microsoft work. Then edit it using th basic microsoft skills. When you save it make sure its a .htm or .hml i am pretty sure. I havnt done it in a while.

don't use a program. ESPECIALLY not a microsoft one. the code wysiwyg programs produce ranges from poor to downright appalling.Start off by learning HTML/XHTML and CSS. www.w3schools.com is the place to start.

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Loonylion · #4don't use a program. ESPECIALLY not a microsoft one. the code wysiwyg programs produce ranges from poor to downright appalling.Start off by learning HTML/XHTML and CSS. www.w3schools.com is the place to start.

Loony,could you knock one up for him and he could pretend he made it

Replying to #6

I don't have the time to, I've got at least 6 of my own projects on the go at once.

Learning HTML etc. Gives you a much better understanding of how websites work in general.
I personally use notepad++ which is pretty much and upgraded notepad.

If you want to learn HTML (it is very complicated but I learned half of it in a month! But it doesn;t mean I am good at it) Go get a book about it, if not, go to w3schools.com. W3 is techinicallt the guys that made the Internet, web pages and w3.com is also the first search engine! (I think) Either way, you don;t need to learn HTML (entirely). Look at me! Use a good web Service and use their templates and in 2 weeks, I was able to someone make it good!
My site that is currently usable but it kinda sucks because I don;t have a lot of time to do it.
www.windows7pc.ucoz.com
If you know how to use UCOZ properly, please help me because, well I'm new but I know the basics! (like the basics of HTML!)
Good luck with your site!
P.S. Is copying articles and modding it a bit (from Wikipedia) bad?
Is using an article from somewhere else but it gives a short description and a link to the actual source illegal? I need some help.
(Yes, I will make a different post for this!)

don't use a website creator. Seriously. I'm redoing someone's business website because it was done with a website creator provided by their host, and the code is easily the worst I've ever seen. I've already reduced the size of the html file by half simply by removing redundant code

I also have a website, and I strong recommend not to use a programme. Do it in scripting!Step 1. Learn HTML
Step 2. Learn Java
Step 3. Learn CSS
Step 4. Learn PHPI'm currently on step 3!

java is pretty much useless for websites.

Yes I know that, but it's good to learn the basics first!

Java isnt useless for websites. You'd be surprised at the number of websites that use java on a regular basis.

Yea, especially the Java website! LOL

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Exactly! So take that loonylion :P lol.

java does not make a website, it makes applets that can be used on websites. And its a bad idea because it needs the java bloatware runtime installed on the user's PC.

Dude my personal advice to you is to learn Html, and ccs... then you can start working with it

yes, that's what I'm saying:"For some advice on making a website with downloads, you'll really want to learn html, css and javascript first. Play around with it, have some fun with it and don't be too serious about. When you feel comfortable with javascript then move on to PHP and start building up your website; that's really all you need."And if that's not good enough for you, know this, these were Seph's words to me!

Java and javascript are NOT the same thing. Javascript is a client side scripting language, java is an inefficient programming language