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Lucifer · 06-22-2010, 06:03 AM

Not necessarily.

Wordpress is of course, one of the easiest ways to start, but some good resources are:

DIY Web Design Education

Web Design Video Tutorial for Beginners

Net Tuts Plus: Inspiration, Tutorials and More

W3 Schools - Thousands of Web Site Building Tutorials, All FREE!

I'd start with the last one first, a basic primer for beginners on HTML and CSS. If you want to spend a bit of money, the web design video tutorial for beginners is great value for $20. All you need to start making websites is a basic text editor, like notepad which comes standard on the PC.

You can even create a webpage in as little as 10 seconds:

1. Open notepad
2. Type the following:

<head>
<h1>
Hello World
</h1>
</head>

<body>
This is my first webpage!
</body>

3. Save it on your desktop as:

index.html

4. Click on it, and it will open in your browser.
5. Congratulations! You've just created a webpage. Of course, it's not live on the internet and it isn't very fancy, but it's a start, right? Most designers started out with a page just like that.

Good Luck!

06-22-2010, 06:03 AM	#4 (permalink)
Lucifer Husband of Seamaiden Location: Nova Scotia	Not necessarily. Wordpress is of course, one of the easiest ways to start, but some good resources are: DIY Web Design Education Web Design Video Tutorial for Beginners Net Tuts Plus: Inspiration, Tutorials and More W3 Schools - Thousands of Web Site Building Tutorials, All FREE! I'd start with the last one first, a basic primer for beginners on HTML and CSS. If you want to spend a bit of money, the web design video tutorial for beginners is great value for $20. All you need to start making websites is a basic text editor, like notepad which comes standard on the PC. You can even create a webpage in as little as 10 seconds: 1. Open notepad 2. Type the following: <head> <h1> Hello World </h1> </head> <body> This is my first webpage! </body> 3. Save it on your desktop as: index.html 4. Click on it, and it will open in your browser. 5. Congratulations! You've just created a webpage. Of course, it's not live on the internet and it isn't very fancy, but it's a start, right? Most designers started out with a page just like that. Good Luck! __________________ I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls. - Job 30:29 1123, 6536, 5321 Last edited by Lucifer; 06-22-2010 at 06:13 AM..