building a website

[SRH]

i bought my domain name a couple months ago and i want to get a site up and running... i have only basic knowledge when it comes to any of that stuff...whats going to my easiest route? go daddy is who i bought it through... they have pre designed backgrounds but there not what i want to use really, i have a pretty good eye for design and layout and i know what i want...anyone want to enlighten me? i should of went to college dammit:p

[tjsdaname]

if you want it took look exactly how you want it, you will need to learn HTML and CSS

with any of the website "building" programs you will never get it how YOU want it.

[426kidz]

I have a website...I never have time to get it done or work on it more..its 4plymx.com you can chdck it out and see what it will be like if you do somethin close to it...and it is very hard if you have no background in it!

[SRH]

i have very limited expirience with html.. i would be ok with using go daddys website tonight... the thing is on the main page i want my company's logo in place of some bland text.... can i host an image on a site such a photobucket and insert it in place of the text?

back in the day i remember doing something like this on some similar free websites.... i can handle basics like that

company is pretty small at this point and i cant justify spending the money to have site designed that i dont expect to see too much of a return from at this time, if i can do it myself how i want on something fairly simple ill be thrilled

[tjsdaname]

im not sure about godaddys website tonight program. but I run my site through them, and I made it with apple's Iweb and it turned out pretty nice. I web is the best website building program there is.
district6-atv . com

if you want I could put a website together with Iweb for you.

[426kidz]

alright man, I was once in the spot your in, That site I built is with godaddy...do not so a website tonight thing way to annoying and basic. call the tech help and tnhey are wondeful and will walk you through how to set everything up....you need a brbb or somethin like that cant remmember the exact name but its a thing you have to download and it is much easier to instal pictures and everything!!call them

[Lasher]

Same boat...Go Daddy host and I am using basic HTML coding right now. Oh...filezilla works pretty good for getting files to your domain.

To edit HTML, I just open the file in notepad. There are other free HTML editors on the market but notepad works fine for me right now. From speaking with people at work, Dreamweaver is a nice tool but expensive if you want the click and drag route. I am a software developer but work in the Oracle world. In the next year or so I will be learning java for my job so no stranger to coding.

This is a great place to learn the basics of HTML.
http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp

As for style sheets (or CSS) once you learn basic HTML coding you can go to this website to get some examples of code for different effects http://www.dynamicdrive.com/

For my forsale page www.lashermxracing.com/forsale I used one of the example code for the buttons. (look cool in Google Chrome or firefox).

[QuadR8cer12]

wordpress is the way to go! SO easy to use and set up. There are MILLIONS of pre-built wordpress themes for you to get the website to look the way you want and thousands of plugins to do cool things on your website like link your FB or Twitter account to your website.

if you go to your hosting account on go daddy, they have an application service and they will install wordpress for free. Check out youtube videos they will answer any questions you have on using them. Its is the fastest way to post content on your website. I can update my sites from my cell phone its that easy. Adding posts and content is set up kinda like posting a reply on a forum. pretty cool stuff!

www.txatvracing.com texasconcretestain.com

two of my sites

[SRH]

man you guys are speaking some jibberish to me now lol

if i use html coding in the text section on website tonight will it produce an image if done correctly?


im going to have to do some serious reading the next couple days

[SRH]

Originally posted by QuadR8cer12
wordpress is the way to go! SO easy to use and set up. There are MILLIONS of pre-built wordpress themes for you to get the website to look the way you want and thousands of plugins to do cool things on your website like link your FB or Twitter account to your website.

if you go to your hosting account on go daddy, they have an application service and they will install wordpress for free. Check out youtube videos they will answer any questions you have on using them. Its is the fastest way to post content on your website. I can update my sites from my cell phone its that easy. Adding posts and content is set up kinda like posting a reply on a forum. pretty cool stuff!

www.txatvracing.com texasconcretestain.com

two of my sites


i will check out wordpress, i think i may have glanced through last night, what is the advantage to there templates vs. website tonights?

[Lasher]

SRH - use that link I posted (w3schools) and it will make it pretty easy to understand. It starts with no knowledge of HTML.

I spent a couple hours on Saturday night on that website making a page. But yes, if you put the PROPER code in the HTML file (notepad saved with .html extension) it will display an image.

Here is copy of simple code that will display an image
<img src="picture.jpg"/>

I am an old school programmer and I use software tools all the time at work (supposed to doing that right now instead of playing in here) but tools can be easy or overly complicated.

Learn basic HTML putting text and pics up, then move onto the harder stuff. I find a lot of those free builders just make things harder.

[Crystylephoto]

I've done some work for school in Adobe Flash and Dreamweaver, like this site:

http://www.atv-innovations.com/home.html

But from experience, Dreamweaver and Flash for of make things super complicated, that's why I've only really worked on that website haha But anything I've ever needed to know that I'm uncertain about, Google usually helps me figure out! If you have a mac, iWeb is awesome! Especially for anyone new to web stuff. If you look around on google you can find templates anywhere usually that you can edit in a hand full of different programs, or just ask around like on here, I've learned the most info about design stuff from asking people! :)

[426kidz]

you will never get anywhere with website tonight...trust me...call them and tell them waht you wanna do and they will walk you through it there open 24/7, take it from someone wo has a up and running site!

[Ruby Soho]

i used to use photoshop to design my layout. you can pretty much make an entire page with it cutout with html and all.

i haven't done that in so long though the only html code i remember is < center> :huh

[Wesjay400ex]

I am the web master for my company in addition to the marketing department (www.Hallscorp.com). I have done all sorts of web design and have to say that no pre-fabricated sites are going to get you to where you want to go.

Your best bet is to use the site links that were provided above by Lasher, get a HTML editor and work off of a basic website and learn by trial and error:

Don't use Notepad to edit. It’s too confusing. If you want to learn to code yourself use Dreamweaver from Adobe. It will assist in some basic commands and it allows a split view so you can code on top of the editor window and see the preview of the web page on the bottom or see all code or all we bpage.

Find a basic site that you like, go to the View button on the top of the browser, and select Page Source. This will give you the coding for the website. You can copy it into a HTML editing program and start to manipulate the code. (No Picture links / Flash will work since you don’t have the files or correct file paths). But this is probably the easiest way to learn with little to no knowledge, good old fashioned reverse engineering.

[426kidz]

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