How do you make your own website?

[Rich]

I'd like to be able to post maybe, a few 100 pictures of concerts and events I go to. I'd also like to post reviews of albums and movies. I'd like to have all of this orgnized and look nice.

If you can wait til the weekend, (i'll be in MD til fri night and working all of sat.) I'll give you some space on quack-quack.net and you can upload whatever you want there, be it the pictures or .htm files.

[Calliander]

no the space background and <font size="+3">comic sans ms</font> fonts

edit: like so - http://www.versuscity.net/ironplant/

I love that page. You know, SpoDaddy used to have a web page with the space background and Comic Sans. It ruled.

[Giltch]

And don't forget to download NoteTab Light. It's free and makes HTML easy if you're still learning. But probably its best feature is that it allows you to preview your page in your browser without having to upload it onto your server. Very handy. I use it for all my pages.

[Anarkex]

well, my website does suck, but i know how it works. to make a website, the bare-bones minimum you need to own is:

1. a working computer
2. a notebook to write stuff in (so you don't forget what HTML tags do.)
3.an account on a webhosting site (doesn't have to be anything special, freewebs.com is what i use)
4. Notepad, and a program to create images on.

Then, you need to go down to your local library and pick up some books about:
1. HTML
2. Javascript (i don't bother learning plain Java, it's confusing.)

Then turn on notepad, open to the first page of the HTML book, and work your way from there. Might as well write the highlights in the notebook for easy access in case your forget something. Writing HTML is long and arduous work.

[arjue]

I can host your crappy website if you want.

I just throw a design together in PSP and throw it in frontpage, then I look through the code and clean it up manually (can't write HTML, but its easy enough to read).

[Giltch]

1. a working computer
2. a notebook to write stuff in (so you don't forget what HTML tags do.)
3.an account on a webhosting site (doesn't have to be anything special, freewebs.com is what i use)

1. HTML
2. Javascript (i don't bother learning plain Java, it's confusing.)

I've never heard of anyone actually writing down certain tags in a notebook. And you don't want to have something like freewebs. If you're looking for a free one, I suggest Bravenet. It's very easy to use if you're not yet farmiliar with FTP.

Books can be helpful, but books can also be a pain in the ass. The internet > tutorial books. LissaExplains.com was the first place I learned HTML. It's a kiddy site aimed directly at the youngins(even younger than me! gasp!), but you'd be surprised at how very helpful it can be. Lastly, Javascript is not something you should be worried about learning right now. You won't find yourself using it much.

[Melf]

I got a free copy of Macromedia Studio MX 2004 and sat down with Dreamweaver, learning everything as I went. Sure, my site is fugly, but considering I knew zero when I started, I'd say it's pretty good. I'm in no real rush to redo the layout, as I'd prefer to learn bit by bit and do it myself.

[arjue]

ftp's are as hard to use as windows explorer.

[jonas]

a) use yellow
b) use lots of animated gifs of flashing colours (red green blue, red green blue)
c) combine a + b
d) use brown font
e) use flash ALL THE TIME, even when it's not necessary

Success with these points.