Do you have your own Website or Webpage?
By devideddi
@devideddi (1435)
United States
January 13, 2007 10:29pm CST
I am in middle of construction of my own website and I have decided that...IT IS HARD! I picked out the style and colors. That was the fun part. And I picked out some fun stuff to go on it like message board, guest book, cartoon and lots of other stuff. Tahat was fun too. Then it hit me. Nothing connects to anything, I can't find my links and I am totally confused. I had to stop and take a break from working on it and come ask you guys. Have any of you made your own site? Was it hard? Did you use a wizard/set up type thing to set it up? I am using Bravehost. Is anyone familiar with that site or service?
Thanks
Oh and if anyone wants to try this themselves please please tell me so I can refer you! I will get a whole dollar.
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112 responses
@Aussies2007 (5336)
• Australia
14 Jan 07
I have been building my own websites for the past 10 years and self taught myself.
I learned with FrontPage for the first three years. And I have been using Dreamweaver since 2000. I am currently using Dreamweaver MX 2004.
I have looked at other programs and I have not find anything better.
I am currently in the process of building a new website. I started with the template of another program and did spend almost a week editing that template to have it the way I wanted it.
Building your homepage is the hardest part as you need to be creative in order to make it look good. Once you have it... you can use it as a template to build your other pages.
Besides that... learning how to use the program to build that website does take also a lot of time. I don't try to learn the program before building the site. I learn it while I build it. I go and learn only what I need to know to do a specific thing. One step at a time.
I was very confortable using FrontPage when I switched to Dreamweaver... and I knew a lot about building websites already. But Dreamweaver was a totally different program... and it took me 12 months to be confortable with it as I used to be with FrontPage.
Besides that... you need to know a lot more than one program to build websites. You really need to know about everything. The second most important thing is to have a good image editor to edit graphics... and learn how to do it.
As you go along... you need to learn to read your html codes to understand what they do in order to edit them. Simply putting things on your page does not always do the trick. The only way to have them where you want them is to edit those codes.
I cannot tell you here about everything you need to learn to build a website. All I can tell you is that you need a lot of patience and be committed 100% to the task. You also need to enjoy the challenge of doing it. If you are serious about it... in a couple of years, you won't be a professional... but you will be pretty good.
You can see my website at
http://www.aussies-online.com
@devideddi (1435)
• United States
14 Jan 07
Wow thats alot to take in. Thanks for your input. I am just going to have to be more patient and try and learn one thing at a time.
@adrianngan (423)
• Hong Kong
14 Jan 07
I do have a website but didn't update it for more than half a year.Because it s very messy and i just give up and forget it.Now i am just writing blogs several times a week.It is much easier to manage and
have a very good layout.Upload photos and share my memories.So I do have a website but didn't manage it for a very long time.
@djbtol (5493)
• United States
14 Jan 07
I have one simple website on freewebs.
http://www.freewebs.com/djbtol/index.htm
I am also still learning, and freewebs made the process fairly straightforward. I have heard of braveheart, but have never used it.
Blogs are similar to websites and can do a lot of the same tricks.
Here are links to a couple of my blog sites:
http://www.blogfeast.net/blog/djbtol
http://www.bloggerparty.com/blog/djbtol
Have a great day.
@danielcatastrophy22 (775)
• Philippines
14 Jan 07
yeah i have my own website now but i havent update it i think for more than 3 months now.. i made it using a free site builder..im focusing more now on blogs..its much easier to maintain..and you can also do what you can do in making website in making a blogs,,its just somewhat like the same..but blog as i say is more easier to manage.
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@toonpulse (10)
• United States
14 Jan 07
I remeber when I first started making websites I used notepad. Now I use dreamweaver and it cuts time greatly. Or I just use some software like wordpress or joomla(really recomend)
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@mavijayne (429)
• Philippines
14 Jan 07
yes i got a website, try to visit it. www.freewebtown.com/mavijayne
@hassei_takano (1411)
• Indonesia
14 Jan 07
Like many peole do. i elarn by doing. I use Dream Weaver MX to make my site ^^
I have several. many site. This is my favorite
http://www.w3schools.com/ Now I learn how to use CSS
My site? Umh...
http://dubberindo.tl (me and my sister site)
http://blogboleh.com/hassei
@prashantbhargav (309)
• India
14 Jan 07
Yeah i have one...its my personal website......its www.prashantbhargav.tk
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@wise_old_owl (51)
• India
14 Jan 07
i do have a blog but not a website. it is www.wowwhatatweak.co.nr. it is dedicated to tips n tweaks of computer to increase computer perfomance n discover some amazing hidden features. do visit my blog
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@devideddi (1435)
• United States
21 Jan 07
Im on my way there now! I need stuff like that, cant' wait
@sungat (1015)
• Pakistan
14 Jan 07
i have no website or webpage.but i am intrested to a website but i do not know how to create webpage and if i tell some one else to make a website for me he will take a huge amount for creating it so if you people have idea to how i get a free website then please tell me
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@berry9 (590)
• India
14 Jan 07
my dear friend,yes.I just created my own website.the difficulty is in promoting it.you can check my website.it is www.freewebs.com/cryssberry.I have loaded some intresting and also useful stuff.You can create your own free website too at freewebs.Its fun.you make sure you make your website appealing and intresting.
@devideddi (1435)
• United States
20 Jan 07
yea, I got same thing.
Still thanks both of u for responding
@Jewelyluv (104)
• United States
14 Jan 07
I want you to get a whole dollar, what do I need to do? I would like to start my own website too...so this can be the blind leading the blind I quess, maybe we can help each other
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@Echo123 (155)
• United States
14 Jan 07
A website develops over time. Start small. Put up a little bit of this and that and eventually you will begin to see a theme emerge. At that point, you can fine tune things. I have several sites and I've been doing this for over 10 years. My personal site has morphed into something new over and over.
I agree with those who have mentioned blogging. it might be the perfect way for you to get started with your own little piece of the net.
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@creationhub (3066)
• Malaysia
14 Jan 07
I am glad to read this post. I have just created my website and still in the midst of upgrading it. If you have the time do visit the site :
http://www.creationhub.net
I hope to get it up and proper before end of January. You can be sure Mylot's referral will be on it.
@korek222 (701)
• Poland
14 Jan 07
i used to have my web page when i was working on the online earning oportunities , i closed it down when i earned enough ;) then i had a personal webpage which i also closed after a while because it was totaly useless :)
@stefanosarti1977 (69)
• Italy
14 Jan 07
i'll have a financial site but i need tme to do it
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@razzuc (2)
• Romania
14 Jan 07
I have a website where i cant upload photos , Make new friends , I have a forum where my friends can chat and discussion different problems.I had my own website , although it was an adult website. I sold it though . It made me a huge amount of money but I felt it best move on to bigger and better things . From owning an adult site it opened a bunch of doors for me in which i actually opened a business for myself... Everything to with website , marketing etc . I sometimes miss my adult site but i have a lot of knowledge that i can pass onto others about the website business.
