Web design & hosting forum: How to design a website?

Hi
If it is a blog then there are numerous blogging software available. One of the main ones is Wordpress, but I use Movable Type for mine, which is www.theSarayiahpost.com which is my views on Life, Love and Relationships to help others.

Movable Type in my opinion gives far more professional results, but is equally more complex and nowhere as well supported as Wordpress. If you have a look at my blog you will see what it looks like and if you need more help then you can get in contact.

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Isaac Sarayiah

Designing can be done on paper, or with graphic design tools. Even with MS Word or MS Powerpoint you can make a crude design of how your site should look.

Making it is a different story, and not easy, if you want to do it from scratch or with a tool like Joomla, Wordpress or MS Frontpage or Macromedia Dreamweaver. And even more difficult if you want it to be linked to a database in stead of just containing static html.

Only some blog-sites have user-friendly ways to design a site (choosing from templates and configuring them) and post to your own blog.

Kees

As Kees mentioned, designing (creating the look and user interface) and developing a website (taking the design and turning it into a website) are two different things. Depending on the complexity and goals of your website, you may be able to get away with generic templates (i.e. no custom design). That leaves you with choosing a platform to power your website.

It comes down to this: if you are willing to put time and effort into learning how to do this, you can go with something like Wordpress or Drupal, which don't require coding per se, but it would be a good tool to have in your bag to get it just how you want it. In addition, there are thousands of developers that work with those platforms that could help you out with specific questions/tasks.

If you're looking to do minimal work, you can go with something like Movable Type, Typepad, or Tumblr, if you're looking for a blog-like website. This is a paid service and you can contact the respective company for support.

If you have specific things you want, and don't want to spend much time on it, it's best to hire someone to do this for you. That's the most guaranteed way to get what you want.

~Sovereign

It is easy you can use some software like frontpage, or other free editors on internet. also normally your host company offer some free package that you can use them too to easily create your website

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Steps to design a website:

1. Always remember your audience and purpose.
2. Create a consistent layout.
3. Create a consistent style.
4. Make your purpose clear.
5. Keep the homepage simple.
6. Maximize readability.
7. Don't bombard the viewer with cutesy, gimmicky graphics.
8. Make your website universally readable.
9. Keep hearing and visually-impaired website visitors in mind.
10. Include interesting and relevant links.
11. Include a "mailto" link.
12. Make sure your visitors know that the site is active and being modified.
13. Test your website.
14. Publish your website.




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There are various web hosting sites by which you can take help and create your own website. There are also various software are available by which you can download complete template of any website and with the help of that you can create your own. There are also a number of videos are available to design HTML/CSS pages by which you can create better look for your website.

Hey man, I see your problem and it is extremely difficult to design your own website and make it look professional. It would be ideal to hire some one that is a professional to do that kind of thing. However, I do have something that might help with you website overall. It would affect the way your website is laid out so it has something to do with web design. It is a real time analytics service with heatmaps that tell you what is the strong and weak points of your website so that you can improve it. It is called SeeVolution and it is a free service for now. So hurry up and sign up, I think its not going to be free soon and it is a pro tool.

if you have any questions just holla at me.

Website dev is not for the faint of heart. Consider hiring someone to develop the site, or be like many of others, and take a course.

Designing a website is not a easy task. at present wordpress and joomla are the two software available for designing the website.

Hello KiranAkbar,

I would like to suggest you to concentrate on your online business if you are the owner of it rather than taking time in its coding and designing. As coding needs sound knowledge and experience and a single mistake in it could be harmful to your website. So hire a web designer or a web design company and let assign your work to them and concentrate more on your online business.

Wordpress has some of the best designs for themes. They dont all look like blogs and they dont have to be linked to wordpress. See I have a blog in blogspot and I use wordpress to do SEO, backlinking, designing images, adding fast downloadable images from free media library and the more. You just import and export the design by copy pasting the html from wordpress page to blogger or any other website. No need to hassle for CSS etc.
This is new technology and new independence from old threadlike structures.
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Hi,

first of all you can use web to date 8 (www.todate.com) to create a web page and for designing your site you can use www.a5-animator.com.

The best and easy way is to buy a template or use a script like WordPress with a nice theme.

Hello Kiran,
It's nice to know that you want to design a website. I am not the greatest designer of websites and created mine using WordPress. It is open source and free. In my point of view designing a website using WordPress is much simpler when compared to others. Everything that makes a webpage feel rich - videos, images, document, and music feel right at home in WordPress. It includes many great features and plug-ins. A good place to start will be SimpleWebsiteTutorials: how to make your own website. It is suited for beginners who can learn the basics with the help of instructional videos.

Hi Kiran,

Having your own website is the best way to communicate ideas or market a business or product to people across the world. Making website is a very creative work. If you have some knowledge about html pages then it is not very difficult task for you. A website is a collection of related web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that are addressed relative to a common Uniform Resource Locator (URL), often consisting of only the domain name, or the IP address. In order to create a website from scratch, you will need to have three things: a registered domain, a website hosting company, and an HTML editor programme. An HTML editor is a program that allows you to create your web site in a word processor-like environment while the program writes the HTML code for you in the background. You can also use powerpoint,paint for website creation.