Starter guide

[MoneySaver]

Hi,
Please, can someone help me and give me info on how to build a website? I already registered a domain name and paid for hosting.

Thanks

[Evil_Dictator]

http://tutorials.hostmonster.com/started/

Try this

[MoneySaver]

Thanks E.D,
I can see some light from that. Unfortunately, I do not have frontpage in my pc, I have publisher. I'll ultimately have to install frontpage.

[pghcollectibles]

any editing program will work even notepad also these (http://www.w3schools.com) two (http://www.tizag.com) are helpful

[cormacstone]

Hi MoneySaver...

Hope I don't sound too arrogant here :-) you're probably more advanced than the advice I offer, but in case you need the help, I'll continue...

Basically a web page is written in text.

So you can use notepad to open a new textfile called index.txt

Then use your browser to look at the source code (text file) for an online webpage (press ctrl+u in firefox) or find "view source" in explorer.

Copy and paste the code into your index.txt and save the file, the change it from .txt to .html and bingo you've created a webpage. That's why people talk about being able to write in code e.g. html - webpages are text based in their source format.

Alternatively, you can use a program that writes the code for you -
you e.g. tell it what image you want and where it goes on the webpage and it generates the code.

Frontpage is a simple type of such program, and e.g. Dreamweaver is more advanced. There are free html (or web) editors available online.

I'd advise doing some online research into basic html coding - there are surprisingly few commands and you'll get it quickly enough.

By the way, the first page that a website displays when you enter urdomain.com into a browser is always called index.html

When you have a working index.html you can upload it via your host control panel and your website is online.

Welcome to programming...