Setting up a website

[mr.bungle]

I've got a great idea but need to set up a website any advice is appreciated

[vehelpfulguy]

If you have no idea of how to set up a web site then pay someone else to do it.

If you do it yourself it will look awful (at least until you have gained enough experience to design a good web site).

Also, if you get someone else to do it they will consider things like security, usability, download speed and so on.

Building a web site is fairly easy, bulding a GOOD web site is very difficult.

[vehelpfulguy]

Having said all that, if you want to have a go at building a web site then there are loads of "starter" books, like these:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Building-Web-Site-Dumm ies/dp/0470149280/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&q id=1210227829&sr=8-3

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Do-yourself-Web-Sites- Dummies/dp/0470169036/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&s=boo ks&qid=1210227829&sr=8-8

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Creating-Page-HTML-Vis ual-QuickProject/dp/032127847X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=U TF8&s=books&qid=1210228001&sr=8-2

[vehelpfulguy]

There are lots of things to consider when designing a web site, and here are some to make you realise it is not easy.

1) How would you design a web site so that it would look good on a 15" laptop screen as well as a 22" widescreen monitor (and everythng in between).

2) Are there any considerations when designing a web site so that it works in different browsers (IE, Firefox, Opera, Safari etc).

3) Are there any considerations when designing a website so it works on a PC, a Mac, a Linux computer, and other computers.

4) If you are going to put images on your computer is it best to use JPEG, GIF, BMP, PNG or something else ?

5) What considerations do you need to make for people with special needs (poor eyesight, lack of hand control etc).

6) Are you going to use pure HTML or use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) as well?

7) What product are you going to use to design the site: Dreamweaver, Expression, Net Objects Fusion, or something else.

These are just a few of things you need to consider when designing a site, there are LOADS more.

[chil]

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Good luck in your venture.