How to Design a Website without Using HTML (With Pictures)
1. Research. You should know some basic things about having a website. This means you should learn what Hosting, Domain, and Server is. Read the articles on Wikipedia or elsewhere.
2. Domain and Hosting Package. Buy a domain and hosting
package online. This is fairly easy, but you should use your intuition
to know whether to trust a site or not. Read here about buying a domain name, and here for articles about buying a web host.
3. Plan the design of your site. Plan your website well
to avoid time consuming. It's okay and even recommended to spend some
hours or even days to plan the site well. Just take a piece of paper,
pencil, eraser and a marker to start planing your site. Take a separate
paper and write your all ideas on it. Then start planning about the
site-map. Here's a good guide on how to plan your site.
4. Start designing:
Using a Site-build of the hosting company. If you would have
bought the domain and hosting from a good company, they would offer you a
free site-building software or an online site-building platform to
build your site. If you are beginner this way is very easy.
Using a WYSIWYG software. There are many WYSIWYG software
available on the net. Dreamweaver and Web Studio 0.5 are recommended.
Last mentioned have one month free trial period which is well enough to
create a full website. It is very easy, but if you are having trouble,
there's many tutorial on the web, just search for it.
Using a open source developer. Probably you would have heard
about Wordpress, Joomla and Drupal. Which are famous open source
programs which are fully free to use. This is bit advanced but can be
used for big projects.
First download Wordpress or Joomla and upload the files to your web
server using a FTP client like Filezilla. When you log-in to your server
you can see a folder call 'public_html' under this folder there should
be a folder for your domain like 'www.yourdomain.com'. You should upload
the files in that folder to start developing the site. Once you
uploaded, open your browser and point it to www.youdomain.com/wordpress
or www.yourdomain.com/joomla. You have to do some settings there. if you
done with that you can develop your site without a single coding.
Tips
The easiest way of building a website, is to use an online website
builder. A good website builder can set up your website within minutes.
Then, all you need to do is add content. It doesn't get much easier than
this! Also, a good website builder will require no technical knowledge.
You simply choose a design from a list of templates, then customize it
to suit your needs.
Warnings
You might occasionally encounter someone offering you a free
website. Basically these enable you to sign up, and start building your
website for free. But be careful: There are things they might not tell
you when they're trying to sell you a free website. While a few
companies will be completely upfront about these extra costs, others
will fail to mention them ...until you've signed up:
Your "free" website does not have it's own domain name (i.e.
www.yourname.com). If you want your own domain name, you'll have to pay
for it. And you will probably pay more than you should.
Your "free" website may have ads displayed all over it. This enables
the company (not you), to earn money from your website. To remove the
ads, you will usually have to pay money for a premium package.
Most of the really good features are actually part of a "premium" package - which you have to pay for.
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