How Do I Make a Website?

First you need to register a domain ie www.redback.biz

Then you need some space on a server.

Now design a few pages and that's best done with some decent software.

Then upload it to the space.

Matrixxhosting will help you register a domain and host your site on their servers very cheaply and reliably so go to http://www.matrixxhosting.com/

NetObjectsFusion 9 is a program for creating sites and comes free on the cover disk of June's PC Pro.

NetObjects may do the uploading (its called FTP) for you but if not Internet Explorer can be used.

That's it - good luck.

I use streamlinenet.co.uk for my domain and hosting and havent found anywhere cheeper for the kind of package I get (vitualy unlimited everything)
The customer service can be a little slow but I very rarely have any problems with the actual hosting and would highly recomend them

Yes streamline.net are very good and cheap for what you get, I also use them.
clearthinkingcreative.co.uk You get FREE domain name's and ownership as part of the package but only on, .co.uk / .net /.biz but I don't think they cover .org.

Depending on your email package - i.e if you are with BT or similar you will normally get some hosting space free.

This is the type of space where my site for the Cherub I co funded / sailed:

http://uk.geocities.com/cherub.publicity@btinternet.com/inde x.html

but as you can see you tend to get a iffy long URL and the bandwidth is small and can mean people can't see the site from time to time because to many people have accessed your site, so don't all click at once!

As for programmes if you run a Apple Mac - Freeway is a very good bit of software which is easy to use and cheap, you can buy it in packs, starting from £49.

http://www.softpress.com

As for PC. You shouldn't be using that junk anyway!

you can also use a web based programme like DokuWiki - the UK Cherub site uses this...

 http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki%3ADokuWiki

With a few HTML / gif's graphics to spice things up

http://www.uk-cherub.org/


Hope that helps

I've just registered a domain by going to Matrixxhosting it was a a .co.uk and cost £9.50 for 2 years.  I can't recommend the simplicty of it more.

You need to buy/regester a domain name then associate it with some space on a server there are loads of sites that will sell you one and the server space as well you can probably get a simple site going for about £20 for two years.

Some of these sites have tools to let you build a site using their templates but these are restrictive and a bit rubbish.

The next stage up from this is to use some software as described above to make your site most of them will let you drag and drop pictues and text and format the whole thing. You can then upload those files to the space on the server you have previously bought. Most web authoring software has tools to help you do that.

The trouble is that you largely get what you pay for with web authering tools and the code that most of them seem to produce is confusing and not standards compliant. This means that your site will look different depending on the browser being used to look at it.

Personaly I prefer to hand code using a text editor with syntax highlighting, that way I know which bit does what in the whole site but then I started playing with websites in the early 90's