Welcome everyone to my newest venture on the internet. With this wonderful blog, I plan to record and track how I go about creating my first website. Bare in mind I am a complete newbie to all things web design related I have no idea what I am doing. So if you are a fellow newbie, It may be worth following along to get some hints and ideas how not to do certain things!
I am going to start simply, by creating a basic HTML website. I really want to look at using some kind of software that will allow me to update it easily. However I plan on learning the very basics first.
I have been looking around websites like w3school.com for great tips on the basics of HTML, however it is definitely more complicated than I had previously thought it would be. It doesn’t deter me tho, I am in this for the long run and will proceed slowly but steadily.
My stage 1 (initial strategy) for completing such a huge task is:
- Learn the basics of HTML.
- Start putting it into practice on a Free web hosting site
- learn about anything else HTML related, how to create cool unique pages with some different abilities on
- lean about javascript to try and help my pages be a bit more dynamic
This is the basics of where I will start, however while completing my step 1 strategy, If I come across something important more so that I think I should incorporate into my knowledge, I will add in along the way.
To complement what I plan on doing I have bought a copy of Dreamweaver, the HTML editing program. Hopefully this may give me a bit more of an idea of layout and things like that. Either way I need to learn it from the bare bones so to speak.
After my mastery of the basics like HTML, I would love to learn PHP. This is where it will really start to get tricky I imagine. However there is a wealth of resources all over the internet which should give me a great head start into the world of web design. I will probably also end up buying a PHP & MySQL book to help me as it is a lot more complex and complicated than basic HTML.
My First Website 