Creating a website

[Minibiker]

Hi all

I've not created a website before but would like to give it a try, is there any programs that are useful when creating one, are they expensive to create?

Sorry if it sounds abit of a dumb question just never looked into it before

Cheers

 

[Minibiker]

Wholly depends on what you want to achieve from the website really. There's a few layers to it from a professional point-of-view but it's all extremely accessible to get started and costs only count when you want to put something live on the web.

At a basic level you want to be learning HTML & CSS and use an IDE such as Visual Studio Code. Advanced would be learning JavaScript and using a content management system (WordPress being the most popular). From there you can then you get get into full blown web-based applications in JavaScript Frameworks such as React and VueJs plus whatever server side API & database needs they have.

Thanks for this info bud very helpful, I'll have to look deeper into the stuff you've said about.

 

[Minibiker]

The easiest thing in my opinion would be to use wordpress. It's free, and you don't need to know any code to do the basics. There's widgets and plugins to do pretty much anything you could want, and it's so popular (25% of all the websites in the world are made using it) you'll find answers to any question you might have.

I shall have a look at this, thank you

Minimum required:
HTML to define links, paragaphs, images, lists, tables, etc. https://www.w3schools.com/html/
CSS to make the HTML look decent. https://www.w3schools.com/Css/
Domain+Hosting so people can access it. https://www.fasthosts.co.uk/web-hosting

Then you start needing to learn programming to get dynamic things to happen either client-side in JavaScript or server-side in PHP/.Net/Java/etc, and databases to store data in, that stuff is harder.

a lot to learn then, think ill need to read into it more