Making website, Help needed

[unwashed potato!]

hey chaps,

Bascially i am thinking of making a website but have no idea how to and have heard you can get software which helps you do this, can you and if so what would you advise is best for me? helps if its free but dont mind if not.

I aim to maybe make a website with the free webspace i get with my interent provider, but i mihgt not depeneds how good the webspace is. I might put money making things oin it but its not really what i am making this website for, if money making ads etc were on they'd only be to make like the odd £5 per month.

the main aim is to just learn how to build websites for the future, as im only 17 years of age and would like to have this as a profession possibly. Im not quiet sure what the website will contain, just links to other websites, a few ads but not that many that people begin to just ignore them all completely.

Any ideas of what i could include on my website, e.g. good things that will teach me a lot and be not too hard to do, also ideas of good website building software?

thankyou very much in advance

 

[unwashed potato!]

ok thanks for the quick relpies. i think i have been convinced to look into this notepad2 business. How long does this sort of thing take, i know this is going to sound silly but oblivion is coming out on friday ish so i will be using any free time away from gf to play this game for the next month. but obviously once the hype of playing the game has dyed down i will settle back into reality and start trying to learn new skills and make a webpage. thanks for the useful links everyone and help so far