My aim with this blog site is to help everyone understand the processes involved in building a web site. 

I, like all web developers, will use all sorts of tools to develop a web site but the concept of each site is unique. The processes below will describe how I design, code and implement a web site. I am not saying it is the only way or even, necessarily, the “correct” way, but it is “my” way. 

Firstly, it should be emphasised that building a web site does require some knowledge of a computer, but anyone who can browse the net can build a web site. It really is that simple.

Maybe it won’t have all the bells and whistles, maybe it won’t look fantastic, but it can be done by just about anyone. Professional web designers build sites for a living, so they can take the headaches away from you and have the experience to be able to design a much more user friendly site than you should expect to create yourself (as a first time web builder, or even 10th time web builder). As you can see from my links there are a number of companies offering that service, including mine. Feel free to take a look at them.

Yes, we all make mistakes. No one is perfect – If we were then we would all be computers and not the ones that use them.

Some of us may have delusions of grandeur, but no matter what, we all make mistakes. Getting something wrong should not result in you giving up. Who was it who said “if at first you don’t succeed, try try again” (or was it “give up” – I can never remember..lol). Practice definitely does, in this case, make perfect – or as perfect as you can be. There is a plethora of information on the web and I would urge you to make use of it.

Anyway, back to the subject at hand. Don’t be put off by all the jargon. It is intended to confuse you. We computer technicians are good at that and Microsoft takes first prize in it. For instance, I have been programming in Visual Basic (even BASIC as it was first known) since it was first launched. Nothing really changes, different designs, new features added, old ones removed, but basically it is the same, even if the name isn’t.

Unfortunately, there are a lot of companies out there that haven’t seen the light yet, and blindly go out and buy new software because they are told they have to. But then, I can’t complain, it has kept me in work for over 30 years now, so I really do have to say “Thank You” to companies such as Microsoft corporation.

Again, I digress. so…back to Web Design for Beginners.

I personally develop all my sites using Adobe Dreamweaver (http://www.adobe.com/uk/). This is a personal preference, but is the tool used by most web developers. There are a lot of web design tools available, so if this is not your forte then look around.