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Mehta23

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I'm interested in building a functioning, pretty basic website for free/low cost. Would it be better to learn HTML or something and do it myself, or use of those free sites like yolasite?
 
What kind of site are you trying to make? HTML isn't terribly difficult. The thing is, web design isn't easy and it can take a while to get a site to look nice.
 
If you need to create a blog, then you may use WordPress. There's a lot of plugins (both free and paid) so its functional is pretty wide. The same goes about design themes.
For creating a site on your own you need solid HTML/PHP knowledge. If you are not sure you have them, then it's better using free sites - there's dozens of them over the net.
 
It really depends on what kind of site you're building.

As eugenerudenko mentioned Wordpress is great if all you want to do is concentrate on content/write blogs, it's super easy to setup with step-by-step tutorials everywhere.

If you're looking to make an e-commerce site, I would suggest one of the ready made solutions like Shopify. Then all you need to do is concentrate on selling your product.

I've been developing websites on and off for a few years now. Made www.DealsHongKong.com which just won a silver prize in the top 10 .hk websites competition 2012 from HKIRC (HK Internet Registry). Feel free to PM me if you get stuck, I'm no expert but i'll try to help :)

Also a shameless plug for a couple of websites I'm working on now... www.DealStove.com which is another deal aggregator for Canada, and www.Shop4NFC.com selling NFC Tags & Stickers <- this is where I discovered the Shopify option.
 
As others have said it really depends on what you're making it for. Cause along with html you will want to learn the basic css for the layout of the site.

Learning to make it yourself gives you a lot more freedom when it comes to doing what you want and making the ideas in your head come to life.
 
It would be for a small business. So not a lot of information to put on there, but I would want it to look good. :P
 
If it is just for a small business and you have the time, what better way/ reason to learn HTML and CSS? :)
If you choose to go the learn it rout here is a website that is very helpful haha
W3Schools Online Web Tutorials

it offers a very nice way of learning html in a hands on way, as well as other website languages. :)
 
Mehta23 said:
It would be for a small business. So not a lot of information to put on there, but I would want it to look good. :P
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Are you going to be doing eCommerce? If so, I'd probably recommend out sourcing it. There's a lot of regulations about how CC info has to be stored, and that would be a pretty daunting task to try to make by yourself.

Now, if you are doing a static business site, that would be do-able. HTML and CSS could work to make that. Hell, if you wanted to, you could even add some PHP and MySQL to make it pull in the information for the products and list them dynamically. But again, that'd be a bit more work. :)
 
I am guessing it's not going to be ecommerce but merely an info site about a business, but there are some ways to make it easier if you are doing an ecommerce site yourself. At the ecommerce convention last year, a keynote speaker talked about how using paypal is both effective and gives customers reassurance when purchasing from a small business online.

I think the best place to start is the base of the site, once he has an idea of what he wants it to look like. Then he can decide how fancy he wants it lol. Don't have to be too fancy because there are still plenty of sites out there that look like they were made in the 90s..
 
Exactly right. I have made a static kind of website in Serif WebPage for my IT coursework last year. But I think building one from scratch sounds pretty cool.
 
Okay, I'd say go for it. Static sites aren't terribly difficult. The tricky part will be getting it to look nice.

I'd recommend Codecademy. They have interactive lessons on HTML and CSS which is what you'll want to pick up. :)
 
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