Has anybody ever made their own website? How do i go about it?

Follow some of the many easy tutorials on HTML and CSS available online, don't resort to "WYSIWYG" editors, since many of these will be adding obsolate, and invalid code to your pages, forced-spaces, and so on.

All you really need is, a copy of notepad. But generally any text-editor would be sufficient, i usually allways use notepad. But for the bigger projects i use notepad++, (for syntax highlighting, and tabbed editing).

http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/

You can preview the websites you make in your browser. I.E. Internet Explore.

Here is a few site's with Tutorials/References to get you started:

http://www.brugbart.com/?TID=1 - (An Introduction to HTML and CSS)

http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Guide/ - (Dave Raggett's Introduction to HTML)

http://www.w3.org/Style/Examples/011/firstcss - (Starting with HTML + CSS)

When you have gotten around the basics, you would want somewhere to host your website, there are many places to do this, (some of which are free).

http://members.freewebs.com/ - (Freewebs)

http://pages.google.com/ - (Google Pages)

http://www.tripod.lycos.com/ - (Tripod)

These are however best suited for personal pages. and you would need to make sure, that you are able to upload your documents and files, either through ftp, or a "File Manager".

When you get tired of the free hosting, and want to get more serius. I recommend buying a domain name, and some hosting space on a shared host like http://www.one.com/ with support for php and mysql: hosting is very cheap these days, no need to spend a furtune on a dedicated server, unless you have thousands of visitors.

Getting you website is easy. It depends on what you want the website for. If it is just to have web presence you can choose a freehost who will give you a subdomain on their servers as well as an application to automatically make your website. However they will put some adverts on your site. This option is not good for a business.However for a few dollars you can upgade your package to remove the adverts. Try www.freeservers.com

The next option is google apps. Here you buy your own domain and gogle hosts you. The best approach is to go to www.godaddy.com and buy a domain(US $ 5 already configured with google apps. learn more about it at http://www.google.com/a

You can also buy a domain name and hosting and design a website using a WYSIWYG programme (What You See Is What You Get) like dreamweaver http://livedocs.adobe.com/dreamweaver/8/index.html

Better still buy a hosting package and install a opensource content management system like joomla(www.joomla.org) the easiest to use. or Drupal www.drupal.org. However there are thousands of opensource CMS aroung just search "opensource CMS" and review for yourself.

If you want a blog choose blogger or wordpress

To compare the go to http://www.cmsmatrix.org/

Well you need hosting for a website... heres a list

1: Hosting

2: Domain

3: Coding of the layout ( html,php,css?)

Its not that hard, but can be costly if you choose the wrong options.

Or you could look at free hosting sites like

FreeWebs

You can find step by step guide on how to make you own website at website like http://www.aplis.net/ .

Anyone can make a website you need a domain to host it which you have to pay for my website cost's me $80 a year mine is hosted from the states by my sister.

I used this lot for a few sites:

http://order.1and1.co.uk/xml/order/Hosting;jsessio...

You can start by playing with the free PageBreeze to develop it on your PC:

http://www.pagebreeze.com/

You could go online, search for "www.freewebs.com", sign up, and build it. It has games, videos, photos, graphics, layouts, faces, stuff like that. Good Luck and have fun!!

:)

Bebo is cool, its not really buisness or anything....But there is ZoomShare, thats good!

And then BlackWidow is amazing!

xoxo