hi

i would love to design my website on my own, one of my friend told that there is software to build website easily but not sure the name of that software.


so i need you guys help me in providing that software to build my website easily and attractive one.

thanks in advance

Try the Dreamweaver tryout from adobe.

Here is the basic principal of web design in Dreamweaver.

Choose in Dreamweaver the option to work with web sites as "Design" instead of "code" or the other option. Later you can swith the view as split with "Design" and "Code" together. This will help you better understand what the HTML code is really doing.

Create a new HTML document preferably named index.html

Play with the menus until you find the tool to select to draw a table (Tables show up as a green bordered box) Now with your mouse draw a table box about the size of your main page, What you want it to be.

Next find the Cell tool to draw a cell. (Cells are a blue border box) Draw a cell inside the table box you just created. Now in this cell you can place content. Type some text, change the font, color it, center it, size it etc. or place a jpg picture remembering to keep the image file size small using compression such as what Fireworks offers.

You can create a link just by typing text or inserting a picture of a button and with that text or picture selected you can specify that when clicked the link will take you to a new HTML page such a page2.html that you will create.

This is a real basic overview of the principal of design using Dreamweaver as it is much mire detailed than that but if you understand from the start what your objective is, things will fall into place much easier as you explore features and how to use them.

In the most basic approach of web design your goal is to create a page, create a link and have that link open a new page. There are many options as to how you can do this and much more detailed principals to design but get that first and you will in time refine the rest such as using scripts to automate or improve things and from there you will learn how to use MSQL back end databases to refine control even better.

Try this for an exercise in setting up a script and connecting it to your servers database. Check out WordPress.org to get a quick lesson on the 15 minute website. Wordpress was originally intended to be a Blog system but it is much more powerful than that in that you could use it as a stand alone Website with edit capabilities right from your browser and best of all its free but it is no true replacement for custom web design.

Enjoy your adveture

Dreamweaver won't create the site, and IMO it's NOT a good tool for someone who knows NOTHING about web design. The FIRST thing that should happen is to learn HTML and at least the basics of CSS, THEN you'll understand exactly what you're doing and why in putting together a site.

In order to design from scratch, you first have to start with a DESIGN - that means a graphics program.

Start off with HTML first.. that's what I'm doing currently

you can also try to design first on adobe photoshop slice them, Best way to slice your design is make heder, sidebar or where you want to put the navigation bar then if you want to made some footer then go ahead then save web page as.

I know a lot of people that just jumped into web design, thinking there's nothing to it. Really, you do need to do a fair bit of work. They're not just handing out web designing degrees!

So I suggest to you...

Go to http://www.w3schools.com and do the tutorials on html/xhtml and css. Alternatively, do other educational things (books, e-books etc.) DO NOT RUSH THIS PROCESS. Please try to work hard and trust me, it is easy to get hold of. You will now know html and css. These are the two main things you need to know in order to create a site. Just practice, practice, practice!

Then when you know how to work html and css, try designing a site. Like ladynred says, use photoshop or something to design a site. If you can't use photoshop, you can even buy templates. Then when you have a design you like, just try to use the skills you learned and implement them.

These two steps you'll find are quite simple and easy to learn. If you really want to learn more than the basics, try learning scripting language like JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, ASP etc.) HTML and CSS may just take you a few weeks but the scripting languages may take you many months.

So get into it while knowing it takes work and perserverance.

You may think that you don't have the time or don't want to do all this, if not you can easily get someone to make you a site.

By the way, Dreamweaver is good to code a site, just use it in code view as design view add rubbish extra code.

Hope this helps and any questions are welcome. We are all here to help and share!