creating a website

[reddster]

I would like to create a website. Anyone know of websites that tell you how to do it... simply, without lots of techy words! I would like to also know if I can initially set it up off line and then transfer it to a domain/host thingy. Do I need special software? (You may notice I know nothing about it). Cheers

[OBonio]

http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_www.asp

You can create websites 'offline' by simply using files and directories on your computer and opening them in a browser.

Special software... For beginners, I would recommend getting a WYSIWYG HTML editor like Dreamweaver (or there's Microsoft's FrontPage, but I'm not a big fan of that).  Also, a graphics package to chop/edit images with is essential (a free one is called The GIMP, or get PhotoShop).  Probably need an FTP (File Transfer Protocol) program to upload your files to your host with too (FileZilla is a nice free one, or CuteFTP is good too).

Good luck!

[stevie21]

I agree with most if not all of the above. One thing to watch for is that if you use an program like Front Page to create your pages and insert a link to an image into one of your pages, the link may point to the location on your *hard drive* of the image.
If you're interested enough in putting a site together then use, where possible, "relative links" rather than absolute links.

A relative link would mean that if your webpage and your image are in the same folder then the link will just be to "image1.jpg".
An absolute link will include the full path. If this is on your hard drive it'll be "C:\myWebsite\image1.jpg". Once your webpage is online, this type of link is useless.