Introduction: Website Making 101, Make a Website With No Coding!
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Ever wanted your own website? Websites can be useful to promote businesses, sell products, interact with friends, showcase something you made, pass time, and thousands of other things. This Instructable will show you how to make a website with 100% no coding or programming experience. Not everyone wants to learn HTML, CSS, PHP, and other languages just to make a website! Each step on this article show you different websites that let you publish your thoughts on the web, and a short guide to setting up your website.
Step 1: Webs.com
Webs.com is the greatest web host. If your looking to make a small personal site, web store, portfolio, blog, or even a social network, Webs.com is for you! Sign up for free and add pages and apps; like a photo gallery, video gallery, forum, members page, blogs, web store, and more. The cool thing about Webs.com is the social interaction. You can let your members upload images, videos, and post to the forums and blog. They can sign up and complete their own profile, add friends, message each other, and more. Of course, if you don't want these features, you don't have to add them. You can set up a personal site, web store, or anything you want!
Webs.com
In the third and fourth images below is a screenshot of the Webs.com site manager. Read the notes on what each thing does. Signing up is easy, on the homepage fill out your Email and Password, then you come to a page where you fill out more details. The next page you choose what pages you want to add unto your site, but I normally un-check them all. You can add them at any time, and I like making my sites page-by-page.
When you login (see image three below) you have a basic site manager page. Check the image for more in-depth notes, but this is where you edit your pages, upload files, etc etc.
When you edit a page you see a full-screen preview of what your site looks like, and you can edit content directly on your site. When your done you click Publish to publish the changes, or you can save it and work on it later.
Webs.com
In the third and fourth images below is a screenshot of the Webs.com site manager. Read the notes on what each thing does. Signing up is easy, on the homepage fill out your Email and Password, then you come to a page where you fill out more details. The next page you choose what pages you want to add unto your site, but I normally un-check them all. You can add them at any time, and I like making my sites page-by-page.
When you login (see image three below) you have a basic site manager page. Check the image for more in-depth notes, but this is where you edit your pages, upload files, etc etc.
When you edit a page you see a full-screen preview of what your site looks like, and you can edit content directly on your site. When your done you click Publish to publish the changes, or you can save it and work on it later.
Step 2: Tumblr
Tumblr is a quick and easy blog you can set up. It's a fun website to use to share your thoughts, photos, videos, and any other thing you want the world to read! You can choose from hundreds of awesome themes, and post photos, videos, chats, audio, quotes, links, and normal text posts.
Some ideas to use Tumblr for are ...
.1 Photo Blog
.2 Journal
.3 Promotion
Tumblr.com
When you visit Tumblr, you type in your email and password. That's all. Then you are asked what details you want for your blog (URL/Name). You can then post to your blog (text/photo/quote/link/chat/audio/video posts). Check the images below for more in-depth notes.
Your dashboard is pretty easy to understand. You have some post icons, which let you post content to your website, and below that are your recent posts. Also, if you follow a blog, their newest posts appear here.
Some ideas to use Tumblr for are ...
.1 Photo Blog
.2 Journal
.3 Promotion
Tumblr.com
When you visit Tumblr, you type in your email and password. That's all. Then you are asked what details you want for your blog (URL/Name). You can then post to your blog (text/photo/quote/link/chat/audio/video posts). Check the images below for more in-depth notes.
Your dashboard is pretty easy to understand. You have some post icons, which let you post content to your website, and below that are your recent posts. Also, if you follow a blog, their newest posts appear here.
Step 3: Wordpress
Wordpress is a fantastic way to publish your content on the web. More advanced then Tumblr, you can choose from lots of themes, change lots of options, and make your website look very professional. Wordpress has lots of options like polls, ratings, themes, add pages, manage users, and more.
Wordpress.com
Wordpress.com
Step 4: Blogger
Blogger is a fun way for Google users to publish content to the web. Not as advanced as Wordpress.com, and not as many themes to choose from (though you can download hundreds of themes off of the internet), it's a fun and simple way to blog. You can add lots of widgets and customize the way your site looks.
Blogger.com
Blogger.com
