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Building a website all by yourself

If you are looking for great tools and information on simple, effective web design, check these sites:

  • At SitePoint you will find great tips on good design practices, design principles, usability and how to use software, just jump to http://www.Sitepoint.com/ and explore.
  • Builder.com will show you not only technical tricks but groups of like minded developers: http://Builder.com/, take it a bit at a time.
  • Useit.com is all about usability -how visitors are going to use your web site- and it is important your site is "usable" or visitors will go before you can click your mouse, see http://www.Useit.com/ for inspiration.

Before writing any code, learn about good design practices and usability. Search engines and visitors will love it and reward your site with many repeat visits.

There are, besides, more things to plan. A small web site may be just HTML coded, however, if you are planning a site with a large number of pages, a dynamic -based on a database- site might be much more easier to maintain and update on the long run.

Do you code everything yourself or use a platform? There are some free blog systems , such as Wordpress, or conten management systems, CMS for shorts, such as Joomla or Drupal that you could use as a base.