So how would one start a web site?

[-FMA]

I would not want to spend a lot of money, maybe like $50 (Is that possible to be a one time fee?)
I know I have seen stuff like 5.00 a month, which could be good for me, I don't need anything great.
I'm not exactly sure what I would want to do with the site, maybe just have one to mess around with, maybe become good a site building?
I know I can find a purpose for a site.
Does anyone have any tip's, help, advice, links that could help me?
Maybe HTML?

-FMA

[Ty44ler]

I started out learning HTML. It can become very handy sometimes and it is just a good all around base when trying to build a website. Building a site with only HTML can be very laborous and won't create a very dynamic site. Try learning to use Macromedia software such as Flash MX and Dreamweaver. They are much easier to use and quicker to learn. Learning photoshop could also be a help in your images.

I'd suggest getting a brief knowledge of HTML and how it works and then learn the programs like Dreamweaver and Flash.
Handy site for HTML:
w3schools

[GroundZero3]

-FMA do you have a broadband connection? If so most ISP give customers like 10 megs for each email account they have with the ISP

http://www.htmlgoodies.com/


google will have plenty of sites on basic HTML.

[rapidservers]

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[paul9]

you could have a look at a host such as www.godaddy.com
not a personal recommendation, but the name stuck in my mind. google for alternatives.

[-FMA]

I have SBC Yahoo DSL
I'm going to practice HTML a bit, I know a little but not much.

[mar122999]

A good company that I have found is Canaca.com. Based in Canada and only charges 3.95 for web space hosting! For that price, you get way more than any other company can offer!

[Lazywolf]

There is a simple way you can get a free web server and a domain name for $5.50 per year:

1) go to http://000k.com
2) Sign up for the "web-hosting give-away" package in the lower right hand corner of the page (it may be a bit hard to find; see image below):

3) Activate you account.
4)Then, go to https://secure.ipower.com/cgi-bin/hosting/domain.cgi and purchase a domain name for $5.50
5)go back to 000k.com and set up your domain name on your new free server space.

That's how I would do it.

[FatalException]

My suggestion for starting out and playing around is to learn some HTML or get a free HTML editor (something like a shareware or freeware copy of a Frontpage-style program... your copy of MS Office may already have Frontpage installed on your PC - if so, try using that and analyzing the code it creates for sites, usually it is pretty readable). Anyway, once you've got a way to make HTML, you need a place to put it and view it. You can try running a web server on your own PC if you are comfortable setting up port forwarding and such - again, this is free (most ISP's are OK with you doing this as long as you don't have a site that gets a TON of traffic). To do this, download and install a copy of Apache (it's free from www.apache.org). There are tons of help guides on getting this working available on the internet. If you get it setup right, you can have your own personal PC run as a temporary web server while you're learning. Then once you're ready to "go live," you can publish it elsewhere for a fair amount of money by using one of the suggestions someone else mentioned above or finding your own solution on Yahoo or Google.

[elroy]

If you use Netscape you can try out Netscape Composer. It is part of Netscape. It is free and has templates to start with and you can use html to tweak your work. It is a basic WYSIWYG program.