Comments on: Starting Your Own Web Site? It’s Still Difficult

By: Jim Ward

Jim Ward — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:06:37 +0000

I must disagree with you, Sharron. I don’t have any knowledge of WordPress and don’t feel the need to, but in learning math, you start with arithmetic first. Same way with web publishing app’s. Learn the basics first, then maybe the harder stuff, the complicated software, won’t be confusing. Those that want to skip the basics and jump right into blogs, WordPress, whatever, are just asking for problems. That’s why software/customer support has never been a job that appealed to me. “There’s no ‘ANY’ key” is a good example. I would hate have to deal with folks who don’t take the time to learn the basics.

By: Sharron Field

Sharron Field — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:01:36 +0000

Well Jim, it’s certainly a good idea to learn html, xml, and php coding. I see where you’re coming from, and in short there is no short answer.

However WordPress is an extremely versatile blogging platform: There’s not a lot that you can’t do with it. If nothing else it is a good and solid framework to start off with, and to customise from that point onwards. In doing so one can learn and develop one’s php and html coding as one goes along.

Certainly in my own case it’s been quite a bit of an eye-opener in that respect. I would suggest that anyone who can be bothered to learn any type of coding skills starts off from the basic WordPress paltform and works their way up from there.

By: Jim Ward

Jim Ward — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:19:33 +0000

Who cares about WordPress. Big deal! Learn some HTML coding, get a freebie editor, low-cost software or even FrontPage and go from there. Take some time away from your gaming or other stuff and learn something for a change! I have no sympathy for that guy who wants a quick & short answer. I invested quite a bit of time and T&E into learning how to do my own site. I suggest that guy who’s having the WordPress problem do the same.

By: Jeff Burns

Jeff Burns — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:16:36 +0000

If you want to do it right with all the help you need, know exactly what your first year will cost WITH a 100% money back guarantee then the only way to go is SBI. I’ve just started but I can already see the light at the end of the tunnel. And it works great for established webmasters too.

By: 42jack923

42jack923 — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:11:50 +0000

I have done a personal website, nothing fancy, but it works. I use Hostmonster to host and Eversoft 1st Page for my design. With a little practice it all does OK with my multi page site. You just have to work through things and a free course I found helpful was the HP first website one and the html one also.
Hostmonster has a Java applet, unlimited FTP, for transfering files.
Hope this may help someone.

By: scopy

scopy — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:00:51 +0000

Try picking a host that already has a cms or content publishing system loaded on. This will help a lot.

By: Sharron Field

Sharron Field — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:48:19 +0000

Well the way I did it when I started my blog back in June 2008, (I’d run an html-style website before that; so I’d already done a lot of the basics on another domain beforehand.) was to dive in and try to swim: look it up or work it out for self as I went along.

Would I reccommend that others do that? It depends on who. Did it work in my case? I’m still blogging.

By: joshp1

joshp1 — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:29:34 +0000

I am know trying to tell someone how webdesign and web sites work it takes a lot of time to explain to get them to understand. Luckly i have taking classes in web design and development

By: Jared

Jared — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 01:09:23 +0000

You would think in 2009 we would be making advances into simplying things.. Just a TAD.. Fun post..

By: Cincinnati Credit Repair

Cincinnati Credit Repair — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:09:40 +0000

To start your own website you need a complete team of developers link builders and SEO. It seems to be really difficult for a single person to do every thing.