buliding your website
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pebbleworm
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With an idea. Start with something you love doing, something you can provide a lot of information on. Technical web development stuff are actually easier to come by. 
GamingX
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Well first you have to know what you want to keep on your site or what are you building a site for, start with MS Frontpage, Dreamweaver, these contain tutorials on building websites. Start with them and then as you start learning everything will fall into place...
lol, its better if you start with basic html. like use open notepad and type in those few basic html codes. do it step by step. then proceed to WYSIWYG if you mastered the basics of pure html coding. at least when there is a bug in WYSIWYG softwares, you can go into the codings and manually debug it
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Well, if you have up to now never built one here are some modified instructions I suggested in another thread:
I started personally learning basic html from http://www.htmlgoodies.com/ . Other people may suggest other tutorial sites.
For those mentioning tutorials connected to Dreamweaver, I think you need to mention it's the best but very expensive though, costing several hundred bucks, unless you have a free copy. For learning I would suggest free alternatives.
If by now
you have not done anything yet, following those suggestions,
spend some time learning some basic html. You lose nothing. Know how to make a simple page.
You will need a probably a free html editor to start with, like htmlkit from http://www.chami.com/html-kit/ or one from www.pspad.com
Install it.
Create a simple file, eg with such code:
and save it as index.html as advised above.
Log in to your cpanel account, go to File manager, then public_html ...
Either upload that file your created into that using the available upload link OR create a new file using the buttons there .... paste that code there and save it as index.html
As said above, that will help the administrators to know you are working on your site & it does not stay redundant.
You can access that page at http://www.yoursiteaddress.com or http://www.yoursiteaddress.com/index.html & should see this content:
You could create other files and give them different names, like "aboutme.html " ... & save them in public_html. The address for this for example would be www.yoursiteaddress.com/aboutme.html
In the mean time, look at those really simple tutorials to get some basic knowledge of html & if you want u can delve deeper. Lots of tutorials around. You can learn how to make a simple site, or at least simple pages. It is fun! Later, you may consider other programming languages like php, which are necessary if you want a dynamic site.
You may also consider using a so called CMS or Content Management System which is crudely, a pre-packaged site with lots of customizable possibilities. Someone mentioned Joomla or Drupal above, which dont necessarily require the knowledge of html and other programming languages BUT cetainly someone willing to learn & experiment to install them & customize them to what you want them to be.
If you feel ready to try the latter option, in the control panel you will see the "Fantastico" link, go there & there. There are lots of scripts, including CMS. Select one like Drupal & follow the instructions for the automatic installation.
You can seek further guidance here, after you take some of these basic steps. Lots of helpful community members here will guide you.
