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I need help making a website.

So, my girlfriends parents own their own restaurant, and they want me to make a site for them. They'll pay for the domain name and hosting. I've had experience working with websites and such, but the problem is, I've never had to make a site myself. I've only helped out other people with theirs. It's going to be a professional website, so no free website making sites like that webs garbage.

I've looked into Wordpress, but I'm no coder tbh. It confuses me and I would need help to start it up.

What I need is someone who is generous enough to help me make one/lead me to a very easy tutorial. Preferably the first one, but the other option would be greatly appreciated too.

Thank you.

November 27, 2010

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Carnival

[quote=WebSurfer09]@Carnival: Those are noob videos designed to entice viewers into thinking that it's easy. It's not. Once you get past the surface level of "Oh hey! I can move this box around!", you're going to go through hell.
If you do do it, get Dreamweaver for Dummies. It'll actually help.[/quote]

Will do, thanks.

Reply November 27, 2010
WebSurfer09

@Carnival: Those are noob videos designed to entice viewers into thinking that it's easy. It's not. Once you get past the surface level of "Oh hey! I can move this box around!", you're going to go through hell.
If you do do it, get Dreamweaver for Dummies. It'll actually help.

Reply November 27, 2010
Carnival

@WebSurfer09: Thank you for that very helpful comment.

OT: I looked at a few Dreamweaver videos on the Adobe site, and using that, it doesn't look too hard.

Reply November 27, 2010 - edited
WebSurfer09

It's harder to design a website than you think. Especially from scratch. Especially if you want it professional looking.
It takes years of experience to create a non-buggy site with no help at all.
And yes, I can do it. And no, I can't help you.

Reply November 27, 2010 - edited
Carnival

[quote=Mang]why would you agree to make a website when you don't know how to make a website?[/quote]

I failed to mention I didn't accept it. She just asked me if I could, I haven't said yes yet. I'm just trying to see if I could or not.

@Omegathorion: Thank you.

Reply November 27, 2010 - edited
Omegathorion

Look into Dreamweaver. It's a HTML editor that's IMO easy to use.

However, you should've gotten more experience beforehand. If you try to make a website now, it'll just look boring.

Keywords you might look into are XHTML, CSS, Javascript.

Reply November 27, 2010 - edited