The Freeloader’s Guide to Having a Website

Sure, there’s that saying that nothing’s free in the world anymore; the very air we breathe and every drop of water we drink has a hefty price tag attached to it that we’re just not aware of. However, with the birth of the Internet, that saying has been proven to be untrue; the internet literally teems with loads of freebies, you can actually have your own site without paying as much as a cent.

Although you’d still have to pay for the electricity and internet access; all the other web technical stuff are yours for the taking. If you’re wondering how they’re able to do this, notice how many advertisements you have to deal with once you get your site up and running. But nevertheless, the ads are insignificant for the most part, so here’s how to get started on freeloaders website.

The first step in making the best website possible website using the least possible money - or maybe even none at all - is to prepare and research so that you’ll know what to do with the stuff that you’re going to mess around with. Later on you’ll be depending on trial versions of everything, so it would be best if you didn’t lag around and start learning things just after you’ve downloaded something that can expire within thirty days or less.

Learn all the possible codes and web languages that you can learn, and think that you will need in the making of a website: HTML is the very basic, with CSS as a close second and if you want to, some flash and JavaScript will also benefit your site greatly if used in the right way.

If you don’t have time to learn all those codes (or are simply too lazy to do it), then just consider searching for good WYSIWYG editors and compare them with each other to get the one that you think is the best for you. Another alternative may be Sitegrinder, which is like WYSIWYG editor but spits out CSS coding instead of HTML. This is a plug-in to be used with Photoshop, so it would be best if you downloaded them at the same time.

The next step would be to plan out your website. Create a web map of sorts, so that you know where to put things when you already have the programs necessary downloaded into your computer. Also consider sketching out your layout in paper so that you have a plan. The basic concept here is to plan in the future for what you will do so that you won’t waste time making decisions or fumbling around. Sure, you can get things for free, but some of them are just a trial, so you had better be quick about using them lest you want your work wasted because the trial time expired just as you were about to finish your work.

Finally, the last would be to download everything you need: Photoshop, Flash, any other thing you want to download for your website, the works. Then set about doing what you’ve planned in the past two steps; it wouldn’t do to waste any time dilly-dallying especially since the programs you are using are only borrowed and can’t be used when the trial time ends.

You may think of using a Sitegrinder keygen or such things to own a copy of the program that you are using in an illegal way, but don’t do it. It’s illegal, and it could put you behind bars just for wanting to continue a website you made in the cheapest way possible.

Sitegrinder
Contains tutorials and such on building your own website from Photoshop without any manual coding.