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You can make your own website. And it can be as easy or as complicated as you want it to be. To create a website, you have a few options available. You can build it all by yourself. There’s no need to be intimidated. You can start out small with a basic website and learn more as you go along. Once your nice, simple site is up and running you can add more bells and whistles. I built my first couple of websites this way - and they're still going strong today. The first website I created was Dog Pet Names. The second was Mom's Baby Names. Most websites are built using a code called HTML (It stands for Hyper Text Markup Language). Don’t worry, coding a website is not very complicated. It's made up of a bunch of tags. You type in all your text (content of your page) and then you place tags around different parts of the text. This makes it display properly on the internet. For instance, to make a word or section of text bold, you'll wrap it between these tags: <b>your text</b>. You'll put whole paragraphs between these tags: <p>your paragraph</p>. You'll put your entire text between these tags: <body>your entire text</body>. And there are many more tags to get your website looking exactly like you want. Don't worry, you won't need to memorize the code or tags to make your own website. Just print out the code and tag list and refer to it as you're building your site. That's what I do. To learn about HTML and get the code and tags I recommend going to - www.davesite.com. This guy offers fantastic, free tutorials on how to make your own website. I recommend that after you take each lesson, you print them out. This way you'll have them beside you as you build your site. Don't worry about the other tutorials on his site right now. You can create a website with just the basic HTML. After you get comfortable with the basics, then you can move on to the more complicated stuff if you want to. It's entirely up to you. You could also use an automatic website builder. They’re provided by most web hosting companies. All you have to do is pick one of their designs (website templates) and type in your content. The website builder does all the coding for you. It's the easiest and fastest method to make your own website, but you often give up design flexibility. You're limited to their designs (website templates). You can hire someone else to build your website - but it can get expensive. Especially if you're like me and enjoy changing your website frequently. No matter which option you choose to create a website, I recommend learning a little HTML. It will give you more confidence and design possibilities. And you'll be surprised how much fun you'll have - when you type in some code and text and watch it come to life before your eyes. When you make your own website remember this - you can start out small and add more bells and whistles as time goes by.
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