How to build a website?

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Originally Posted by saden1

Do you want a dynamic website or a static website? Static site is pure HTML and no user interaction goes on, where as in a dynamic website you will have to write back-end code that handles user requests and displays data from another source (i.e. database). Building dynamic website from the ground up is no small feat and if you want to do that I would suggest you pickup a few books (on Ruby on Rail, Javascript, HTML, and CSS). Better yet, take a course on the subject at your local community college.

I think that since im completely new to this that I should start off easier than building something from scratch. I guess you see tons of things out there like:

http://www.homestead.com/~site/hslo/website/features.ffhtml
http://www.godaddy.com/hosting/website-builder.aspx
http://www.intuit.com/website-building-software/?pd=t&s_cid=CJ

Has anyone used any of these or others before with good results?


Here is a review site that I looked at:

http://www.buildwebsite4u.com/building/free-website-builders.shtml

I have my domain with 1 & 1 so that’s likely who I was going to start with, then I decided to ask thewarpath. So my thoughts are building a website with one of these cookie cutter builders might teach me a little bit especially without knowing anything about css, javascript or html. I want something uncomplicated to start out with. But im completely ignorant when it comes to these things so maybe im over thinking it, and should just get started with the builder 1and1 offers?