Creating your own website free

Today there are millions of websites online. You do a search andfind 1000's of site offering anything from clothing to houses.Who creates these sites for them? A great portion of these sitesare privately owned, the person who started the site writes itthemselves. How?About four years ago I had an idea that I wanted to start anonline business. It took me four years to decide on what it wasthat I wanted to sell. After I decided I wanted to breed andsell my ball pythons, it was now time to get started on how tocreate my website. To do this I purchased two books. These bookshelped me to understand html, and helped me to start creating mywebsite. I know there are website building programs and that Icould have someone else build it for me, but the good programsand the people who create websites for you are very costly. Oneof the best programs out there today is Dreamweaver, but thisprogram costs around $300. To have someone else build your sitecan coast you upwards of $2000. The basic price is around $20per page. The books that I had purchased were Elizabeth Castro, HTML forthe World Wide Web, and the idiots guide, creating a web page.These books are very simple to follow and are very easy to read.After purchasing them I began to read and within minutes I had abasic page with some sample text and images on it. After the first week I had created over 50 pages for my site,and they look great. Once you get the hang of the html code youcan create any style website you wish. To write pages I am oldschool and love to use my notepad. Once I write the page I thensave it as whatever I want, an example of how I save issample.htm. You need to about the .htm in order for your browserto understand it. If you're surfing around the net and see something you like on awebsite you can right click your mouse and view source. You willthen search through the code to find what part of the site youlike then copy and paste it into your site. Please be sure tonote copy and paste anything with copyrights. This is Illegaland you can get sued for it. I have found many things on othersite I like and use on my site, but this stuff is just the htmlcode, like frames, tables, colors, backgrounds, and layouts. Tome this is just a continuation of my educating myself oncreating better and more interesting pages. Other ways to find things is to do an internet search, I use Google.com. There are thousands of free advice sites on the net.There are even places that help you with code problems for free,just do a search.Good luck with your new site, and when you're finished andpublished stop by and leave me a comment, I would love to seeyour site.To see what my site looks like stop by and visit:www.ballpythonplanet.com. I hope you have enjoyed this articleand while you're at my site be sure to leave your mark in myguestbook, as well as sign up for my ball python forum.