It is a good idea to decide on the tools you will use to build your website early on. This will help you make other technical decisions along the way.
To decide which tools/ software are the best to use for your website ask yourself some of these questions:
- Is it a blog?
- Will it have a lot of articles? Would a content management system (CMS) be a good option?
- Do I need to have complete control on every aspect of my site?
- Do I need any functionality built into the site?
If you want to build a blog you can do so using WordPress which is a free blog software. Check out my blog for an example of a Wordpress blog. Also my recipes section .
Joomla is a free content management system which you can also use to build your website. Check out the Joomla version of my recipes site for an example of a Joomla website. Joomla also has many extensions that you can easily install to exapand its functionalities.
Both Wordpress and Joomla can be easily installed via Fantastico (literally with the click of a button!) which is available when you sign up with a web host like Hostgator (which is what I use). Then it is simply a matter of putting in your content. For more details on installing them, refer to the links in the related resources section below.
If you need to have complete control over your site, using an HTML editor coupled with a graphic editor would be the best option.
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