Howto make website from scratch

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You can put your site on the web using a free host
http://blog.jimmyr.com/List_of_Webhos…

Yeah, it’s long. #1 requested tutorial on my page is how to make your own site though. I guess it beats those “learn html in 24 hours” books in any case. See the freehosts below on how to put your page online.

w3 html and css
http://www.w3schools.com/html/
http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp

Simple HTML/CSS Layout Examples
http://blog.html.it/layoutgala/
http://www.code-sucks.com/css%20layou…
http://www.mycelly.com/
http://www.thenoodleincident.com/tuto…

Simple CSS Formatter
http://csstypeset.com/
HTML testing Sandbox
http://htmlsandbox.com/

CSS cheat sheet
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=…
HTML Cheat sheet
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=…
Group that standardizes html
http://www.w3.org/
MetaTags
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&pw…
doctype
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=…
Adding Images as backgrounds
http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_back…

RGB Color
You can indicate color by using RGB mode too. eg. #336699 is a nice blue google likes to use. It stands for 33 red, 66 green, and 99 blue in hexadecimal. Here’s a RGB color picker
http://www.siteprocentral.com/html_co…

Domains cost money, like $10 a year usually or less. I’m not going to endorse any registrars.

CSS rounded corners
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=…
Change the look when printing (media)
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/media.html
CSS Popular Pages
http://del.icio.us/search/?fr=del_ici…
http://del.icio.us/search/?fr=del_ici…

HTML Validator
http://validator.w3.org/

CSS Validator
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

Some decent text editors
http://www.context.cx/
http://www.pspad.com/
http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/u…
http://www.jedit.org/
http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html
http://www.notetab.com/

html forums
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.ht…
CSS Forums
http://csscreator.com/?q=forum/

Info about “Lorem Ipsum” often seen on template pages
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum

A short explanation of social networking websites and why they are popular.