Designing your first website can be daunting even when a small business or personal web site just wants a plain simple page. All I want is something simple, nothing fancy or complicated, I just need a web presence with my business details. Simple I hear you say!
Then dawns the reality of having to deal with the intricacies of HTML programming, complicated editors and FTP clients. Without prior knowledge of HTML and uploading data all this can leave you feeling utterly lost or worst still persuade you to give in at the first hurdle and that promised website never gets built.
There is a third and better way, find yourself a Web Host that can offer you website hosting with the advantages of an online website editor, most come with a selection of pre-built templates and a library of extra graphics. Now the task of designing your own website becomes so much easier, nearly all good online website editors use a similar menu system as Microsoft Word so you will probably already know how to drive it. With a little extra flair you can have your personal website up and running in less than an hour.
The advantages of this form of website hosting and graphical design is you need know nothing about HTML and nothing about templates or ftp clients. The technical aspect of compiling your website along with uploading all your graphics are done automatically with the final publishing of your finished website taking only seconds to complete. All good online website editors use a standard graphical menu system much like Microsoft Word which allows the manipulation of data on your web pages using a system called WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) you design your website visually by adding, moving and modifying as you go along. You no long need to spend hours planing your websites look and feel because you see it straight away and if it does not look right you can change it in real time.