I Want to start a website any advice?

[Ben Lessani]

Remember myspace was started by one guy, bebo was started by one guy with very little input and aol were stupid enough to buy that for over a million 

Are you really comparing your ability to that of the people that started those businesses?

I'll wish you the best of luck - but I was just giving you a very honest response.

Unless you were a seasoned developer - or have money to spend on one, I can't see you getting any traction at all.

[novadragon007]

Remember myspace was started by one guy, bebo was started by one guy with very little input and aol were stupid enough to buy that for over a million 

Are you really comparing your ability to that of the people that started those businesses?

I'll wish you the best of luck - but I was just giving you a very honest response.

Unless you were a seasoned developer - or have money to spend on one, I can't see you getting any traction at all.

If you had read the entire post there was no comparison of abilities at all I was likening to the situation of 1 person 1 idea and where those people/companies started do you think they were born with the ability to design webpages?

[Diamond Hell]

This

seems like everyone is making a mountain out of a molehill here

and this.

i'd suggest Joomla (as DH said) and using a template which is readily available (pay for a decent one) to upload and manipulate very easily

Really, really don't p*ss about with Dreamweaver.  You will wind up trying to build a better wheel.  A better wheel that's already had hundreds of developers working on it to make it really, really good.

Use what's already out there, built to do what you want to do.  There will be a module.

People who think 'getting traction' is down to having a good developer.    Pure comedy.

It's all about presenting yourself effectively, with the right things in place to allow that presentation to flourish.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to build a website.  It takes someone with some marketing nouse and a bent for publicity to build a good, and far more importantly VALUABLE website.

Ben Lessani: haughty. 

[Ben Lessani]

This thread is beyond ridiculous - the OP is so far out of his depth its not even funny.

[Diamond Hell]

Shouldn't you be off making code pretty?

[Ben Lessani]

Shouldn't you be off making code pretty?

My developers do that, my job is to count my millions

[golf-sib]

Just jump on a web development software and fiddle around, whatever you want to achieve you will do and learn from google, if not plenty of books to aid and reference you, web design for dummies is a good intro.

Me and my nephew started doing websites not long ago and it is hard work, there's html, java, jquery, php.... but its part of the learning curve, especially when you come to test it on browsers, in the end we decided everyone who uses IE can f*ck themselves 

Also social media helps alot, we have started doing a website for my brothers MMA school that he has setup in his spare time and we have a twitter, youtube and fb as the social media's again this is a learning curve in its own right as I had to learn how to actually use a DSLR camera for indoors, first photography night was awful not to my brothers amusement, second time round we got some good picture. Now we have done a pretty awful youtube video as it was filmed on a potato  But its part of the fun and keeps us going.

If you set your mind to it, the sky's your limits for everything else just hit it with a hammer or a brick.

[dragongreengolfgti]

This thread is beyond ridiculous - the OP is so far out of his depth its not even funny.

You have no idea what my mind and contacts are capable of and I believe what I want will be done so jog on now!
saying that it is possible i will fail but being me i understand that is a 10% chance 

Just jump on a web development software and fiddle around, whatever you want to achieve you will do and learn from google, if not plenty of books to aid and reference you, web design for dummies is a good intro.

Me and my nephew started doing websites not long ago and it is hard work, there's html, java, jquery, php.... but its part of the learning curve, especially when you come to test it on browsers, in the end we decided everyone who uses IE can f*ck themselves 

Also social media helps alot, we have started doing a website for my brothers MMA school that he has setup in his spare time and we have a twitter, youtube and fb as the social media's again this is a learning curve in its own right as I had to learn how to actually use a DSLR camera for indoors, first photography night was awful not to my brothers amusement, second time round we got some good picture. Now we have done a pretty awful youtube video as it was filmed on a potato  But its part of the fun and keeps us going.

If you set your mind to it, the sky's your limits for everything else just hit it with a hammer or a brick.

All advice taken mate and i shall try my best  cheers

Mike

[stealthwolf]

I used to do HTML back in the day but that was on builder sites like geocities. Dreamweaver is okay if you have the time. I used it about 10 years ago.

I recently built a business intranet using Joomla. So much easier since the coding is already done. Basically just plug in what you want.

[stealthwolf]

I should also add: look at design layouts and content organisation of other websites. Don't underestimate "white space" and simplicity. Very easy to over clutter. Look at your favourite websites - what do you like about them?

If you use Joomla, look at obtaining Artisteer which will help design you a custom template.