How can I start building my own WebPages

[Napoleon]

I would like to learn how I could build websites. I bet allot of the people here know how to do it and most likely you will know where to start.
I don't have any knowledge of programming language.
I want to make websites to develop my own business; I have time so I want to learn how to do it myself instead of depending on other people.

So where do I start?

HTML?
All those others I don't know....?
Witch books should I read, witch programs should I use, where are the useful WebPages, witch programming language is the best to learn?

Just get me on the road to writing my own nice webpages

[Phenylethylene]

Hm, I'll probably be shot for saying this, but I work primarily with ASP which can be configured quickly if you have a Windows XP machine and vbscript is a very easy language to learn. You can also use MS Access for database development, which is terrible to use for any serious application, but good for learning due to it's simplicity and ease of configuration. Your avatar causes me to doubt whether this question is necessary, but let's start here -- which OS's do you have access to?

[Napoleon]

Hm, I'll probably be shot for saying this, but I work primarily with ASP which can be configured quickly if you have a Windows XP machine and vbscript is a very easy language to learn. You can also use MS Access for database development, which is terrible to use for any serious application, but good for learning due to it's simplicity and ease of configuration. Your avatar causes me to doubt whether this question is necessary, but let's start here -- which OS's do you have access to?

Like you suspected i am working with MacOSX

[Phenylethylene]

I probably won't be of much help then. If you can't or don't want to set up your own web server, I believe Heero hosts for free (http://travisbsd.org/). You'll probably want a good image editor for design, ApeTheDog suggests GIMP (free)-- I've never used it but I think a Mac version is here: http://www.gimp.org/macintosh/. In regards to HTML, I simply started with a reference manual, but there is enough on the web that it is not necessary. O'Reilly makes some good web programming books, but I only read half of an introductory one to get me started then found everything else on the web as I needed it.

[jread]

Download Dreamweaver off the internet, *get* a CD-key for it, start creating webpages. It is a very powerful, VERY easy-to-use website building software and it will do everything you want. It also lets you view the HTML code of whatever page you're working on, so that way you can begin to learn HTML on your own by seeing exactly what each tag does. Also, there are countless free website/webpage tutorials all over the internet.

[Napoleon]

So basicly HTML is the way to go and to leant building webpages.
I wil get Dreamweaver and start fooling around abit by using some online manuals.
But if you would know a realy good guide or something like that feel free to post it. I know it is easy to search to web, but if i would get some feedback of good resources its even better.

[Nighthawk]

I learned HTML many moons ago with one of the SAMS book series. One of the current ones is at:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0672325209/qid=1110561126/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/104-5057646-9875951

Adobe GoLive is also a good web authoring tool and it interfaces well with Photoshop. It's pretty much personal preference between that or Dreamweaver. I'd say Dreamweaver has the market share though.

[CoHo]

http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp

[Sir Isaac Lime]

As for the code itself, you should breeze right through HTML. See what you like on various sites and locate how it's done in the source.

[Boneca]

A tip is to use something like BBEdit (http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/productivity_tools/bbedit.html) when you write html code...it's much easier than using a normal text editor.

And remember if you use Mac OS X (I do too): what looks good in Safari can look crap in Netscape. Always check in both!

[YardGnome]

Use MySQL for DB development it's much better than Acess BLEGH!

[Birdsnest]

http://www.furnituresociety.org/prof/webshop/intro.html

has a little tutorial on web page building, but I haven't tried it myself. I bought a book called HTML for dummies, but the websites for graphics look like they will put curses on you if you use their graphics on your website. So, maybe you have to buy some software like paintshop to do graphics.

http://www.furnituresociety.org/prof/webshop/how.html

http://graphicssoft.about.com/?once=true&
http://personalweb.about.com/cs/beginninghtml/a/aa030809_2.htm

aha! the last website shows how you can "borrow" source code from your favorite websites, by clicking view at top of browser and clicking source.