Pointers on easy Web Design?

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Hi WP!

I will be enrolling in a PhD program where i will be studying autism beginning at the end of this summer ie the fall 07 term...

and i guess what i would like to ask is: Are there any BEGINNER web design things that i can learn to do to make a simple webpage?

What i want to do is post summaries and figures and such on science papers that i read on autism (for my research) on a webpage so that i can link it to here and other places and make information from up-to-date autism science papers available and (easily understood) to our community here... i think it would be benficial to many here as well as helping me to really understand the material too.

thing is... i know absolutely nothin about web design... i need help from the very beginning.... like i dont even know where to go to get a decent started webpage or how to make them or anything

i just need something simple... it's mainly gonna be me rewriting a bunch of stuff in laymen's words... but i would like to know how to insert pics as well as hyperlinks.

even just names of good products or servers that provide space ect... would be a great help.

i have much bigger ideas for the webspace and am currently shopping for a webaddress... i just dont know how to build it ect..

Thanks in advance.

There are a lot of good programs out there that help design and manage websites. A couple of common ones are Frontpage and Dreamweaver. There is a lot of information out there for writing different codes. The World Wide Web Consortium has all of the official information. www.w3.org - W3C.

I don't know about hosting though. If you have more specific questions I will help you as much as I can. There seem to be quite a few knowlegable web designers here too!

easiest, no-frills, just-works: Blogger
https://www.blogger.com/start

new kid on the block: Google Pages
http://pages.google.com/-/about.html

both allow you to have a custom url, and they host everything

If you want to build your own server, and don't want to bother creating webpages and coding, install Wordpress
http://wordpress.org/
by the way, they also have a free hosting service:
http://wordpress.com/

You could go down the easy route of getting some webspace with database support and installing a cms system (content management).

Something like wordpress , zomplog or drupal would give you the backend of a site which you could amend with themes and let you deal with the content.

To see what I mean theres a demo zomplog site at
http://demo.opensourcecms.com/zomplog/admin/ username is admin and the password is demo

For hosting Im currently using godaddy which may or may not have been a great idea but it fitted my needs at the time and they offer anonymised domain purchases.

Drupal is http://drupal.org/ wordpress is also pretty configurable if installed on your own site.

If you want to learn from the ground up then try http://www.webdesignfromscratch.com/how ... b-site.cfm

Never understood all this GUI rubbish.

A good text editor is all you need like MED:
http://www.utopia-planitia.de/

But then I am a little bit aspie

k thanks a lot guys... this should help...

i'm not gonna be able to get started right away as i'm trying to finish up stuff at my current lab... but this is just something i would like to do in the near future... so i'll start lookin into those suggestions and probably come back to bug you at a later date...

i just need something to surf the net and explore besides WP whilst i procrasitnate my work lol

If you simply need to display information which is updated regularly a blog is the way to go.

I recommend Wordpress - www.wordpress.com

free to sign up, don't even need to design anything, just pick a theme and off you go!