If you know nothing about building websites, this guide can help you build your very first website, by following the direction. A website is consists of HTML documents, that contain text for the pages, together with tags codes, which define the layout of the page, and the images that will appear on it. How the text will look, the colors used, and everything else about the page. There are a lot of different web-page creation software that can be used for developing a website.

Their is a variety of software available to develop websites such as; Macromedia Dream weaver, Adobe Go-live, Photoshop, Fireworks and Microsoft Front-page. These are the most common used ones today. But if you cannot afford any of these software, you can create a website with Microsoft Word. Websites vary hugely, but they often have a pyramidal structure. Every website has a “home page” which a visitor typically has a choice of several different subsections of the site to explore.

The first thing you need to do is to layout the website on a sheet of paper. You need a navigation section that will contain buttons for moving around the site, which can be on either side of the page. Save the entire web images in a compressed file format, (JPEG or GIF) otherwise they are too large and take too long to travel over the Internet. Next check that each page looks and works as intended, you can view it by opening its HTML document within a web browser.

After testing all the files for a website, they are transferred to a computer called a web server. It often resides at the offices of an Internet service provider. To view a web page, a user connects to the Internet using a hyperlink or types the page's address into a web browser. Once the HTML file is loaded into the computer's web browser, signals are sent to the web server requesting that other files comprising the web page be sent. The browser interprets the tags in the HTML file and assembles the entire file into a layout on the screen.