subject: Designing Websites [print this page] Web Design has become one of the most up and coming businesses of the 21st century. If you want to market your business online you need a website or alternatively you need to write a blog. You don't have to be an internet genius to create a website. With free blogging websites such as WordPress or Tumblr you can submit blogs for free with a URL of your choosing and also have the opportunity to customize your page. Free content management systems like WordPress or Square space can help you organize the content and transform blog post to an online store. Lastly the use of HTML and CSS are simple coding languages you can use.
Over the past 10 years online blogging has become very popular and over that time has developed a standardized approach. However, using a website like Tumblr to host a blog has really become popular in the last five years or so. This is because the hosting site has taken care of the hard part for the user: the coding and design of the site. These sites even offer professional looking templates that can be modified with a few clicks of the mouse, with little or no knowledge of the code that makes them run. This will benefit anyone eager to market themselves on the web.
For the user who needs a more complex site design that includes more functionality, content management systems (CMS) are great alternatives to designing a website from scratch. The online too CMS is an extremely effective tool that guides the user in setting up a website with a number of different features. Of course, another great part of WordPress is that it offers its CMS software for free. Creating an online business using CMS make seem like a tricky process for the novice user but it still can be done. There are many great online tutorials that can be used to help a user a guide them through any problems they may have along the way.
lastly, there are specific easy to use coding languages which offer endless benefits in web design. HyperText Markup Language (HTML) and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are the instruments of choice for Web 2.0 site designers. Every designer should learn these languages and understand them as they will become an important influence in Web Design. With these two languages, a web developer can build a site from scratch or modify the templates found on a blog hosting website or CMS install. Online free tutorials are available online to help you.
The three tools discussed may take time and effort to learn but the benefits of becoming skilled in this particular area are endless. Before getting started on your page, take some time to become familiarized with each of these options. The free blogging tool Tumblr may best fit your needs better than more advanced tools like CMS. The most difficult part of Web Design has been eliminated from the equation allowing anyone with a creative mind to design on the internet..
