Hello, I want to make a website completely from scratch. By that I mean I don't want to use Wordpress, Blogger or Weebly, webs etc. I really have no idea about this, I tried googling but it got me more confused :\ Some sites said use Dreamweaver and so many other software and many were like use weebly, webs, etc. Can someone please guide me from where to start ?
All you need to do is learn how to create HTML web pages then upload them to your server using an FTP program. vtc offer great video training courses - and have 32 free lessons on HTML 5 Unless a url includes a specific *.html page name, by default the server will attempt to open a page named index.html - so you should give your home page this name. There are lots of free tools for creating HTML pages - such as Kompozer or an updated version of the old Mozilla HTML Editor in SeaMonkey browser. These are very simple allowing you to add images, tables, background and foreground colours with all sizes of text. Firefox has an FTP add on called Fire FTP - all free. The main downside of simple free tools is the lack of CSS (cascaded style sheet) support. You can create your own CSS files or set styles in your HTML pages - but this soon gets quite tedious. If you don't use styles or CSS files then default font styles etc defined by each visitors browser will be used to display text - something you should avoid if at all possible. Even if you want to use HTML instead of wordpress, I'd recommend looking for templates suitable for any pages you want to create - otherwise you really will be re-inventing the wheel!