Making a website

I knew nothing about html/css when I wanted to try my own site. Luckily i had a friend that designs pages. I dont know how to create a page from scratch, but i do know how to modify one. Once the layout is correct, there are a ton of open source image viewers out there I use simpleviewer.) All you do is plug the code in and your done.

I use open source coding and heavily modify it to suite my needs. Check out http://www.oswd.org They have a ton of templates that are wonderful starting points. From there you just modify the code to your liking.

The two pages I have are: http://www.widsa.com and http://homepages.wmich.edu/~j2cervin
 
Make sure you own the domain name and have control over it. Your shopping cart you will want someone else to host, the biggest cost of owning a website is hosting the selling on it and the cost to develop it. If you want to sell prints find someone who will deal with the financial transaction at a percentage. Owning the domain name and cost of hosting the site you can do for a reasonable price. You want to pay and register the domain name, that way you always own it. You should learn some of how the site is done, if you can change and or add more photos yourself it will save you money rather than having to pay for maintenance. If you hire someone to do your site, pick locally and make sure you and your developer meet in person, have them show you how to maintain it and be able to change minor aspects and if you want over time you can learn enough to take over all the work. I cannot state strongly enough make sure you have control of the Domain Name, this is vital, I have seen people have disagreements with their designers and the name is held hostage. The more you can learn the more control you end up with over looks and updates. With hosting look at packages and go with someone who will let you up or downgrade once you get a better handle on what your bandwidth needs are. One more thing, once you find a domain you want you should just get it and pass on the parking, the cost is negligible I have owned sites that I wanted to develop and never got around to it, but as long as owned them I could do or not do, they were mine. You don't have to wait for hosting, some places offer the name with hosting but in the fine print many still own the name should you want to change hosts and it can just lead to headaches, just pay for it, and you own it.
 
i have a blogger page myself (found in my sig) blogger gives the option to do many things and you can use either templates, modify said templates or cmpletely create new HTML, i modified the plainest template using tutorials online...
 

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