Learn how to create your website from scratch

How can I create my web site? Is it long ,complicated or for professionals?
All these questions that appear mysterious will be answered in this part of the "Learn how to create your website from scratch" series.
Making your own website is easy and exciting! You don't have to be an expert, all you need is the right tutorial that shows you how to from scratch!
In an earlier post I wrote about how to create your own blog in less than 5 minutes ! You can have a look at that if all you want is to create a blog without wanting to know what goes on behind the scenes. But if you are curious and want to learn beyond dragging and dropping things around, follow these series!

Ready?what? did I hear yes? OK let's dig in!

These series are composed of the following parts:

• Basics of XHTML
• Make it better with CSS!
• Combined XHTML & CSS and enjoy their strength!
• The dos and don'ts when designing a website!

Each part will have its chapters and sub chapters where necessary!
So let's go ahead and look at chapter one today!

Part 1 :Basics of XHTML
In today's lesson, we are going to learn what XHTML is and  what we need to
create a simple web page!

Chapter 1 : Before you begin!
I think a little bit of introduction will not hurt! They call me Jay and I will be your guide throughout this course.... I will try and ensure that learning is a pleasure for you! We will spend some time together and that depends on your learning pace!



What is XHTML?

Since these series are all about creating your website from scratch, I will explain the meaning of XHTML in layman's language! Look at the computer as multilingual person. But the languages it speaks , are not human languages like English or French but computer languages like XHTML, CSS,C++ etc. 
XHTML or Extensible Hypertext Markup Language ,is a language that is used to render web pages. To create a website, you must provide information to the computer. It is not enough to simply type the text that will be in your site, you must also know how to place the text, insert images, make links etc.
And how exactly am I going to do that? That's what am going to teach you, just relax , refill your coffee and wait for the master to do the magic!
Enough of the blah blah,let's get some serious work done! XHTML has its own set of rules just like human languages have grammar rules! These rules are called tags. I put that in red because we will be seeing it everywhere in this course.


What do I need to created XHTML pages?
  
Nothing other than your determination,your preferred text editor and a web browser. I use gedit because am Ubuntu fanatic but you can use notepad or notepad++ if your are using Windows.
What I like about gedit or notepad++ is,it colors your code. 

Well, that's enough for today, I don't want the lessons to be long and tedious! 

If you like this post please leave a comment and check back for Chapter 2!

Till then, XoXo