I have dealt with a vast array of clients during the past 8 years that I have been doing web design and web coding. Many of these clients assume that it is necessary to possess a degree in design or programming, or to have much more experience than they have achieved, in order to create a website. This is a common misunderstanding. Creating a website is much easier than most people think - and it should be fun!

It helps when beginning this process to have in mind already how you wish to go about the design phase when you create a web site. Graphic software helps, but in all honesty, it is no longer wholly needed these days if you're just creating a simple site for your own use. A lot of free image sites exist which can resize images or even add graphic effects, or else make changes like changing photos to black and white.

When you create a website, many kinds of services all over the internet are available, for either free web hosting or paid web hosting. For those who are new to creating websites, it might be better to set up with free hosting at first as you learn skills for creating better and more improved sites. The advantage of using free hosting services is that many such sites also provide free HTML editors.

"What You See Is What You Get" or WYSISYG HTML editors are the most practical and effective programs for newcomers to website design. This approach allows you to display all aspects of your page on the screen and preview how it will look after it is published. For those just starting out who are not yet well versed in the terminology, this is much easier that completely coding a website by hand in a .txt file.

As your skill with both coding and website design increase, you may think about changing to software other than the free WYSIWYG editor to build your sites. There are some editors available that combine WYSIWYG with viewing of the code that you use to create your website. As you gain competence in more complex levels of coding, these types can be more efficient than your standard WYSIWYG editor.

In any case, learning to create a website can be a fun and challenging pasttime. As you grow more skilled in creating for the web, you can even grow to offer your design skills for sale in helping others create sites. This is how I started with web design back in high school, and today I do this for a living. While it takes patience and experimentation, in time, it is a fun skill that anybody can learn to do.