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As a person who has worked on web design and web coding for eight consecutive years for numerous different clients, I have met many customers who think that in order to create a website, one has to have a college degree in design or programming and have extensive experience than they have or hope to obtain. Contrarily, creating a website can be a lot of fun, and easier than you anticipate it to be.

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 are looking to create a website, there are several services available online that provide web hosting for free as well as for pay. For those who are new to website creation, free hosting may be a good place to start to build up your skill levels to create ever better sites. The biggest benefit to many of these free hosting sites is that they offer 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 you become more advanced over time in designing and coding, in time you may consider using different software other than a free WYSIWYG editor to create your sites. There are editors one can use that are combination WYSIWYG and viewing the code used to create your site. As you grow to learn more complex coding, these may be more efficient than what a straight WYSIWYG editor can accomplish.

At any rate, mastering the abilities needed to create a website can be an enjoyable and mind-expanding way to spend some time. When you have gained some practice, you might even want to advertise and make money helping others to develop their sites too. That was how I got into the field of web design when I was a student in secondary school. Nowadays, I am a professional at it. Although you have to be patient and willing to experiment, anyone can become proficient given enough time and hands-on experience.