«I wish to set up my own website, my own way. I'd like to invest no money at all. Where can I start from? And how can I do that?»
This ebook provides an answer to the whole range of questions. We are not going to use neither Office Word nor WordPress, not even specialised sites such as "1and1": our website shall be precisely as we imagine it, without using "templates" and with no mandatory graphical solutions. The text blocks and the images shall be placed just where we wish them to be, not courtesy of the tool we make use of. Because the site is ours and we want to create it the way we like it. In addition, we wish to introduce changes in our website, when and where we want to. We want to be given a full "hand-on" capability, in total freedom and without asking for permission. We want our site to be properly rendered on a PC, on a smartphone, on any other handheld device like a tablet. And we want to be in full control as to what to render, and how. Finally, we want to spend no money. In fact our site is just the very beginning of a journey across the web: if revealing itself a success, then - and then only - we will invest our money on it.
«Yet I definitely am not a computer nerd! How can I achieve all that?»
Sure you can! We will achieve all that with a step-by-step approach, keeping the tech jargon to a minimum and sticking to the essential, with extensive use of "cut and paste" actions from this guidebook. So, no programming classes: by cutting and pasting portions of code, everybody will be able to build up their own sites, right now and with no need for further insight, simply learning how to place text blocks and pictures where it's required within the web page. From a technical standpoint, we will design a very simple website, including no HTML tricks, advanced CSS formatting and Javascript coding. And yet, our site will be ideal for showcasing and spreading our views or selling a product or service, without turning to expensive business services for web development and management. All the examples and methods presented in this ebook are easily replicated at will: you will be able to customise all the available code chunks to create your own site, with your graphical settings, your preferred images and your edited text: you will just have to change the instance code provided in the ebook, pasting it where you wish, and you will achieve any goals! So let's start creating together our own website!
