Jobless? Learn to Make a Website

MyFoxHouston - Most experts agree -- the downtime you have between jobs should be used to improve your skills, and the web is full of tools and tutorials that will help you learn how to build a webpage.

Even if you don't want to be a web designer, knowing how to build or simply edit your company's existing page is a valuable asset.

The website "Page Tutor" explains everything you need to know about Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). HTML is the scripting, or code, that builds websites. Page Tutor goes through the process and explains how webpages show up on the web in an easy-to-understand description.

If you're looking for a simpler solution, you can use a WYSIWYG editor. This is a program that lets you make a web page just like you would a Word document, thus, What You See Is What You Get.

Programs like Microsoft Frontpage, Adobe Dreamweaver, and Microsoft Expression let you edit HTML without actually knowing it.
On top of an HTML editor, you'll also want a program to edit photos, like Adobe Photoshop. This will let you make basic graphics and modify photos to fit the look and style of the webpage you build.

These programs combined can cost hundreds of dollars brand new, but you don't need the latest version. Used, legal copies can be found for $20-50 on eBay.

By slowly reading the tutorials and playing around with the web editor and photo program, you can quickly learn how to build and edit quality web pages, but you have to have patience and the desire to learn.

- PageTutor: http://www.pagetutor.com/
- W3Schools HTML tutorials: http://www.w3schools.com/
- Microsoft Expression: http://www.microsoft.com/expression/
- Adobe Photoshop: http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/compare/