This is the supreme discipline: opening the editor and starting to code. Those who need total liberty will have to make the page themselves. You do need patience for this, and for beginners, it is usually overwhelming.
A good place to start are websites like Codecademy, Mozilla, or W2Schools, which have step-by-step tutorials for beginners. But expect a long journey before your website is ready. Of course, to speed up the process, you can hire a web designer. Just keep in mind that your coder shouldn’t be doing designs and vice versa. The skills required for each of these tasks are very different.
Giving a general price is not easy here, since it depends on the project. You’ll obviously need to pay for hosting, but there are plenty of cheap web hosting providers to choose from. Above all, it will be much more expensive if you need to hire a programmer: paying the $8-15 a month for a website builder will always be cheaper than what any designer or agency will charge for an hour of work.
Some popular development tools are NetBeans, Aptana Studio or Brackets. All allow at least HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and are free. Another option is Webflow, which is a visual source code editor.
Pros:
- The possibilities are unlimited if you know how to program.
- Cost-friendly hosting.
- Maximum flexibility.
Cons:
- No (or costly) support.
- The learning curve is steep.
- The costs are hard to calculate.
- Requires a lot of study and implementation time.
How to program a website
This is the supreme discipline: opening the editor and starting to code. Those who need total liberty will have to make the page themselves. You do need patience for this, and for beginners, it is usually overwhelming.
A good place to start are websites like Codecademy, Mozilla, or W2Schools, which have step-by-step tutorials for beginners. But expect a long journey before your website is ready. Of course, to speed up the process, you can hire a web designer. Just keep in mind that your coder shouldn’t be doing designs and vice versa. The skills required for each of these tasks are very different.
Giving a general price is not easy here, since it depends on the project. You’ll obviously need to pay for hosting, but there are plenty of cheap web hosting providers to choose from. Above all, it will be much more expensive if you need to hire a programmer: paying the $8-15 a month for a website builder will always be cheaper than what any designer or agency will charge for an hour of work.
Some popular development tools are NetBeans, Aptana Studio or Brackets. All allow at least HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and are free. Another option is Webflow, which is a visual source code editor.
Pros:
- The possibilities are unlimited if you know how to program.
- Cost-friendly hosting.
- Maximum flexibility.
Cons:
- No (or costly) support.
- The learning curve is steep.
- The costs are hard to calculate.
- Requires a lot of study and implementation time.
