I want to start a home based web design...

darth_mikeyd · #1 (**permalink**) 02-11-2007, 02:05 AM

...business. What is the best way to start?

Nerd Boy · #2 (**permalink**) 02-11-2007, 05:40 PM

First I would suggest getting hosting that you can put all the sites on, and if you are really going to go commercial with the business...buy your own server and get it hosted in a data center.

Kittara · #3 (**permalink**) 02-11-2007, 11:03 PM

You may want to check out freeservers.com they have free pages & the hosting fees aren't that bad when you want to upgrade.Then you will want to start learning something about HTML/XHTML so that you can check coding of your pages. A good HTML/XHTML editor is PageBuilder (it's gone public domain now) Another thing you can do is get the Yahoo SiteBuilder. It's a WYSIWYG editor and can help you learn to code. But remember that your pages may not work in all browsers unless you are using XHTML.You'll have to pick your own software for that kind of editor. I'm still looking too.