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If you're not looking to make money with a website, and rather operate a simple
blog or small-scale personal website, a free website hosting or free blog service
is perfect.
Tripod provides 1GB of free web space to users, allowing them to create quite large
personal website. Websites here feature a Tripod controlled
advert at the
top of every page, and don't provide any opportunity to make any profit. Limited
website design software is provided online allowing you to create
your website for free.
At Blogger, users can setup free blog accounts and add content to them whenever
they wish, through a web interface.
Create a free website at Tripod
Create a free blog at Blogger.com
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These days, as more businesses realise the potential of online advertising, it
has become very possible for website creators to make money from their sites. In
order to do this, you need to spend a little.
However, with a bit of work, this money can be earnt back supprisingly quickly.
Our recommended mid-range website design software is Adobe Dreamweaver CS3. This
costs around £160 RRP and can be purchased directly from Adobe or your local
computer shop.
In combination with Dreamweaver, we'd also recommend an image editing software package,
such as Adobe Photoshop.
Dreamweaver at Adobe.com
Photoshop at Adobe.com
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To really create unique, powerful and capable websites, a number of software programs
are required. For this kind of website, you'll probably be thinking about using
technologies such as PHP, ASP.NET, XML or XHTML.
At this level, you may want to consider Microsoft Visual Studio - a high-performance
software programming suite, including programming ASP.NET with Visual Basic .NET
or C#. In a similarly visual way to Dreamweaver, Visual Studio lets you create comlicated
websites in a relatively easy way. If you want to try out Visual Studio, you can
download the free Express editions.
You may also want to consider using Adobe Dreamweaver as well, for more artistic
website design. Depending on the planned website, you could also use some
database software such as mySQL or Microsoft SQL Server.
Visual Studio Express
Web
mySQL
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Microsoft SQL Server
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