How To Build and Customize Your Own WebSite

How to Make a Website

wikiHow has a good overview on the steps needed when creating a web site. It includes the initial steps of answering "What is the purpose of your web site?" and gathering content, then selecting a hosting service and creating the site pages.

A good place to start no matter what you plan to use to create your web site.

W3Schools

A good place to start if you want to create web pages or a web site. Covers everything from the basics of web pages (HTML) and page formatting (CSS) to making web pages cool (JavaScript and jQuery) to more advanced topics.

Includes Try it Yourself buttons that let you see and interact with examples using just your web browser. Highly Recommended.

W3 School's HTML Tutorial

Use W3 School's HTML Tutorial as a starting point to understanding the hypertext markup language (HTML) used on the World Wide Web. The site can be used as an introduction, or allow you to plumb the depths of HTML and Internet coding.

HTML Goodies

With over 700 tutorials, this site helps new and growing website developers learn their trade, and provides tips, guides and reference sets they can use as they become more accomplished.

Yale's Web Style Guide

The style manual at Yale has been adopted by many schools and universities. Topics include graphical displays and positioning of information. Just as teachers have shown students models for writing essays for decades now Web page production models can be illustrated.