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Is it hard to design a website? ?

I have not designed one before, but I have experience(late) on html design, and basic c++ . Is visual basic necessary? I am planning on designing a jobs search site. Not too sophisticated. Can anyone give me some pointers? Maybe good references I could use for the design or any free templates I could find on the net?

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1. How to make a Website free and get traffic 1 Think of an idea for your new website. If you already know what you want to make your website about, skip this step. Search other band sites for layout ideas. Brainstorm and write down all of your ideas, no matter how ridiculous they may seem. There's no better place than the Internet to turn an idea into gold. You can also get help by searching the web with "website ideas". Ads by Google Google Analytics - Free Gain traffic and optimize your site with Google Analytics. Free! www.google.com/analytics 2 Identify your market. What kinds of people would each of your website ideas serve? Some websites, like Yahoo or Google, are as general as it gets, while other sites, like Weebles, serve a very specific bunch. Write down the target market next to each of the ideas on your list. Conduct market research--Who is your audience? What do they do? How old are they? What are their other interests? All of this information can help you make your website more useful to you. 3 Do keyword research to determine if other people are searching for your topics and learn more about your potential clients. There are many free keyword tools to help you get more information about your topic. You will need to find keywords that are in demand (people are looking for it) yet have some chance of finding your site. Like a site on web hosting is too broad of a topic. Forum webhosting is a little better (narrower) topic. 4 Figure out your commitment. How much time and money are you willing to put into your website? You can start and run a website for free, but the more money you want to make from your site, the more time and money you'll have to invest. If you do not care too much about making money (like if you're just interested in showing off your dried bug collection) you can get away with free web hosting and sporadic maintenance. * Content sites will require less investment, but you will also face more competition, since anyone can start a content site. To make money from this kind of site, you provide information and generate income from the traffic you receive through advertising. The trick also will be to 'spin' your content and use specific keywords to narrow down your topic and write high quality content directed to specific people searching for those specific keywords. * E-commerce sites, which sell products, will need more maintenance and attention. You will also need to think about shipping, sales, order form security, inventory updates, and everything that a person with an offline storefront would have to manage. read more at source cause don't fit here
2. It's not hard, but it's the union of many things: 1) Design ( you can search for "free html templates" on google and find many 2) Programming (PHP, Ruby and Rails, JAVA... ) 3) Usability 4) Marketing 5) SEO (http://seomoz.org)
3. No it is not hard. The easiest way for a novice to build a web site is to start with a web template. Web Templates can be customized and you can use the layout but swap the graphics etc.... this will get you comfortable with basic HTML design and an HTML editor (like Dreamweaver). Here are some resources for free or inexpensive templates that are easy to edit and manage. Webmaster Templates - http://www.webmaster-templates.net Free Web Templates - http://www.freewebtemplates.com/ Web Design Elements - http://www.webdesign-elements.com Free Website Templates - http://www.freewebsitetemplates.com/ Free Layouts - http://www.freelayouts.com/ Free Templates Online - http://www.freetemplatesonline.com HTML website templates can significantly ease the burden of designing and creating websites by providing webmasters with a ready-made web layout, structure, basic graphics, and color scheme.
4. try themeforest ... http://themeforest.net?ref=username they have very good templates for cheap