In this article I am not going to teach you how to create top class design. Instead I will show you how to design your first website without any HTML knowledge.

If you have never designed any website before it may sound like difficult job. Don’t worry - if you can work with Microsoft Word you can also create easy website. There are two ways how to achieve this goal - the first one is classic HTML coding. The second one is using WYSIWYG editor.

WYSIWYG means What You See Is What You Get. You will be maybe surprised to hear that one of the easiest WYSIWYG editors can be Microsoft Word. You can easily write some text, format it, add some pictures etc. and then instead of saving the document like .doc choose save as HTML. The source code will look extremely unprofessional for every web designer but more important is the fact that it works and everybody can do that.

OK, now you are able to create very easy website and you are probably asking yourself if there is a way how to make better website using similar method. You can download some editor like Front Page. The interface is similar like Microsoft Word but there are many other functions specially designed for web developers. These functions are very intuitive so after a few minutes of testing them you will be able to go to the next level of web designing.

One of very useful functions is switching between WYSIWYG mode and HTML source. When you will become familiar with your WYSIWYG editor you will probably sometimes need to do something what is not possible in WYSIWYG mode. It is the time when you should every time when you change something on the website switch to HTML mode and learn was changed in the HTML code. This way you will be very quickly able to understand basic HTML and make some changes in the source code every time you will want.

The next level can be using some of many online website builders. You can find some easy website builders which can be used for free, sign up for some service offering feature rich builder or go with a web hosting company which offers this feature in its web hosting plan. When you decide for one of these solutions you will pick some of many offered designs, choose color scheme and add text for every page. Then save your work and your web is finished. The advantage of using website builders are professionally looking designs which you will probably never create using WYSIWYG editor. On the other side you must keep in mind that the same design will be used by many other webmasters. So this solution is good for personal or other non-commercial websites.

Another way to your own website are free templates. There are hundreds of free designs which can be downloaded for free as long as you leave the authors link in the footer. When you download your favorite design, open it in your browser, click by right mouse button and use View source option. Now edit the text in the page and when done save it and publish.

If you’re looking for a better way to market your business, you can use the internet to get the word out about your services and/or products. With proper website design, you can give your site’s visitors a way to explore your company.

When deciding to build your web site, you should take a look at competitor’s web sites to get a feel of how they do things. You might want to do something similar, but have a completely different website design. For instance, you can have the layout similar, so that the potential customers that have already visited the competitor’s web site will already know how to navigate yours. Many companies already have a basic layout for their industry.

If you notice with the website design for commerce web sites, the layouts are very similar. They all have a shopping cart, bag or basket and a checkout area. You can even view your shopping bag as you shop to see how much everything is adding up to. Then there are web sites like eBay that give you a way to search through their web site for products to buy and bid on. It is important that the website design you choose is simple to use, so that your customers will come back time and time again.

There are other ways you can use website design to your benefit. If you are looking to setup a personal blog to talk about your travels or other interests people would want to read about, you can build a web site to do so. Many of the blogs you find on the web are built very similarly. They have a simple design - the content is in the middle of the page and below each post there is a spot for you to comment about the article. Then usually on the sides there is an area where you can look through previous posts and archives.

Website design is very important in the world of internet. Without a good design, visitors of your site won’t enjoy their experience and likely they won’t come back. It is also important that all of your important features are readily accessible on the site - this would include the list of services or products, about us page, contact us page and the checkout and shopping cart links. Keep in mind that your web site design is able to be viewed on multiple web browsers, so that you can get more visitors to your web site.