When you decide that having a website on the Internet makes sense for you, there are things to consider before even beginning. Building the actual website can be the easy part compared to other related tasks such as choosing a web server, uploading your files to the web server, maintaining and marketing your website, and ensuring safe and secure date transfers. You can select one of the links to the right to learn more about these subjects, but first let's talk about website design.

All websites on the Internet have a common element. The underlying framework consists of HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) code. You can build a website with just the Notepad program and HTML, if you are fairly knowledgeable. An easier approach, albeit more expensive, is to use Web design software programs such as Microsoft FrontPage or Macromedia Dreamweaver. These software programs have different features and layouts, but allow the user to do the same essential thing, and that is to create a Web page using a Graphical User Interface (GUI) instead of HTML coding. GUI allows you to easily insert text, graphics, and hyperlinks with no knowledge of HTML code. Knowledge of HTML is very important for website maintenance or troubleshooting . Green River Web Design offers website packages that include designing the actual website, uploading it to the Web server of your choice, and free basic maintenance and troubleshooting for the first year, then instructing you in the easiest, most user-friendly way, to maintain the site yourself.