As a Virgin Media customer you're entitled to 200mb of plain webspace* completely free of charge within which to create your own website. This is where you find out how.
Don't worry if you're a first timer or the sort of person who struggles setting the video. You won't need a sonic screwdriver, or a degree in applied science - just a little bit of time and patience.
To build your website, you'll need to use a web language called HTML and possibly XHTML and something else called Cascading Style Sheets (or CSS). You'll need to plan what you want your site to do and how you want it to look, and think about the kind of content (stuff) that you might want to include.
The purpose of this guide is to give you the basic nuts and bolts of how these things work and to give you an idea of where to begin.
We'll be walking you through:
- Planning your website - can save you a lot of heart-ache!
- Some basic Do's and Don'ts - advice on designing your website
- The Basics of HTML - a language used to create websites
- The Basics of XHTML - more advanced programming to create websites
- The Basics of CSS - Cascading Style Sheets
- Image Optimisation - getting the most from images you use on your site
- Giving HTML a try - build a page from the very beginning
- Test yourself - a few simple challenges
- Web Jargon Buster - in case you find yourself getting jargoned-out at any time
- Further sources of information - once you've built up your confidence!
Feel free to explore and tackle each element in your own time. We'd recommend that you work through each section in order though.
*200MB webspace is available to customers with a @virginmedia.com e-mail address. This is available to all new customers now, and will be available to existing customers in 2010. More information on this will follow.
