Most of the methods and techniques that i have used are web related and around 99% will involve a website. So it may benefit you to learn HTML/XHTML and CSS. These are the basic coding languages that you will need to know to create a sucessful website.

I taught myself these over the years starting with Microsoft FrontPage. My first site simply included changing the background color to black and creating a landing page with an image on which more than likely originated from Paint.

My advice is to learn by doing, if you do not have software to help you with making web pages then don’t worry. You can still create pages using notepad. It may take a little getting used to but at least that way you will be forced into understanding code from the start. I learned by using a WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) and then looking at the code and seeing how it affected the website.

To understand the code take a look at this website. http://www.w3schools.com/

If you have the cash i would recommend getting Adbode Dreamweaver to create and maintain websites.

Your website can be based on anything that you want. Many years ago it would be fine to create lots of websites and get the benefits from them all. However in recent times it seems wiser to create a single website and put your efforts into making that one sucessful rather than try and create many standard websites that may not take off as you expect.

Once you have a site you are going to need to upload it and for that i recommend this free FTP program named FileZilla. http://filezilla-project.org/

Another way to go about getting online is to have a blog. This will enable you to post your thoughts etc online. The benefit of a blog is that it can be hosted free by sites such as WordPress or Blogger.

I recommend WordPress as blogging software. You can create a site on a sub domain on their site or host your own blog. Hosting your own site costs money and i will talk about hosting in my next post.

Check out wordpress here: http://wordpress.org/

Take Care.