I seriously know nothing, I've never set up a website before so don't know where to start.  Any hints/tips/starting points would be greatfully appreciated!
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If you are a true novice and don't want to spend much time learning how to make a site, I would suggest the current super-popular MySpace. You can quickly get your information up for all your friends to see.\n\nIf you are interested in something more, but still fairly simple try GeoCities or Yahoo.\n\nIf you are willing to learn HTML I would suggest ATSPACE.COM. You can create a website for FREE up to 50MBs in size. I have two websites through them and the uptime is great. You'll need an ftp program to upload your stuff. There's a good free one for personal use called "FTP Explorer". Of course you'll either need to learn HTML or use one of the WYSIWYG programs like FrontPage or DreamWeaver to actually design your site. e-mail me if you need some help...\n\nIf you want your own domain and have it hosted, I suggest ReadyHosting. You get 1GB of space unlimted e-mail accounts, FTP access and domain name registration all for $99 a year.\n\nWeb hosting site (FREE):\nhttp://www.atspace.com\nWeb hosting site (COST):\nhttp://www.readyhosting.com\nFTP Explorer site:\nhttp://www.ftpx.com\n\nA couple of my websites:\nPioneer Baseball Website (ReadyHosting - Cost)\nhttp://www.pioneerbaseball.org\nMy Son's Travel Team's Website (ATSpace.com - FREE)\nhttp://tricountytitans.atspace\nFamily Website (ATSpace.com - FREE)\nhttp://tim8w.atspace.com
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First, you need to find a place to create your website. Try GeoCites! http://geocities.yahoo.com/ It's a great place to start; it's free and it can even give you some step-by-step tutorials some easy templates and  to work off of to make your webpage look great without too much effort.\n\nOnce you get the hang of the template and the little basics, I recommend learning HTML, which allows you to create and format your webpage and have more control and choices than a template. There are some great tutorials at http://www.w3schools.com. When you get there, try clicking on the tutorials regarding HTML. There, you can learn a bunch of stuff! I also recommend http://www.lissaexplains.com. It's a bit colorful, but it is a good guide for beginners and tells you everything you need to know in a clear, fun way.
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Hi Student X,\n\nI joined a very famous internet marketing company recently and paid big bucks for the knowledge that you are looking for.\n\nAs part of the overall membership they offer their members a full course of 256 videos that guide you through setting up websites but you need a username and password to "unlock" the page.\n\nIf you want you can use mine. I know that desperate feeling when you want to set up a website but just don't know how.\n\nJust go to www.protry.com\n\nusername = members\nmypassword= candy\n\nIt's literally the best package I have ever seen offered on the interent for helping people build websites and the videos are so easy to follow that you'll be up and running in no time.\n\nHope this helps,\n\nGoodluck,\n\nColin
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If you only need help on how to build the page itself (HTML coding), I suggest: http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_intro.asp\n\nIf you want to save time, you can find nice free templates here:\nhttp://www.intensivstation.ch/en/templates/\n\n\nIf you need to know more about how to actually have that page on a real server on the Web so that the whole world can see it, I suggest:\nhttp://www.getawebsite.friezedesign.co.uk/index.htm\n\n\nGood luck!
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http://www.geocities.com is how I started up.You will need your yahoo sign in details and they even supply the software for you to quickly build your pages. This bit is free. I upgraded to a domain name ($9.50 per month) and you can see that at http://www.mwitham.com     this will show you what can be done with a free site but be warned the data transfer limit is tiny on the free sites 3.3GB which has got an hourly limit also,so don't get building a site too big. I had to upgrade due to my expanding site which is soon to have 120 pages of free travel/tourist information on.
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Consider http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/ - it is excellent; or if you have no budget then consider www.blogspot.com - you cansetup your own template and can do reasonable amount of hosting.\n\nNot recomended to setup your own service.
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If you are a true novice and don't want to spend much time learning how to make a site, I would suggest the current super-popular MySpace. You can quickly get your information up for all your friends to see.\n\nIf you are interested in something more, but still fairly simple try GeoCities or Yahoo.\n\nIf you are willing to learn HTML I would suggest ATSPACE.COM. You can create a website for FREE up to 50MBs in size. I have two websites through them and the uptime is great. NO ADS. You'll need an ftp program to upload your stuff. There's a good free one for personal use called "FTP Explorer". Of course you'll either need to learn HTML or use one of the WYSIWYG programs like FrontPage or DreamWeaver to actually design your site. e-mail me if you need some help...\n\nIf you want your own domain and have it hosted, I suggest ReadyHosting. You get 1GB of space unlimted e-mail accounts, FTP access and domain name registration all for $99 a year.\n\nWeb hosting site (FREE):\nhttp://www.atspace.com\nWeb hosting site (COST):\nhttp://www.readyhosting.com\nFTP Explorer site:\nhttp://www.ftpx.com\n\nA couple of my websites:\nPioneer Baseball Website (ReadyHosting - Cost)\nhttp://www.pioneerbaseball.org\nMy Son's Travel Team's Website (ATSpace.com - FREE)\nhttp://tricountytitans.atspace\nFamily Website (ATSpace.com - FREE)\nhttp://tim8w.atspace.com
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Step 1: \nRegister your domain name.  You can register a domain name at yahoo or at godaddy.com.  \n\nStep 2: \nGet web hosting.  YOu can get web hosting thru Yahoo or Godaddy, or a gazillion other web hosting companies on line.  You will likely only need a teeny bit of disk space for your site, but you may want to make sure you have at least 500mb of space so that you have enough room to have email accounts associated with your website/domain.  Get a UNIX/RedHat/Linux/Apache type account.  You don't need to pay for "windows" hosting.  You should pay between $7 and $20 per month for hosting.... less, and you don't know what kind of customer service you are going to get, more, and you are paying too much.\n\nStep 3:\nGo to the place where you registered your domain name and make sure your DNS is pointing to the place where you are hosting your website.  \n\nmore explanation: if you register mycompany.com and your host is hostingcompany.com, you need to make sure your domain name is pointing to hosting company.  your dns may look like this:\n\nns1.hostingcompany.com\nns2.hostingcompany.com\n\nOften times your webhost will do the DNS transfer for you.  You will need to tell them your regristrar account's username and password.  That's their job.  It's ok to give it to them.  You might want to change it afterwards though.\n\nSide note: I recommend registering your own domain.  Don't have your hosting company register it for you, as you want to own your domain name and have it registered in your own name.\n\nStep 4:\nThe next step, of course, is to create your website and then load it onto your server.  You should learn XHTML and CSS to do a good job here.  You only need a text editor such as notepad or textpad to create your site and the filemanager portion of your control panel (see below) to upload your files, but you can also go all out and get Dreamweaver, or other WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) editor.  I recommend Thomsons book "New Perspectives on HTML, XHTML, and Dynamic HTML, Comprehensive"\n\nTerms:\n\nMySQL:\nMySQL is a type of database.  If this is your first website and you asked the question you did, you likely will never need to use it.  However, it is good to get a hosting package that allows for at least one MySQL database.  You will only ever need one database, as you can have almost unlimited tables in this one database.\n\ncPanel:\ncPanel is a control panel for webhosting.  It's a type of control panel... brand name.  It is a really great control panel.  WHat is a control panel?  A control panel is a GUI by which you can control your website.  It includes file manager, where you can upload pages to your website (uploading means putting files from your computer onto your website that is hosted by your hosting company you picked in step 2), control of .htaccess, which allows you to set up password protected directories, email, which allows you to set a default account for your site as well as create email mail boxes and email forwards.
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Do you have a domain name and a server?\n\nYou can contact me via omni-flex.co.uk I should be able to put something together for you.
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http://www.byethost.com/\nhttp://www.addyour.net/\nhttp://www.100webspace.com/freeplan.html\nhttp://www.netfreehost.com/index.php\nhttp://www.perfectfreewebhosting.com/\nthose are for hosting it...\nuse http://www.united.net.kg/domain.htm for a free .co.nr domain or get a paid .com/.net/.org/etc at a place like godaddy.com
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try adding .com, .co.uk .net etc on the end. Without seeing the link it is hard to offer more suggestions - other than "ask your colleague for the full URL"
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If you're looking for a totally free site, check out yahoo, geocities, angelfire, or my space. If you are looking for something a little more polished, there are lots of great tools out there that are helpful, including sites that offer templates and help you get started. I have been impressed with the tools and service of GoDaddy (www.godaddy.com). If you'd like to learn more about the process, consider buying this book, which outlines the process, step-by-step: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0764507206/103-8389304-7234204?v=glance&n=283155\n\nHere's some tips from http://website-design.mcdar.net/:\n\nSo you want to build a website here I will explain some simple but also key aspects that are commonly taken in to consideration when a website developer creates a website.\n\n1) Website Design - The website design must be neat meaning that everything looks like where it is meant to be (nothing out of place or out of proportion). Also your sites design is related to the topic of your website e.g. your site is about flowers then your design must have flowers.\n\n2) Site Navigation - Visitors must be able to get where they want to go without going through a maze a good way of putting it if you can get there in 3 clicks it should be fine. Also it helps when search engine spiders go through your site since it makes it easy for the spiders to index the site.\n\n3) Domain Name - Domain name is important since it is one of the first thing that your visitors will see. Your domain should relate to your site topic or business name. Length of the domain usually 6-8 characters is a good length and easy for visitors to type.\n\n4) Scroll Bars - don't make your website pages too long so your visitors have to scroll for hours it is also a good option to just create another page and don't make people scroll side to side.\n5) Returning Visitors - make your visitors return to your site by adding one or all to your site:\n\n- Email Newsletter (Ezine)\n- Community Forums\n- Online Tools\n- Online Games\n- Useful Content\n- Competitions and Prizes\n- and so on\n\n5) Website Logo - Make your logo unique and brandable so that people will remember your logo and then will remember your site and products.\n\nThese are some simple points that you may take into consideration when you build your website if you need some further assistance have a look at your competitors website and see what they have done. Remember what you put in is what you get out of your website and on that note GOOD LUCK and enjoy the whole process of building your very own virtual property.\n\n\nAll that said, if you'd like something simple and quick, here's the company that made my website, and they charged me less than $300. I knew nothing about doing it, but it came out great and they guided me every step of the way: www.wordtechs.com.\n\n\nGood luck with your new venture!\n~Tia~
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Take a look here :\n\nhttp://www.htmlgoodies.com/tutorials/getting_started/article.php/3479461
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you have options.\nyou can host your own using free good stuff like phpbb (google it)\nor you can get it hosted for you http://forumsplace.com/
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Now a days this is so much more simple then just 2 years ago and dont get me going on the hours I spent learning 10 years ago. Many web site hosting providers have pay by the month e-commerce sites that are cookie cutter and ready to go with little or no knowledge needed. I have use countless but find 1and1.com (thats the number one and one) to be the best bang for your buck. You can find almost anything you want to know about building websites by doing a google search on "Building my own website" not to mention the 100's of books you can find at you local book store. I have been building website for people for almost 7 years now and have not even come close to learning as much as I would like but if you are looking to get going look for one of the cookie cutter template sites that are an all in one. That provide web hosting, domain reg, templates (for ecomm sites) and low price. Good luck and enjoy I know I do.
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PHP hosting typically comes with MySQL, and its the combination of the two that will help you create your website. Here's a godo website that breaks down each step of getting to develop in this environment: http://www.php-mysql-tutorial.com/\n\nIt will take you step by step through the each bit of the website interaction.\n\nThe older webmonkey tutorial is still around at:\nhttp://www.webmonkey.com/webmonkey/99/21/index3a.html
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for a first time web devloper i would use something like geocitites that makes the site for you and even host it\n\n(geocitites.com)\n\nif your looking for something to make it on your hard drive you could make it on a program like dream weaver or frontpage but please keep in mind unlike geocities this is not free