Business Website Design Knowledge  - What's Required?
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Aside from HTML; CSS primarily for design element, flash for interactivity and/or interest, javascript (multiple reasons), and PHP server support.  Database possibly MySQL.
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Depends on what kind of site it is (personal/business/mission-critical etc). All the infrastructure and people resources needed are dependent on the purpose of the site. \n\nThe min requirements are one computer with web design software and Internet connectivity, and one person can take care of this.
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Easiest: Find someone to build ,maintain and secure your website.\n              They know web design, CGI, Html and SSL/TSL.\n               Price is not important, They must know what you want or required.\nEasy and Best: Get a seller/merchant account on Ebay(tm) and PayPal(tm) http://www.ebay.com \nSmall fee, great flexibility\nDIY :\n1)Get OpenSSL free at http://www.openssl.org \nFor secure Credit,ATM and Mastercard processing\n2)Get Apache Server free at http://httpd.apache.org \nFor processing the Site online\n3)Get a Static IP address from your Internet Service Provider so the customer can always find you. Need cash too.\n4)Learn SQL(Stock data and Client data), Html, CSS and JavaScript(Browser interaction) from\n    http://www.w3schools.com\nto design your Site\nHope This is Useful :)\nsidenote: You can use cookies to track buyer preference.\nIf possible read up on Firewalls Too.
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The first and foremost skill you need for creating a website is knowledge of a web-programming language. There are plenty of languages around, each unique in its usage. XHTML and CSS are the two most widely used web languages today. But even if you do not know any of these, you can still create professional quality web pages using good XHTML editor like TopStyle Pro etc. Knowledge of php and MySQL helps to create web pages with dynamic and database-enabled content.\n\nKnowlegde of an image editing program like Adobe Photoshop helps as you will have to modify and optimize images for your website on a regular basis. But here too, many software and websites (like Picasa) helps lay users create web picture galleries easily without much knowledge about media.\n\nThe demand for interactive and media-rich content on websites has popularized Macromedia Flash which is an immensely useful tool, which would help you create top-class interactive web pages if you master it.
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i'm a website developper... \nand to answer this as easy as possible...\nIf you want to do it yourself...take a course...there are good online ones...\nhttp://www.davesite.com/webstation/html/ \nbut you'll need software if you really want to get at it..\n\nDo this if it's for a personnal page...or just for fun...if it's for your business or anything profesionnal....hire somebody
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Download some sample Requirements Specification outline and start filling in each section yourself.\n\nOutline design depends on your software design. These are mostly done out of experience rather than using Yahoo Answers!
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You don't need a web site.\n\nMake a long list of ideas that you want your company to carry out.  For example, maybe excellence, cars, automobiles, service, etc.\n\nPick the one syllable from one word and another syllable from another word.  For example, maybe excellecars or excelleserv.  (you can do better with a little thought)
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What do you need to know?
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you are nowhere near ready for such a project.\n\nfirst learn html & css.\n\nthen learn the name of  a good programmer to partner with. Lots of great programmers can't do graphic design. or great layout!
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To answer your question first. Yes if you are a commercial operation then it is better to pay an expert to develop and implement your emarketing strategy. The problem is that for every real expert there are 100 scammers and wannabes so  finding a reliable and knowledgeable person is not that easy. This is a good source of basic information here http://www.seo-blog.com/\n\nNormally of course you would develop the emarketing strategy before building the website. In your case there is a slight problem in that the website appears to have been designed by someone who does not have a clue about emarketing or how users use websites or how search engines work or even basic web design principles.\n\nIf you are serious about your business and want to have a presence on the web that shows a good ROI then call in an expert before it is too late.
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Your business structure should be a reflection of your business goals. For your web design aspect of your business, an LLC is a good choice, as it protects you and others from personal liabilities and only exposes your company assets and contributions to litigation. For blogs and such, it's not necessary to create a business--an individual can sell advertising on a website. However, credibility becomes an important consideration--people are more likely to engage in media buying/advertising if there is indded a company on record filed with a state government.\n\nAnother consideration is building your resume. If you have a company for your web design business, your other projects--even if built or run by members of your web design company--serve as portfolio builders and can be used as examples of the kind of work your company is capable of. Also, if you choose to sell a blog or one of the other sites in your network, doing so is easier and requires less restructuring and less legal headaches than if they all are under one parent umbrella company most of the time.\n\nIf you're unsure about the best course to pursue, check out the U.S. Small Business Administration website at:\nhttp://www.sba.gov/\n\nMake sure everything is settled and agreeable with your partners. Most importantly, make sure that everything is spelled out and that you seek out a competent attorney who specializes in helping small business owners or who has experience in such things as business law and trademark research. Filing the appropriate business forms/documents is only one step. Making sure you've planned it well and sought legal counsel are absolute musts if you are involving others and considering the scope of your project.
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heres one http://www.learningwebdesign.com/
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You need to learn several important subjects. These include how to design and develop a web site using HTML, XHTML, DHTML, CSS, PHP, and possibly ASP.NET if you want to use Microsoft's dotNet technology. If you need to configure and host your web site, then it would also be beneficial for you to learn web server technologies such as Apache or IIS, DNS, BIND, and basic networking TCP/IP. For free training and learning materials, see the source links below.
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That sounds like a fairly difficult undertaking!  I certainly would not use plain ASP; you would be much better off using ASP.Net, but Ruby on Rails would be the other logical choice.  As far as skills, you are looking at a 3-tiered application: a user interface tier, a business logic tier, and a database tier.  So, you would need to know a fair amount of HTML and JavaScript to create nice web pages, and probably Ruby or C# for the business layer, and SQL and some database administration skills for the database layer.  Good luck!
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You need to study, \nhtml, javascript, flash, graphics design, asp, pearl, python, xhtml, dhtml, and java and c++ would help too.\n\nYou should also study up on internet marketing and SMO.
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You must learn HTML in order to design a webpage... as for a free site for doing so, www.expage.com ... go here http://www.w3schools.com/html/ for an HTML tutorial...
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Macromedia Dreamweaver in my view. \n\nI think the best website is more graphics and creativeness than just plain software help. I think it comes from experience and vision to your business prospective. \n\nFor design like msn, yahoo etc. you need proper database structure and lots of people behind the scene maintaining it. \n\nLanguages : HTML, SQL, Java, Java script, ASP, Cold Fusion etc. This are the list of choices and each one has unique benefits of its own.\n\nI hope I gave enough information to get the best answer points.