Fezoj wrote What's the pros and cons between;

Creating your own website from scratch

vs.

Using sites like weebly

Also, what kind of coding should I start learning if I am trying to make a website for my business.

Going with a custom website will give you better control over it and allows you to customize it to your preference.

Using site-builders like weebly only gives you a certain amount of permissions to edit your website.

Also things you should learn before creating your website is HTML, PHP, CSS, and JavaScript.

Nerdie wrote

Fezoj wrote What's the pros and cons between;

Creating your own website from scratch

vs.

Using sites like weebly

Also, what kind of coding should I start learning if I am trying to make a website for my business.

Going with a custom website will give you better control over it and allows you to customize it to your preference.

Using site-builders like weebly only gives you a certain amount of permissions to edit your website.

Also things you should learn before creating your website is HTML, PHP, CSS, and JavaScript.

Could you start off with a site like Weebly and then cut off and make your own?

Fezoj wrote

Could you start off with a site like Weebly and then cut off and make your own?

If they allow you to export the html, yes, then you can edit it to how you want (also along with the css)

-Deano wrote

Fezoj wrote

Could you start off with a site like Weebly and then cut off and make your own?

If they allow you to export the html, yes, then you can edit it to how you want (also along with the css)

Lastly, do you know how much a domain costs, or what a good price for a domain is?

I've also been looking at
thetechgame.org
&
weebly

Fezoj wrote

-Deano wrote

Fezoj wrote

Could you start off with a site like Weebly and then cut off and make your own?

If they allow you to export the html, yes, then you can edit it to how you want (also along with the css)

Lastly, do you know how much a domain costs, or what a good price for a domain is?

I've also been looking at
thetechgame.org
&
weebly

You can get them for any price depending on what you want. Something like bigjohn552.com will be really cheap whereas dog.com will be really expensive.

weebly kinda sucks

learning to make your own website is a lot better as you will probably have a lot more customisation + the skills you gain from this can aid you in a job.

Making your own website is always a great idea. It gives you full control and allows you to learn life skills as you further the development of your own website, I would never suggest the likes of Wix and other websites alike.

Well generally with a website builder like Weebly it's all drag and drop, change some text here. It may sound like the best option to go for one of these however if you have some spare time on your hands and would be open to learning about web design then I would suggest at least trying it out before Weebly builders.

Actually coding your website poses many benefits. You will gain skills, I won't say everything but rather keep to what would be important to an individuals website.

Code Building
Bug Analysis
Testing
etc.

You can update, change, add to and all out remove elements within your own custom website and do so in a custom coded way designed exactly how you want it to work.

As for the programming languages you would need to learn, It is always best to start with HTML. Bare in mind it is better to start with HTML-4 as HTML-5 has dumbed down a lot of things and made things a lot easier, the reasoning behind it is so if you would even need to use some HTML-4 elements while working with the better version you would know how and not need to go into researching more which would stress you out.

Next would be to learn CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). Every website you use, whether it's TTG, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube all use CSS and if they didn't they would look... well like plain text and boxes.

Now you may want to store things in a database, keep things away from being hard coded. Well you are going to need to learn SQL (using MySQL workbench), this language is where you will build and test your database. Alternately if your already super good at SQL you can just run it on PHPMyAdmin which you will use anyway to apply your database tables to the website,.

Which brings us onto PHP, Say you want to connect your database to your webpage and allow users to login or whatever functionality you have created. Honestly it can be anything, Generally for eCommerce websites like eBay or Amazon they have all their products stored within a database and to display it to a potential buyer they might use PHP to take this item's information from the database and display it to the customer (Might be along the lines of what you want if your selling something).

Now say you want some animations on your website or extra functionality, JavaScript can do just that. Although JQuery is absolutely amazing and is a huge step up from JS in functionality it's still good to learn the basis of the language.

I suppose that's all you really need to learn unless you want to implement thing's like ASP.NET or Ajax but honestly learning those languages should be the starter building blocks for creating the website you want. Hope this post helped, if you need further explanation then feel free to PM me.