How to Design A Professional Looking Website Using NVU
If you are looking for a way to build your own personal website or a website for your business but you don’t know anything about HTML or CSS coding, don’t despair. The internet has made it possible for everyone, regardless of technical knowledge, to build online presence and be part of the growing millions of people who realized the need of a website to showcase their talent, promote products, earn money, etc.
Using a free software, called NVU and by using some pre-designed professional templates, one can create a professional-looking website without even spending money just to start building a site today. Save yourself a lot of time by viewing the tutorial that follows.
What you will need.
1.) NVU - First install NVU in your computer. You can download the software by going to this page http://nvudev.com/download.php. Be sure to download the Windows version if you are running under Windows. Save the download to your hard drive and then install it as you would any other software. Once the installer starts, accept all the default options, and just click Next Next Next until you’re finished and Nvu is installed on your computer.
2.) Grab a professional looking template. Here are some links where you can find some awesome templates to start with.
http://www.free-css-templates.com
http://www.oswd.org
http://www.templateworld.com/free_templates.html
You can also search Yahoo and Google for more free templates by typing either of these search phrases “free css templates”, “css website templates”, “css templates download”, “css design templates”, etc.
Download a template you want to use. The template usually comes in zip file so you need to have a winzip installed in your computer. You can download winzip here: http://www.download.com/WinZip/3000-2250_4-10003164.html
Using NVU to Build Your Site
In this tutorial, we make us of a web template taken from freecsstemplates.com. If you want to use it for this demonstration, you can download it here.
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