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Making a website can be very simple, or it can be very complicated. Normally one should start with simple and work up to complicated, but most of us start with something overly complicated because we are unaware of all the possibilities.

==Developer-hosted versus user-installed==
The simplest way to make a website is to sign up for a free [[blog]] on a [[developer-hosted platform]]. The website software is operated by the developer for the benefit of the blog authors. It is very easy to create your own personal blog using a default format. These platforms do allow you to configure your blog to a personal format, but you will generally have to know [[HyperText Markup Language|HTML]] and [[CSS]] to do so.

It is somewhat more difficult, but much more rewarding, to learn to install your own websites. This requires using a [[web hosting service]].

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==Static websites versus dynamic websites==
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==Wikipedia Links==
*Developer hosted platforms: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog_hosting_service#Developer-hosted_platforms
*User Hosted Platforms: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog_hosting_service#User_hosted_platforms
*Web hosting service: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_hosting
*Static website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Website#Static_website
*Dynamic website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Website#Dynamic_website

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