Need help designing a website!

[free_life]

Take one of the basic free online html tutorials and use a template you like at one the hosting sites you will be fine.

[newb2012]

Thanks so much FRiends for your suggestions. These will help me look into them and decide which works best for me. Have a good day!

[minnesota_bound]

Don’t worry if it seems complicated. CSS & HTML are for layout. Create DIVs (boxes to put content in) Add some styling for the fonts (size & type & color)
The hard part is content. Create a folder and put the index.html page there and a subfolder for your images.
Create subfolders for each page with an image folder so they do not get mixed up and you can sort things out easily.

Great place for tools that will make things easy. They have different Generators that let create what took frustrating hours (it seems) in minutes.

http://www.cssportal.com/layout-generator/

Another Web Template Generator
http://www.webtemplategenerator.com/

This place has lots of help with examples for you to modify
http://www.w3schools.com/

Example of a drop shadow
http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/tryit.asp?filename=trycss3_box-shadow

Basic Ready-to-Use CSS Styles
http://tympanus.net/Tutorials/BasicReadyToUseCSSStyles/

Try this book. I found it for me to be the best that told me the basics and explained how things worked. You can buy at Amazon or download here: Copy and paste the link in a new tab. Once it downloads the go to File> Save Page as and save to your desktop.

The CSS3 Anthology, 4th Edition
By Rachel Andrew

Download the PDF here:
ftp://ftp.micronet-rostov.ru/linux-support/books/programming/HTML-CSS/Rachel%20Andrew%20-%20The%20CSS3%20Anthology%204th%20Edition%20-%202012.pdf

Mastering CSS Coding: Getting Started
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/10/05/mastering-css-coding-getting-started/

Mastering CSS Principles: A Comprehensive Guide
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/mastering-css-principles-comprehensive-reference-guide/

Dropdown menu
http://webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/css3-dropdown-menu

CSS gradient buttons
http://webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/css3-gradient-buttons

CSS Rounded Corners
http://davidwalsh.name/css-rounded-corners

How to format several tables on one page with CSS
http://www.loriswebs.com/html-tips/format-tables-css.html

A random collection of CSS examples and some help in using them.
http://www.w3.org/Style/Examples/007/

This will fix those headaches you will get with CSS alignment:

Align and float images with CSS
http://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/edu/website-design/insert-images-website/align-float-images-css

CSS Typography: The Basics <- Fonts
http://sixrevisions.com/css/css-typography-01/

Working With RGBA Colour
http://24ways.org/2009/working-with-rgba-colour/