Hi everyone. I have a tentative plan to start a gaming related website to sort of post editorials and reviews and stuff. Before I get started, I was wondering if anybody had suggestions for how to set up such a site. I have limited technical knowledge, but a lot of enthusiasm, so I'm willing to teach myself new skills if necessary. Should I use something like Webs.com?

Thanks.

Nobody?

Hope you know what your getting into . It's going to be a full time job.I know someone who does advert websites.
Just pm the people who run this site.

it depends how fancy you wanna make your website, if you wanna simple website that does what you said in your post, knowing basic html and css will do.

also i suggest look for best host option but before signing up create the website on your local machine then signup and move it there. (but looking for good host even from today is not a bad idea, read the reviews and compare the prices) also think about the domain name.

Codecademy.com has free HTML/CSS courses

http://www.codecademy.com/

There's a lot myself and others could offer, but to start simple, I would recommend looking into using Wordpress or another blogging engine. It's a free and open source blogging tool. Plenty of plugins and tutorials already exist, making it easier. Register your domain name and get webspace from a reputable site (start with virtual shared hosting, you won't need more until you have the traffic to justify it).

Do some basic layout designs on paper so you know how you want the site to navigate--this will tell you after you set the site up what customizations you may need to make. Load Wordpress on your site, put together some graphics and design and create your theme, put together your CSS Stylesheets, and play around with it. Do some testing, and incrementally try out plugins. With both plugins and Ads, less is more. It's been awhile since I've implemented forums, but I remember there were plenty of PHP/MySQL based boards that were super easy to load.

From a technical standpoint, look into HTML, CSS, PHP, Javascript, and SQL (specifically MySQL). If you don't have someone doing your graphics work, you may have to learn that too. I recommend going with a minimalist graphical design. Again, less is more.

There are different approaches you could take, but I think this would be the way to go for a beginner. There's plenty more I could recommend, but this is plenty for you to get started. Once you get past a certain level of competency, you'll be surprised how easy it is to set some things up. The hard part is maintaining the site and getting traffic to it. As another poster said, it's a fulltime job.

Have fun with it. Hope that helps!

I would get a basic Word Press (or Joomla) templet you like and start with that. Decide how you want the layout before.

I like to sketch things out on paper first.