Mission Statment

This blog intends to walk you though the steps of building a good site from start to finish.  To often "guides" assume a high level of technical knowledge and usually will force you to seek additional help on their subsections with out explicitly providing direction.  The other direction that guides go is web site building for dummies, I'm not necessarily referring to the line of dummies books but to the massive stack of titles that say something along the lines of "Build your First Website".  If that sounds like a title for a children's book than you won't be disappointed with the level of these guides.  There are also many companies out there that purport to make website building easy by providing you with some simplified tools common templates etc, while this might not sound bad to someone just starting out I highly recommend avoiding these sites, some will try to charge you money but all come with a single major issue and that is with the root domain name.  They will always force you to use an address structured like "theirname.com/yoursitesname" or the other way around.  This is bad, if you are building a business website this is extremely bad, for starters it will immediately make you look less professional, and secondly you will unlikely ever have good search results.  By making you use their domain name as your root name these companies are actually benefiting themselves with any of the content you might create.  Yes this blog will suffer from these issues as well i.e. the address for it is webbuildingblocks.blogspot.com.  Note the ending i.e. blogspot.com comparatively this is relativelybegnign compared to those that use their address first.

 The goal of this Blog is to show the different web site developmental aspects and what is available to someone just starting or someone who has some experience and is looking to take the next step.  To do this a site will be developed along side of this blog, with the posts directly drawing from the steps that have been taken on the site construction.  This blog is not interned for high level technical users although as the build progresses some advanced subjects will be discussed but the aim is to present topics and subjects in easily understandable terms.  The site that will be built in conjunction with these posts will be built as cheaply as possible and as such I will not be using web development and content management software priced at heart attack prices such as Adobe's creative suites.  Many of the program that I will be using will be new to me as well so I am also approaching this as a way to examine the programs used.  In a way I am writing this to organize my own thoughts as much as guide for others.  I am not currently planning on getting into css+ or HTML5 coding as this makes my eyes glaze over, my focus will be on the basics.