Good sites don't start in a web creation program, they start in your head (you know, that thing sitting on your shoulders). Before you even touch your web software, you need to get in touch with the reasons why you want to build a site and what you want it to accomplish.

• Site Planning Basics - The least you should know.
• This site from scratch: Just like your site, this site had to start somewhere. Here's the story, from conception to completion.
• Part II: Design and Impressions: Design is a very subjective thing. But even if you´re not a designer, you can create a site that "says" what you want.
• Web sense: Just as you have five senses, Toni Will-Harris explains that the web has five senses: a sense of Purpose, a sense of Place, a sense of Logic, a sense of Direction, and a sense of Identity.
• COPYRIGHTS
• Copyrights and wrongs: Mary Carter gives you an easy-to-understand guide that can keep you out of hot water—and protect your "intellectual rights" (see, you're an intellectual already!)
• When copying is OK: There are legal exceptions to copying. It's easy in principle, but, as with other situations in the law, these waters can get very murky, very quickly. We'll take it step by step and wade into the depths a little bit at a time. Got your snorkel? Take a deep breath and tread this way please!
• It's a pixel eat pixel world--can you protect yourself? Your content on the web may be copyrighted, but that doesn't mean it's safe by any stretch of the imagination. Mary Carter tells you about technology that can help you protect your intellectual property— as why this technology may not be all it's cracked up to be.
• Sticky Web Sites: A successful site usually involves attracting people not just once, but over and over again (hence, visitors "stick" to the site, don't ask me, I didn't come up with this term). Marcos Sanchez, smart guy and snappy dresser, explains how to make your site get repeat visitors.