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How do I learn to design a simple webpage?

Hello. My mom sells handmade jewlery out of her house and is not very computer-literate. I know my way around typical programs (surfing the internet, word, excel, powerpoint, etc) but have no experience in web design. I know her business would be benefitted if she had a webpage. I would like to help her out by paying for and setting up a basic webpage (ie. company name, contact information, a pdf order form, and a few pictures) but I don't know where to start. If anyone could suggest a good web tutorial for basic webpage design - or a good book to read- I would be very appreciative. I don't expect you to explain the whole process though Yahoo! answers!! But, anything you have to offer would help. Thanks!!

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1. the best html tutorial on the web is http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/tut/ html is the name of the programming language that you use to make web sites
2. go to http://www.w3schools.com/html/ for an interactive tutorial and http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/ for more information
3. Actually HTML isn't a programming language
4. Well The best tutorials are W3Schools.com, or if you don't fell like learning all of this I am a professional web designer and could make a site for you for around 20$ my Home Page is Boyleswebdesign.com and my email is Jake@Boyleswebdesign.com . Thanks Jake
5. For tutorials, check out WebMonkey. I think you might see some potential in not re-inventing the wheel. Once you've got a web hosting account, install Drupal. Then check out the eCommerce module. If the Control Panel for your web hosting service includes Fantastico (it should) then you can just click on the Drupal link to install it, and you're done. Start playing around with themes and features and be amazed. Using this method, I've actually had full-blown websites up and running for clients in less than 15 minutes. Kid you not.
6. If you are currently a paid Internet subscriber, you are entitled to a "homepage" which often contains simple navigation and editing tools. And if you use the Netscape browser, the built-in Composer feature is a superior HTML authoring tool. You can easily generate a full-blown website as a Homepage. Nevertheless, the "homepage" URL is likely to be "http://homepage.earthlink.com/subscriber... name" and that URL can easily be overwritten via a redirection service, i.e., "mydomain.com" which allows you to link any registered domain name to "mask" another website. For example, should you type in "domainname.com", you will be immediately transported to the homepage and the hompage URL of http://homepage.earthlink.com/subscriber... name will be masked by the domainname.com. And the charge for the redirection service [even at godaddy.com] is normally FREE. Here's a demonstration: Type in the URL window: "www.pizzanextdoor.com" which will bring up their pizza website. Take note of the domain name. Then type in the URL window: "http://home.pacbell.net/vten/1a/pizzamen... and you will see that this is the original homepage which is unmasked without the domain name! Good luck!