The first part in developing a website is documentation. First write your ideas on paper. Write about the contents you wish to include in your website. Since you are a student you can include the following things A brief information about yourself Your education qualification you can use tree structure Skill-set you possess Projects you have worked on Your aplishments and achievements Your work experience if any Contact information Resume PDF format Now after writing all of these things you know what to include in your website. You can start creating a layout look of your website on paper. Choose correct positioning for each element. Layout can be created by keeping the following things in mind Header Decide what to include in the header like a logo a navigation bar some useful s etc. Navigation Decide the style and position of your navigation bar it can be in header it could be a sidebar (right) it could be a full screen overlay or anything else. Banner Decide what to include in a banner like a slider a static source italic Google italic s