Free Deck Building Advice from The Family Handyman Magazine  For more than fifty years, The Family Handyman Magazine has been providing readers with the most up-to-date home improvement information with easy to follow step-by-step instructions, plans and photographs. Now, many of their best how-to articles are available online. Links on any of the articles lead to information on modern, low-maintenance decking materials, plus how-to-build articles on deck furniture, shade structures, privacy screens and more.

How to Build the Best Deck  A deck is an ideal home improvement project for the average handyman or woman. The design is straightforward. No advanced carpentry skills or sophisticated tools are needed. If you can hammer a nail, saw on a straight line, and read a level, then building a deck should present no major problems. This fifteen page eBook, by Arch Chemicals, will show you how.

How To Build a Deck -  Step-By-Step Instructions from DoItYourself.com  Learn all of the steps to building your own deck with these free, expert online lessons and videos on deck building, finishing and maintenance.

Illustrated Deck Building Guides from the pages of Extreme How-To Magazine  Decks are quite often the first project many beginning do-it-yourselfers tackle, but it's important to understand the basics of deck construction. Decks are built in specific steps. By taking those steps one-at-a-time, building a deck can be fun and easy.