Learning to build your own website can be challenging, but a great outlet for your creativity, as well. Take a look at this general overview to find the answer to the question "How do I build my own website?"
Hosting Your Site
Both free and paid web hosting have their pros and their cons. If you opt to use a free site, you will undoubtedly have ads from the site on your pages; that is how the free sites keep the site free. If you are fine with that, then a free site may be the right choice for you. If you do not like the idea of having advertising on your site, you may want to go with a paid web host. Free sites also tend to have less space allotted to each site, while paid hosts have all of the space you will need.
Free blog hosts have become very popular over the last few years and there is a good reason why. Blogs are very easy to adapt to most types of sites, there are a variety of easy-to-use templates from which to choose, the search engine optimization is taken care of and they provide plenty of space. If a blog host does not appeal to you, some free web hosts include doteasy.com, 50megs.com, stormloader.com and homestead.com. For a fee, most of these hosts will remove the ads from the site.
Domain Name
Businesses will need a unique domain name. Personal sites have more flexibility; it is a matter of personal preference. Domain names are not expensive. Average cost is about $10; you should be able to find a domain name registrar for less if you look around. Domain names can be purchased at a registrar and it does not have to be the host you decide to do business with; however, many hosts offer domain names as part of the hosting package.
Planning The Site
Consider what kind of a site it is you want to build. Is it for a business, informational purposes, family pictures or reference? Maybe a combination of types. Next, work on site navigation. Do not make your visitor hunt through layers and layers of pages to find the information he or she is looking for. Most people will leave the site if they cannot find information they want quickly. Navigation needs to be simple and clearly laid out. Plan your content. What topics will you cover? What formats will be available: audio, text, video? Free articles are available at sites like articlesbase.com or you can outsource content for about a penny a word at an article writing service.
Page Building and Publishing
The web host you have chosen may have a page editor as part of the package, but often these are quite limited in what they can do; whether it will work for you depends on your needs. You can also use an editor such as Dreamweaver or Sandvox.
Filezilla and Cyberduck are two free FTP programs that you can use to transfer your files from your computer to your hosting site. These two programs are not the only free FTP programs around, so if you already have one or do not like either one of these, you can choose another.
Site Promotion And Maintenance
To promote your site you can hire a search engine optimization specialists or do it yourself. If you decide to do it yourself you will need to read several SEO do-it-yourself sites that have instructions on the basics of SEO (search engine optimization).
Maintaining your site is paramount in order to keep the visitors and search engines coming back to see what is new. But, once your initial site is up and running, maintaining it will not take more than two or three hours a week at most. These are the basic steps I took when I decided to build my own website.
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