How to Create a Website

So you’ve decided you want to make a website, you’ll need a few thing to get yourself started. Building a website can be very rewarding, but it’s also very challenging. Having a website is great for promoting, for selling a product and giving information.

If you are creating a website for the first time, bookmark this site. It will be really useful to you. I tell you everything you need to know and walk you through each step of the process - free!

There's a lot of information on this site. I created this quick guide just to give you an idea of what's involved with creating a website.

Planning your website

Planning out before you start is important when building a website. Before you start, you will need to decide what the website is to be about. Its all about Finding a your niche.

What are you going to say? List the information you currently have. For example photos, brochures, company logo and written materials.

Make a detailed outline of additional information you need to obtain. Once you know where you are short on content, concentrate on those deficits and avoid wasting time on information you already know.

Do your research before you write? What would success look like? Do you want to just provide information or sell products?

Search engines like lots of text and “popular” sites—ones that lots of people link to. If you are going to get most of your leads from search engines, you will need to identify which search keywords you wish to target, as well as develop content and consider a reciprocal linking campaign (exchanging links with similar sites). The time and effort you'll need to spend on your search engine placement also depends heavily on the competitiveness of your keywords.

Let's start to make your own website with a quick overview of what's involved in building a website.

STEPS TO CREATE A WEBSITE

1. Register a domain name(web address)

2. Choose a web hosting company (web space)

3. Create your website (design and structure)

4. Upload / ftp files to hosting server

5. Promote your website - build website traffic

6. Monetize your website (make money)

Build a Website

Build website To build a website yourself you need some type of web building software. There are two ways you can get this software:

1. Free from your web host. Some web hosts provide a web site builder that includes free hosting and email. This is the best choice for beginners. All you need to do is click on the design you want and then add your text. It's really easy.

2. With an HTML editor. There are a couple of different stand alone build a website software programs that you can buy and use to build your website yourself. You can use the free HTML editors that can be found at Download page.

For your first web page you will use the free HTML editor and a free template.

Just download the zip file for the free HTML template you want to use for your site. Then add your own content and graphics inside the coding where indicated.

I would recommend using an editor like CoffeeCup to edit the HTML templates, but you can use any program that can read .html files. I prefer to use Dreamweaver. That is what I use to maintain this website.