How Do I Start My Own Website ?
Your Own Site
Starting your own website is a great idea for many reasons. Many people start with a personal page on a social website like Facebook but soon grow tired of the restrictions. With your own website, there are very few if any restrictions.
Your own website can be rewarding.in many ways. You can create a site around an interest of yours, learn more about it and connect with people with similar interests.In a way, the website is a brand new art form.If you wish, you can even make an income with your website. If you are very lucky or talented, you could make a fortune. It happens every day.
Cheap is Better Than Free
Its true. Cheap is better than free. I once sent away for a free dvd. The shipping and handling was 8.95.
When creating your own website, you have two initial choices.
- Make a "free" website
- Get a web host
With a free website, you usually get a sub domain instead of a primary domain. In other words instead of www.yoursite.com, you get www.yoursite.freeweb.com . Does this make a difference? Believe it or not, it does make a huge difference. Any regular web user will come to recognize this subdomain as being inferior. It tells the average user right away that this is probably not a professional website.
There are many other reasons, but the bottom line is a free website will not get a lot of traffic or respect.
In addition to that, your site is very limited in design. You may have the sites advertisements all over your information. You could even wake up one morning and find your website is gone. The host has the right to remove your sub domain for whatever reason. Why put all that work into something that can be removed for any reason?
Best Web Host?
So lets say you decided to make your website a professional website, and you are going to get a web host.
How do you choose the best host? What are the important things to look for?
- reliability and uptime (does the website go offline?)
- speed
- support
- features and price
Support is very important. At some point in building your own website, you are going to want to do something that requires help. Look for a host that offers several support options. In particular, I like chat support. if you have a question, you can get an immediate answer. Video libraries are also good so you can research a topic and study it by watching videos.
Finally, features and price are important. Most of the hosts offer tons of goodies.I suggest you get a host that gives you a free domain name. There is no reason to pay extra for this, most of the hosts give it to you free.Unlimited space, emails, auto responder, backup tools, and the best applications to create your website. Most of them offer the latest Content Management System applications such as Wordpress and Joomla. They also give you the best programs to make blogs, forums and photo galleries. The price should be a competitive price for a year of service, and they should offer a guarantee in case you are not satisfied. There is at least one host that offers an "anytime money back guarantee". If you are not happy 40 days from starting, or whenever, you get a refund.
Two Steps
There are really only two steps to creating your own website.
- Get a Web Host
- Create the Website
I suggest using Wordpress to create your website. Wordpress is a great application that makes it easy to build a professional site. Wordpress websites are even automatically optimized for the best search engine results.
Its easy to make things more complicated that necessary, but the above steps are really all you need to get going.
Here is a website that helps you get started. It lists the current best deal on web hosting and helps you get started creating your website with Wordpress.
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Good luck with your new website !
Bob W 2 years ago
Good info, thanks