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How to create a website

How to create a website

Kate Pope Kate Pope

Creating a site can be useful for many purposes. You can use it to start an online business, share your expertise on a particular topic or to establish an online presence and communicate with other people. Read on to find out how to make your own web page in a few easy steps.

Get a domain name

The first thing that you need to do in order to build a website is to get yourself a domain name. A domain name is simply the address of a website. To register a domain name, you will have to pay an annual fee to a registrar. Fortunately, a domain name usually costs only a few dollars and must be paid for once per year. You can also get a discount by paying several years in advance. Try to choose a domain name that is easy to remember and one that ends with .com, in order to get more traffic.

Choose a web host

After buying a domain name, you need to find a web hosting provider to place your web pages and make them accessible to everyone. There are many types of web hosting to choose from, like standard web hosting, dedicated hosting, and free hosting. The last option may sound tempting, but it has a few serious drawbacks. Free hosting may enable you to build a website for free and even avoid paying for a domain name, but it’s actually a bad choice. The company may display its own ads to your page so as to earn money from your website. What is more is that you probably won’t have access to most features because they will be part of a "premium" package which will cost money. Therefore, free hosting is certainly not the ideal method of starting a website.

Design your web pages

Web design can be quite a difficult process. The first thing that you need to do is to “tell” the browser how a web page should appear, by using the HyperText Markup Language (HTML). To do that, you will have to write the HTML code from scratch in notepad. Learning HTML is not very hard. There are many tutorials online that can help you to learn basic HTML in a few hours. However, if you are not into learning web programming, there are easier solutions. You can use a WYSIWYG software program or an online site creation tool.

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