HOW TO MAKE A WEBSITE
Building Your Own Website Is Easy and Fun!
Building a website used to be difficult, you had to learn how to write in html and
other scripting languages to pull it all together. Today there are programs that
take out all the behind the scenes coding and is more like building a word
document with pictures. The program writes the code in the background. A lot of
the programs are what you see is what you get type of development, click, drag
and drop, etc.
Steps to Building Your Own Website
1.
Picking Your Website Domain Name
2.
How To Register A Domain Name
3.
How To Find A Web Hosting Company
4.
How To Host Multiple Websites On One Hosting Account
5.
Website Building Software
6.
Search Engine Optimization SEO
7.
Monetize Your Website
8.
Marketing and Branding Your Website
Picking Your Website Domain Name
It’s all in a name. The first step is coming up with a unique, simple, catchy, short,
easy for people to remember, domain name for your website. A website address,
or domain name, really is one of the most important decisions to make. It’s what
you will refer people to. It’s what you will talk about. It’s what people need to
remember. Your website name can help you, or it can hurt you, in your search
engine rankings, and in the decision website visitors will make to decide whether
to click on your website name in the search engine results. SEO optimization is
critical to bringing visitors to your website. It needs to be easy to spell,
phonetically make sense, and be relevant to your website content. Start thinking
about what it is your goals are. What it is that will be on your website, whether it’s
content, products, services, business opportunities, etc. Then start thinking about
names, you will need to come up with ten, twenty, thirty, before you find one that
is not already in use or owned. Then start looking them up to see if they are
available. Don’t get discouraged, most of the ones you think of will probably
already be owned by someone.
How To Register A Domain Name
There are many different companies out there that are constantly buying up
domain names only to sell them for hundreds and thousands of times what they
pay for them, if they are really good names. Go to the link below and start
searching for your perfect domain name. Once you find a domain name that you
like, that is not already owned by someone, you can purchase the domain name,
and now it will be yours. When you search for a domain name, it will come back
with a response that the domain name is available, and you can add it to your
cart and buy it. You will be able to select if you want to buy it for one year, two
years, three years, or more. I would start with one year, and before it expires you
can decide if you want to keep it and renew it for another term for as long as you
want.
Click the Image Below to Search For Your Website Name
How To Find A Web Hosting Company
The next step is to sign up for a hosting account. All hosting providers are not
created equal. Two of the more popular ones are GoDaddy, and Blue Host.
GoDaddy provides a good service, great speeds, and high uptime, but SSL
certificates can be expensive. Blue Host has provided me with a higher level of
service than GoDaddy, so I strongly recommend the Blue Host platform for web
hosting. I had great service with GoDaddy, but what sold me on Blue Host is that
they provide you with the SSL certificate, saving a lot of money over the course of
each year. They create the certificates, and it’s all built right into their platform.
The navigation of their hosting accounts are simple to use and quick to learn.
BlueHost has a full list of their plans available if you click on this link you can
review them and make a decision on what hosting plan will work for you. Click on
“Host Your Site” and there are four hosting plans listed. I recommend that you
take a look at their two highest plans. The main difference between the two is
whether you need a static IP address (most websites do not), and optimized
server resources for those websites with high traffic volumes. You can always
start with the second to highest level and if your site grows you can instantly
upgrade at any time.
How To Host Multiple Websites On One Hosting Account
As you add additional websites and domains to your website portfolio, you do
not need additional hosting accounts. You can add as many websites you want to
buy to your one hosting account at no additional costs. You simply copy the files
for your other websites into their own folder. The only cost you have is the yearly
fee for domain name registration, which is typically about fifteen dollars. No
additional hosting costs.
Website Building Software
Now that you are ready to start building your website, you can use site builders
from the hosting company, but I recommend investing in a wesite building
software that is easy to use. A software that includes free website templates to
make it easy, to make it so the website is saved on your own computer so you
have it in your control is fairly inexpensive. It is also well worth it. Xara Web
Designer is the simplest, and fastest to learn web design software we have used.
They also have XARA Cloud that includes the locally installed Xara Web Design
software, and a cloud service to save and work on your website online. This is the
greatest deal because you get the online storage, and editing capability to share
your projects, and you get all the new updates to the locally installed software as
well.
Search Engine Optimization
One of the best way to get good quality web traffic is to bring traffic to your
website from the major search engines. When someone is searching for your
product, topic, or service, they will typically click on the top three to five search
results. So you want to optimize your website for search engines so that you will
rank higher in the search results. Check out our SEO Search Engine Optimization
page for more information.
Monetize Your Website
Now that you have built your website, and you are getting a steady flow of
website visitors, you can now start to monetize your website and start to make
money. Read more about monetizing your website on our website monetization
page. It’s critical to wait until you are getting good traffic numbers so that
vendors will approve you as an affiliate.
Marketing and Branding Your Website
A really great service for making your own marketing and branding materials is
XARA. Xara Cloud is a document creation and editing tool that enables anyone to
create professional quality marketing materials for their business. It is quick and
easy to learn. It is very easy to get started with their ready made templates and
other resources. No design experience needed, just point and click and what you
see is what you get. Simple, yet perfect.
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Michelle Mendenhall
Professional Business Broker, IBBA
Commercial Real Estate Sales & Leasing Associate
Phone: 916.459.7526
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