How to Make a Website
Learn How To Make Your Own Website
If you have come here to learn how to make a website for the first time you will find lots of information and tutorials to help you to start a website or blog. No matter which type of website you want to build there are a lot of different options and although it might seem confusing at first, it really is quite simple.
Why Make a Website?
There are lots of different reasons for starting a website and people create a website for a variety of reasons, to share information about a subject that is important to them, to promote their business and most commonly to make money online!
How Much Does it Cost to Make a Website?
There are two main types of websites you can make, a free website or a self hosted site. The average cost to host and create a website yourself is between $100 and $120 dollars a year. A free site is just that, free, but you should be aware that there are limitations on what you can do with a free site and if you want to make money online then it is usually not the best option.
Which Website Should I Make?
This site focuses on making self hosted websites. To create a website or a blog you need two things, a domain name and a hosting package. A domain name is the address that your website will have, a good way to understand it is to think about how you would set up a real world business. Your domain name would be similar to the name you choose for your business. Website hosting means renting space on the world wide web to place your site, just as you would rent an office or building for your real world business. Luckily buying a domain name and hosting is a lot cheaper than setting up a real business.
Business Websites and Personal Websites
So maybe you want to set up a website to promote an existing business venture or perhaps you want to create a personal site about something you love, such as traveling. Whatever the reason the type of site you set up is up to you. The methods for starting your site are the same.
Website or Blog?
The next thing you need to decide is whether you should make a website or a blog. Building a blog is ultimately easier but is slightly more restrictive in how you can customize it, creating a website from scratch means learning html and css and takes more time but in the long run you will have a site that is much more customizable and can be expanded over time to include many extras that you cannot do with a blog.
Whichever you choose will depend on how much time you have to invest in your website, learning how to use html and css is time consuming but you should be aware that even if you decide to make a blog you may find that you need to use at least basic html and css to customize it at a later stage.
If you decide to build a full website it is easy to add a blog to your site later on. Whichever you decide to do is ok, it's your website and you can change it as often as you like.
Create A Website Today
There are two basic steps that you need to take for any kind of website, you must buy a domain name and hosting, the links below will tell you exactly how to get set up.
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