The Guide to Making a Web Site

2007-03-08 10:33:40

( Web Hosting-SEO-Web Design )



Making a web site is a seemingly simple matter. However, making a web site is a complicated and tedious process that needs careful planning. If you build your own web site without the requisite steps and proper consideration it deserves, the results would be less than optimal and your efforts towards making a web site will thus be wasted.

Before you get your own web site, ask yourself what the object of your website is. This will in turn be based on the nature of your business organization. If you are a merchant wishing to sell online, then your web site should reflect this purpose. Your site needs a display list of your products, a means for making payments, and security features to protect your customers’ financial information. After deciding the purpose of your web site, you must now create your website.

You need to gather information on how to create a web site before you go and purchase domain names and the like. The simplest option that you have in starting your own web site is to pay a web site designer a fee to create the web site for you. You just need to specify what the purpose of the web site is and how you want the web site to look like. You also need to tell the designer what applications you will need in your web site.

Another option that you could take is to buy a ready-made web site template from a web designer. This option is cheaper than the first one but it gives you limited choices. You can only choose one template from among the available templates that you may use for your own. And if you have no basic skills in web site design, the templates will not do you much good. A variation of this option is borrowing a free web site template from a web site template source.

The final option that you have is to build your own web site. This option is by far the best of all because you will know what you need for your site to look like and what functions it will have to serve. However, you need training before you can even attempt to build your own web site. But the investment on a training school for making a web site will be worth what you will be able to accomplish afterwards. If you have the skills, maintaining your web site will also be easier.

At this point, you should gather information on how to publish your web site. This is because after you have made a web site, you now need to publish it on the internet so that you can begin profiting from it. To do this, you need to retain the services of a web host which will house your files and store your applications. The web host has a server connected to the internet and this makes your web site available for the world to see. In this matter, you will have a choice among free web hosts, paid shared servers, paid virtual private servers, and paid dedicated servers.


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