It is a good idea to have a website. It could be one to promote your small business, to provide information to others or to interact with your family members who are in different locations. Whatever is the purpose of having your own website, the basics on website building is the same. Since you are a beginner who has no knowledge on how to build websites, it is a good idea to do it in well defined steps. Before venturing into the job of website building, you need to decide the purpose of your website.
1. You need to decide a name for your website. This will be your domain name. It will also appear in your URL. The norm is to have a two word name with the first word being the keyword of your website.2. Once you have chosen your domain name, you need to register it. There are lots of online registrars for domain names and it will cost only very little. When you try to register the name it is quite possible that your name is already registered in which case you need to do a lot of brain storming to find an alternative name.
3. The next step is to find a web hosting company. There could be many in your locality. Also there are many in the internet. It is always better to find a reputed company. You could find a company to host your website for less than $10 per month. When you get the web hosting done by a company, they will provide the website building software free of charge. There are two types of software provided by them.
· Template type software
· What you see is what you get editors
When you get the first type, you could select the templates and fill them in order to complete each page. In case of WYSIWYG editors you need to write your text and paste it there. When you want to add graphics, these software programs will provide easy ways to scan your computer and find the graphics you need. By this time you have your website visible in the internet. Now you have the option to add the necessary frills to make it attractive. Also you need to maintain it.
There are certain rules to follow when you create your website. One is that when you add your text you need to type your content only in note pad. You cannot use word processing programs to write content for web pages. If you find it more convenient to use a word processing program, you could type it there and paste it in the note pad before again copying into the web page. Another point is that if yours is a website for a small business, you need to have some search engine optimization to do. One of the most important needs is to have at least 300 words of text in the home page with a keyword density of over 2%. These instructions are more than enough for you to have a decent website.
