First step towards making a website is to plan for one. Identify the site objective and try to determine what the site in question is supposed to deliver. Get a pen and paper ready and jot down the ideas that come to your mind. You need to select your site topic or niche at this early stage.
Next step towards building a site would be trying to identify your target audience. You need to know whether your visitors will be visiting your site to gather information, to view some of your pictures that you took on your last trip to Cuba, or they will be clicking on your product/services sales link to buy your products and services. Site design and content will be different based on what type of audience you want to cater to.
If you are building a content based site and would like to promote the site to get enough traffic that end up converting to sales, then you should keep SEO (search engine optimization) in your planning stage. Make sure you do some keyword research to determine how your visitors will be finding your site and launch an SEO campaign to drive traffic to your site once its done.
Once the site is built, you will then need to register a domain name and sign up with a hosting plan to host your site. There are few reputable domain registers such as CheapDomainsNames, 1and1, CheapDomainsNames, etc where you can register your domain name from. When it comes to hosting your site, there are quite a few web hosts that you can consider. CheapDomainsNames provides reliable economic hosting for beginners where CheapDomainsNames offers PHP hosting packages for intermediate to advanced level site owners.
Once your site is designed and uploaded to your hosting server, you then need to promote your site to drive traffic to it. If you want people to find your site and visit, then you need to put together a promotional plan to drive targeted traffic to your site. You can either do a little research online on how to promote a site or hire a website marketing company or an SEO company who can promote your site.
Pretty much every single average Joe has a website of his own these days. Whether you are making a website as a hobby or to run an online business, there are few basic elements that you need to consider in order to make a successful website. No matter whether it is a few pages personal website or a full blown commercial site, you need to do some planning before you can actually start.
Once all the planning and prep work is done, next step would be to build the actual site. You can either use HTML, CSS, PHP, ASP, or other languages to build a site. Which language you will use would depend on your familiarity and comfort level. If you are not familiar with any, then you can either use a pre-made site template to build on that or outsource your site design to a web site developer.
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