How to Create a Website

Steps for Creative a Website

Get Your Domain Name
The very first thing you have to do before anything else is to get a domain name. This is the name you intend to give to your site. To get a domain name, you need to pay an annual fee to a registrar for the right to make use of that name. Getting a name cannot get you a website it’s just simply a name. It’s kind of like registering a company name in the real world; getting that business name does not necessarily mean that you also have the shop building to go with it.

Choose a Web Host and Sign Up for an Account
A web host is actually a company that has a lot of computers connected to the Internet. Once you place your web pages on their computers, everyone on the planet can connect to it and look at them. You will have to sign up for an account with a web host to let your site have a home. If obtaining a domain name is comparable to obtaining a business name in the real world, getting a web hosting account is just like renting office or shop premises for your business.

Designing your Web Pages
After you have settled your domain name and web host, the next step would be to design the site itself. In case you are hiring a web designer to get it done, you can skip this step, since that person will handle it on your behalf.Although there are numerous things to consider in web design as a novice, your starting point is to in fact get something out onto the web. The adjustment may come after you might have learned how to publish a basic web page. One method is by using a WYSIWYG web editor, acronym for “What You See Is What You Get” to get it done. This kind of editor enables you to design your website visually, without needing to muck around with the technical details. They function the same way as a normal wordprocessor.

There are many free and commercial web editors around. One free and also open source editor for Mac OS X, Linux and Windows, is BlueGriffon. You can get a guide on how exactly to use this editor from my BlueGriffon Tutorial.

For many who would rather use a commercial program, thesitewizard.com has several online tutorials for a web editor called Dreamweaver

Testing Your Website
You will have to test your web pages after you design them, in the leading browsers: Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Internet Explorer 11. Each one of these browsers are available at no cost, so there should be no challenge getting them, directly testing your website is the only way you can be actually sure that it really works the way you desire it to on your visitors’ devices, in addition if you have a smartphone, try out your new website on it too.

Getting Your Site Noticed
Once your website is set, you can submit it to search engines like Google or Ask. Generally, if your website is already linked to by other websites, you probably will not even have to submit it to these search engines. They are going to locate it themselves by simply following the links on those websites. Besides submitting your website to the search engine, you may even consider promoting it in other ways, like the usual way people would do things before the advent of the Internet: ads in the newspapers, word-of-mouth, search engine optimization and so on and on.