Tips for making a website

Making a website isn't difficult - once you know how! But where do you start? What is the best way?
Do you want/need to learn how to build a Website, personal or business, and are looking for clear and comprehensive information, help and advice?
Here you will learn how to make your own website using easy to understand, step by step articles and tutorials designed especially for beginners.
You can Learn to:

• Set up and Build a  personal ,hobby, affiliate, business or ecommerce/shop
• Choose the best web building technology for your site
• Choose a domain name and a host.
• Make a simple one or two page website.
• Setup a site or blog using a content management site - WordPress.
• Build an online Shop/ecommerce site.
• Build a Mobile website.

What You Will Need To Start

There are only two things that you really need:-

• A Domain Name
• A Web Host

I recommend that you purchase them together and from the same provider.

Your Website Building Options

The technology and tools used to build websites and web pages has changed considerably over the years, and it has become much easier for non technical website owners to create their own site.
 This site covers the main two website building methods:

• Standard HTML/PHP web page templates
• WordPress

Which can be used for setting up and building a personal or small business website .
Ecommerce sites are different from content based sites, and because of their specialized nature they are covered separately in Setting up/building Ecommerce Sites.

Mobile Websites

Mobile websites are also becoming popular due to the increase in internet access from mobile devices. Do you need one? and what are they exactly? See Building Mobile websites.

Building vs Design

In order to build a website you don't need to be a web designer! What a web designer does is often misunderstood by most small business owners looking to get their business on the web.
Often small business owners will spend a lot of money on a professional bespoke web design, and only later on find that the site isn't getting any traffic of doesn't convert to sales.
Just looking good is not the the goal of a website. No one comes to your website to look at the design!

Software Tools and Costs

You can build a website using basic software that you should already have on your home PC or that is available for free on the Internet.
For small 1-10 page websites then the cost of website building software like Dreamweaver is totally unjustified.
If you take the WordPress route then the web page editor is included as part of the platform.
If you do most of the work yourself then Making a Website for under £100 is easily achievable.