The Simple Steps For Building A Website

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by Michael Blair

There are not many steps for building a website. The secret is just “do it”, don’t wait until you are some kind of expert, you’ll learn as you build the first one, then two, then three, and so on …

1. To start with you either need to be an expert at coding HTML, PHP, ASP, Java Script or…. better yet, don’t worry about knowing anything and just get yourself a website builder, a program or tool that puts together a website for you with little effort .The tools can be gotten for free or purchased and others are available for a nominal cost (considering what they can do) if you have something “special” in mind.

Without knowing too much when it come HTML, you will learn a little just by building sites then you’ll be able to put that knowledge to work on the next website you build and build better and better sites as you go, you’ll be able to build your first website.

You can do a search for “free website builder” (only about 600,000 - 700,000 listings out there) and try a few out.

If you only have a few “extra” hours each week and you don’t have the time to devote to a website builder, free or not, you can purchase a website builder that helps you generate the pages with little work by you. They will cost you a little, but they will build the entire website in a matter of minutes.

Now there are also applications, WYSWYG applications (What You See is What You Get). This makes designing a website more like typing a document in a word processor and is something that just about anyone can understand. You type, like you do in Word or WordPerfect, and it converts what you type into the HTML coding that a web page needs. These are somewhat pricey, but they

2. Another thing you need, of course is a, domain name. Do a search for “choose a domain name” and you will find the steps to selecting a good domain name (there are too many suggestions for this article). Another idea is to go check out NameBoy.com, they are totally free and may help you find the domain name you want. You should not use the name of a well-known company or product, any variation of that name, in hopes of attracting people to your site. Not only is this unethical and it may subject you to legal problems.

3. Purchase hosting for your website. A “host” is who puts your website up on the Internet. There are many inexpensive hosting packages out there, some even give you a domain name for free.

4. Creating content, or have someone do it for you, the stuff that fills the page, holds the visitors interest, attracts the search engines and sells whatever it is that you are selling affiliate products, your own products, ebooks, or even Adsense.

If you have plenty of free time you can write the content for your pages, the articles, yourself. But if you are busy and don’t have the time, like me, you can find article writers, via Internet Marketing forums, who will write these articles for you.

Not too much work is it? You do need to work on the sego (search engine optimization) of the page as in the meta tags of the pages, the headlines and the keywords.

Now that your site is up on the Internet you need to start working on getting visitors to come by your site. And the way you do that, among other things, is to submit the site to search engines, directories, maybe even pay per click. But the important thing is already done, building a website and putting it up on the Internet

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