Building Your Website

Building Your Website

Have you picked a host provider? If so you are now ready to choose how you will build your website. You already have a URL, you should have received a username and password for your host account. Let us talk about some tools you can use to design a website. We will only cover a few tools, you should know there are way too many to try to cover at this time.

The first tool is Wordpress. Wordpress is a free open source blogging tool, however it does so much more than just build a blogging website. This tool will allow you to build a fully functional website, and you cannot beat free. Most hosting sites allow you to access wordpress through their website. For instance, if you chose http://www.godaddy.com or http://bluehost.com they provide a link to the Wordpress software. Wordpress also provides all the support you will need at their website http://www.wordpress.com. If you have not chose a host provider, you can even create you website directly from their site, just click create your site and fill out the form. On the other hand if you already have a host provider, look for the link on your host providers site. Here is a link to, wordpress getting started guide http://products.secureserver.net/guides/wordpressgsg.pdf, if you would like to know more about this tool and website.

If you own a Mac, than you probably have access to iweb, iweb normally comes preloaded on Mac computers, if it did not, than you should buy this program. Iweb is a WYSIWYG website creation tool and it is easy to use. Click here http://www.apple.com/support/iweb to learn more about this amazing web tool. HTML is the universal language used for diplaying web pages and other information that is displayed in a web browser. However with the tools today, you would need very little training in HTML. There is software for PC users, but I have not used any of todays programs. Sorry, maybe I will do some research, and explore this further.

Your host provider should provide a full suite of webtools and you will find full support from each host. What about price, you will find that there will be two distinct prices one for domain registration normally paid by the year. The other price, will be for the hosting account, yes two different prices. You will also have to renew both the domain registration and hosting account every year, or two years. The cost will vary from host to host, and I would suggest that when you first sign up, pay for two years, the discounts are great.

In my next post I will go into a little detail about each option above, but you will find that once you get started, there will be a plethora of information from the host provider. What my purpose here is to get you started. I would like to impress upon you the importance of building a strong brand. You never know if your site will become the next big thing, and if it does, I want in on it. Up and coming sites get bought by bigger fish all the time, yours could be next site. So when building your site, build to fulfil a need, “If you build it they will come,” you have already found a niche, now you will need to transfer that niche from your blog to your website. 

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