Basic Steps On How To Make A Website

Most customers will expect to be able to find your business on the internet. Whether you are selling your products online, or simply want to provide some information about your business and your contact details, having a website is almost essential.


It's a good idea to think about what you hope to achieve with your website before you start creating one. Researching your competitors' websites can help you get a clear idea of what may work best for you.


To make a website, you need to follow these basic steps.




Choose a Domain Name


In order to build a website, the very first thing you’ll need is a domain name. The domain name is your website name and address. That address is used by visitors when they try to find your site through their web browsers. Domain names can cost anywhere from $10 to $50 a year. The usual price tag is around $15.


If you haven’t registered or chosen a domain name for your website, here are some tips to help you out:


If you’re making a website for a business, your domain name should match your company name. For example: YourCompanyName.com


If you’re planning to set up a personal website for yourself then YourName.com can be a great option.


Use a generic domain name extension such as .com, .net or .org if your goal is international visitors. Use a “local” domain name extension such as .de, .fr, or .ru if your goal is country-targeted visitors.


Don’t worry if your preferred domain name is already taken. There are more than 300 million different domain names registered, but there are a billion other possibilities that are still available.




Get Web Hosting and Register Domain


In addition to having a domain name, you’ll also need website hosting. Web hosting is a service that hosts and stores your website files (content) on a secure server that is always up and running. Without a web host, your site will not be accessible for others to read and browse. Affordable and reliable web hosting for new websites costs usually between $3 to $10 a month. Less than a cup of coffee, but an important investment for your website success.


Whichever web hosting company you sign up with, make sure it has the following features:


FREE domain name with SSL (for security)

One-click-install for WordPress (free)

Custom email accounts

Unlimited or unmetered bandwidth (no traffic limitations)

Customer support, preferably 24/7 live chat


If you find a website hosting that offers all of the things above, you’ve likely found a good provider.



Customize Your Website Design and Structure


With your bare website alive and kicking, it’s now time to make it feel more like your own by picking a nice design, customizing it, and adding branding elements.



Add Content/Pages to Your Website

Pages are the essence of your website. From a technical point of view, a web page is just a document on the web. It’s not very different from your traditional Word document apart from it having your website’s branding elements such as the header and footer. Web pages are easy to create in WordPress. But before we get into the how-to, let’s discuss what pages you should create in the first place.


Most websites will find the following pages essential:


Homepage – it’s the first page that your visitors see when they go to your website

About page – a page explaining what your website is about

Contact page – a page letting visitors contact you

Blog page – a listing of your most recent blog posts; if you’re not planning on blogging, you can use the blog page as a place for your company news and announcements

Services page – if the website you’re building is for a business, use this page to showcase your services

Shop page – for companies that want to launch an eCommerce store



Many of the pages above will be very similar in structure – the only difference being the content on the actual page. Basically, once you learn how to create one page, you’ll know how to create them all. 





Set Up a Navigation Menu


With a range of good-looking pages created, the next step in our quest to how to create a website is to set up your navigation (a website menu). The menu is what your visitors will use to go from page to page on your site.

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