Design Your Own Website

Many of you out there want to design your own website.  You may be working with a very limited amount of cash or you just want to learn how to do it on your own.  You have many options to choose from on how to do this.  I will only talk about a few and also what I like best.

 

Before you begin, you need to know why you want a website.  What are you expecting to get out of the experience?  Do you have just one item to sell or many items?  Do you just wanting your storefront to have a listing where your customers can learn basic information about your company? Do you want to include a blog so you can give frequently updated information to your customers?

 

If you just have products you want to sell, you can easily skip designing a custom website for your self and go pay www.Ebay.com, www.Yahoo.com, or www.Google.com for their website stores.  Each one is priced a little different and each one offers a little different service.  However, the down side to this is you don’t have full control over the look of your site and how many pictures you can add and so forth.  Also, over time they can become more cost consuming than doing it yourself or having a professional like me design for you.

 

For more control, you will want to use an HTML editor to create your website from scratch.  There are many to choose from: some cost money and some are free.  I personally like Netscape 7.02 free composer found at www.Netscape.com. This is where I start and then modify HTML code as needed.  I also like to use CoffeeCup HTML editor from www.CoffeeCup.com.  They have a free version.

 

Next, I need a domain name and hosting.  I absolutely love GoDaddy.  I can get domain names for as little as 99cents.  I can host more than one domain name with my hosting account. 

 

It is really easy to upload my files to my hosting for free by using www.Mozilla.com FireFTP addon.

 

I even can upload my free blog from www.blogger.com to my hosting account and have it match my website.  This does take a little knowledge about HTML code.  You blog can be hosted with www.blogger.com for free if you don’t know how to do anything else yet.

 

Have I confused you yet?  I hope not.  If I have then start with something simple like www.Ebay.com or visit my Website Design Page to learn how inexpensive my Website Design services really are.

 

Happy Designing!