How to build a Quick Website
Have you ever considered the possibility of building your own website but been put off by the technical challenges the project represents?
In this article, we will talk about a method that I have used many times to create quick and easy websites with little or no software costs.
My method is explained in fuller detailed in a report entitled How to Build a Website.
Your task begins with choosing a domain name. When you go to the address bar of a website and type in www.thisdomain.com you are typing in a URL. I tend to think of the term URL as tech speak for the location of a site on the world wide web.
Once you have decided upon a name you have to register it before someone else does. Here you may find some difficulty as many good names have already been reserved. Go to a domain name registrar and type in terms. When a term that you like is available, register it immediately.
The next thing you need to do is secure a hosting agreement. A hosting provider will provide you with the ability to upload your pages to the web. There are many hosting companies you can use and their services are usually quite inexpensive.
A few technical steps are needed at this stage to direct your new domain name towards your hosting account. I go into greater detail on the resource that I mentioned above and again in my resource box below this article.
After you have completed these steps, you will need to find a html editor, that is a piece of software that will allow you to create pages for your website. Whether you would rather find a free resource or pay for a more professional program, you have quite a few options.
I enjoy using a platform called wordpress because it is free and very easy to use. Wordpress provides a backend interface that allows non-technical type people, like me, to quickly and easily create webpages and make changes to the pages I have up on my website.
This option is very appealing to me because it means that I do not have hire an expensive technical person every time I want to make a simple change to my website or add a simple page. I go into detail and showcase a few videos about using wordpress as well as other html editors in my report.
About the Author: Rob Bennett has been building websites for over a year and feels his hobbyist approach relates well to the average, non-technical-type, webmaster. He provides step by step instructions on how to build a website in just a few hours on his squidoo lens http://www.squidoo.com/how-to-build-a-website1.
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