Saturday, 31 May 2014

Will I Be Able To Build My Own Website?

If want to have a business - or, quite frankly, if you want to sell anything at all - you will need a website of your own. But a website can cost money, and when you are trying to save everything you can to start your business, you don't really want to spend extra on a website. Because of this, lots of people who are just starting their business want to know if they can build their own website. If you have ever wondered this yourself, the answer is that - as long as you know a few specific things - you can absolutely build your own website.

You will first have to register your own domain name, before you can ever build your website on your own. It can be relatively inexpensive to register a domain name (as little as $10 per year), so the toughest part is finding a domain name that will work for you. For anyone who has a unique name for their company (or who has a unique name of their own), this part is easy; it is when your desired domain name is already taken that it can take time!

The next step will be finding a template that will enable you to pretty much set up and run everything on your own. You will be able to update, change, and adjust your site whenever you want if you use a template such as a Wordpress template.

And you will need to make sure you put in some time doing research if you have a desire to design your website on your own. If you want to have a lot of freedom in the way your website looks, you will need to make sure you first research some basic HTML coding; it's not very complicated, and it is very important! And the other bit of research you will need to do is make sure you find out as much as you can about the process of building a website. The book Learning Web Design is one of the best resources for this, and although it is a $45 book, it is only $25 on Amazon!

Once you put in the time to learn what you are doing, you will be able to start building your website - and you will be able to make it look exactly how you want it!

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