If you’re here it’s because you are at least considering making your own website.
The Problem: Paying someone else to make and host a website for you can be amazingly expensive and you have little direct control of the site.
Here, I will help you learn to setup your own website that you can fully control. My goal is for you to find it easy and even fun while using free or inexpensive tools that help you avoid headache inducing programming and coding tedium.
Believe it or not, putting up a website can be cheap, easy, and fun!
Why would someone need a website? The list is almost infinite but here are some reasons I’ve made websites for myself:
- personal site for family and friends to see pictures, etc
- professional website to post your credentials, resume, etc.
- Business advertising – a simple site with your services and contact info
- Business portal – a place to display detailed information on your products, offer customer service, downloads, and even support forums and blogs.
- web based business such as a storefront or membership based site.
- hobby or interest site such as a photography or church website.
- Revenge or warning site- I have made these when I have been defrauded by a business to let others know to avoid a company or person.
- event site such as weddings. You can post your progress and use a blog as an online diary.
There are many more reasons for someone to want a website but you get the point.
The web has come a long way in usability since I first went online in the mid 90′s. In those days, if you wanted to put up a website you had to pay an arm and a leg for the domain name and web hosting was more like a mortgage than a bill. Once you spent all that money you then had to know how to code in HTML which was pretty much done by memory or with a fat programming book.
Nowadays, domain names are often free with a hosting plan that you can get for $5 – $7 a month – Sweet!
There are also numerous tools out there that let you simply type your content and drag and drop pictures without knowing a lick of HTML or code.
Knowing that these inexpensive options are available, it really is a shame that people are afraid of doing it themselves and end up paying someone else hundreds or thousands of dollars to do it for them.
Let’s move on. We’ll start by discussing Choosing a Domain Name
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