Sunday, August 10, 2008

Startup Websites - How to start my first Website?

Now a days an internet business is considered to be a money earner for both starters and big corporates. For everyone internet has become an unavoidable world. Everyone wants to show their presence in this internet world. You need to have your own website/blog to start your e-commerce business or a personal website to show your presence. Whether you start a site for business or hobby all the rules explained here apply equally.

There are a number of ways you can build your first website.

1)Free websites without domain name

You can register at following websites and create your free website by following their instructions. Mostly you don't need programming knowledge. A little knowledge of HTML will be beneficial. To easily learn a bit of HTML and other programming techniques you can visit W3schools.com and other learning sites (searching in google for html).

Create your free websites here : Geocities.com Freewebs.com

Create your blog at Blogger.com

All have their own limitations. I don't recommend free websites if you are really serious about the outcome in your venture. The reason behind this is most visitors avoid free websites without an attractive domain name. Now a days domain registration and hosting costs have become unimaginably very cheap. Brand presence is more important for both small business owners and corporates.

2)Your own site with your registered domain name just like Blogger.com

To start your own website you must do following things :

First Register Domains

Register Domains for your desired domain name before others do. You need to research a lot to get a good domain name. The domain must be related to the industry of your choice. Domains can have 1-3 meaningful words. Shopping domains generally will have some words like shop,mall,discounts,coupons etc.. in the domain name. Travel domains have words like travel,tour,trip etc... Choose a name which is more related and attractive.

Recommended Register domain here : Moniker.com

3)Website Hosting

Don't waste your time, finish your site before you get a hosting account if possible. Some times testing your pages as you develop, in your hosting is also good.
Get a hosting account from a genuine/reliable website hosting provider.

Recommended Buy hosting here : IXWebHosting

4)Website Development

Build your website design, content, programming on your own or using 3rd party services. You can find free resources in the web for website templates, graphic images etc.. You can also find websites which offers services for low cost.

Website Templates

Highly Professional Pre-developed/Pre-designed web pages. They may be either CSS templates, Photoshop templates or Flash Templates. You don't need to change any design but just add your content. These templates saves your valuable time and money. You can also get free templates in the web (searching google for free templates). Some times free templates may not be your choice as they are not more professional to attract and keep up visitors to your website.

Recommended and Best :
BoxedArt

BoxedArt
- Get Full Membership access to all the world’s largest collection of Original Web Templates, Flash Templates, Print Templates and Graphic Elements etc...


Freelance Websites

You can submit your project details so that an expert can develop your work for you for much lower prices. From these freelance sites you can also get some home based jobs for you to earn money.

Recommended Freelance Sites : GetaFreelancer EuFreelance Scriptlance

Website Development Softwares :

For people who want to build their website with complete life-time support from development to promoting, they can use services from well-known website businesses. For example Site Sell offers you services in a single package like domain registration, website hosting, site development (you will be developing your site with their software), promoting websites using their software tools etc... with their complete support in all stages. You can visit Site Sell to learn more about their services.
There are also other sources (websites) ie. website development companies, on the web to develop your website.

Recommended website developer tools : Site Build it

3rd party website development services :

You can build your website from local web development companies in your place for cheap.
You can also use some freelance websites for that as described above. Some discussion forums also have threads for this where you can get cheaper but quality services from well-known companies and freelancers.

5)Website Content

The main thing you must need to know about before/after you build your website is SEO (Search Engine Optimized) Content in your website. This helps to drive organic traffic to your website from the search engines. Your content may be any text content like articles, news, discussions etc... Pages which contains good unique and quality text content will be indexed by search engines. When a search engine user such as google user types a keyword to search for websites, your indexed pages may come in the search results. If your website comes in the top list of first page in search engine, that's where your success is.

Some websites sells article contents for your website. See below for one of the best website.

Recommended : Niche Content Packages

6)Monetizing Websites

Monetizing websites is the main topic of our blog and will be discussed all over our blog. No doubt the real success of monetizing websites depends on the quality and quantity of visitors to your website. In reality
for most websites a visitor converting in to a regular customer is the real success for them. Driving traffic is a some what difficult task which beginners normally don't understand in the beginning. But as the time goes you will grasp what is needed and when it is needed.

Well my website is ready, what next?

Read my series of articles.



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