How to make a website

Website has become the necessity of any upcoming or flourishing business.

 

How to make a website– if this is the question popping up in your mind and if you are planning to have a new one, here are few basic tips to read before you make the real Launch!

 

 

A website is considered to be your Internet identity. Business websites thus act as an online representative of the company and thus have to designed and maintained accordingly.

Aspects of building a website –

• Domain Name Registration – name for your website.
• Web Hosting – Rental space on web server for hosting your website pages.
• Web Page Design, web applications and web content design and development.
• Website Content Management
• Website Promotion
  

  How to make a website –

  1. Search and register a domain name through a domain registering company. A domain name can be a company name or name that can give user the idea of what the site is about.
  2. Review and choose the appropriate web hosting company. While planning online shopping website, check the technical support of the hosting company.
  3. Understand the basic need of making a website, think what all the website can offer and to whom, check the pros and cons of each of these offerings.
  4. Plan and design a attractive yet informative home page of your website. Then go for individual modules for your website. The home page is generally named as Index, Home and Default Page.
  5. Check the latest ongoing trends by studying some popular sites in the subject.
  6. Think of simple to load but attractive design, avoid flash overdoing as it becomes time consuming for the website user.
  7. Website design layout and colors should relate to the content. Font size, color and text formatting should be easily readable for any user. Effective use of HTML header, strong and bold tags.
  8. Distribute the content in to subparts (web pages) which act as various topics for your website.
  9. Plan a sitemap with sparing a scope for expansion of existing topic or addition of new topic.
  10. Arrange the content for each topic and its individual pages. Arrange for some original photographs and design your own images. If possible keep a single folder for all your images.
  11. Get the content well written from a web copywriting expert.
  12. If possible, get a help of a search engine optimizer (SEO) for making content effective for higher search engine rankings.
  13. With the individual web pages ready for launch, link them respectively and generate a simple to use navigation (preferably text navigation)
  14. The navigation links should be intact throughout the website, providing a good web usability.
  15. Test your website locally. For dynamic website you need to have a local web server for testing. Browse through the complete website to avoid any broken links.
  16. Its really necessary to have a user interactive form/chat/forum/comments section on your website. Adding any and all of this, will not only help you provide a better customer satisfaction but also help you in orienting your website for your real audience.
  17. Upload all you files and related folders to your web space. The domain name is pointed to this web space. Thus whenever a user enters your website name in browser it takes him to the home page within all your web pages. Initially for a day or two, try some in-house testing by colleagues, family members and friends.
  18. Announce your website through various offline and online medias. Try submitting your live site to popular web directories and search engines.
  19. Populate your website through various online forums and blogs with your comments on relative subjects and Topics. Avoid spamming through comments. The links to your website from other websites matter a lot, when it comes to search engine rankings. It’s just about gaining the popularity on the net, but in the right way!

   

  With all these done your site is up and rolling, now you can expect visitors for your website. Tracking these visitors through advance web analytics services will help you study you audience and their needs. Keep studying the analytics and enhance your website accordingly to get the best of it.

   

  This article, I hope will not only help you in clearing your basic concepts about how to make a website, but also on how to enhance it for better performance and have more visitors for your website.

   

   

   

 

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