Your Own Website Today

A guide that helps you design and manage your own website. From choosing a web designer, to buying your domain name, to selecting a web hosting

This website explains web page design, development, and promotion.

Make Your Own Website Today

Build Your Own Web Site the Right Way

Make Your Own Web Page, Start Your Own Online Business or Put Your Existing Business Online Today, We'll Show You How to Do it With Free Resources!

Since you are reading this website I assume you need a website. No matter what your reason for needing a website I know how difficult and confusing it can be to figure out how to do it without losing your shirt in or puling out your hair in frustration.

When I tried to learn how to build my own website, I found all of the information out there so confusing. I wanted desperately to find a simple step by step guide that would take me through the paces to get my website online quickly and painlessly.

This is HTML below ... If you are a web designer this stuff makes sense. But for others like me it looks like German ... my eyes would glaze over at the thought of having to do anything with it. All I wanted was a simple way to create a website without touching any HTML.

I thought others might like the same help so I created this guide to show others how they too can create a website EASILY and it will look very professional. Your friends and neighbors will be impressed with your new website.

Buy Your Website Now and get the web address of your choice - before somebody else does!

you’ll build web sites that:

• Look good on Windows, Mac and Linux computers
• Will function correctly whether your visitors are using Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera or Safari
• Are easy to update and maintain
• Are accessible to disabled users who use screen readers to view your web site
• Find out where to find all the free tools necessary to build your site
• Become an HTML web design guru
• See how easy it is to style your web pages with CSS
• Learn how to create and convert images for use on web sites
• Get some excellent advice on laying out your page
• Discover how and when to use tables on your pages
• Build a complete, functional web site that you can customize for your own use
• Let your visitors interact with your site using form elements
• Find the best web host for your site and get your site online
• Learn how to add a blog to your site and keep it updated
• Understand who’s visiting your web site using web site statistics
• Let users search your site to find what they're looking for

So, you want to build a website! Well, you've come to the right place. This site explains in very simple terms how to design, build and publish a website. If you haven't done it before, Internet publishing can appear rather daunting. In fact, it is not difficult at all.

There is very little you require to build a website and everything you need is available free on the Internet. In other words, you don't need to spend huge sums of money purchasing expensive software packages, programming manuals or web server space.  You just need to know where to start. 

Here is a list of what you do need:

• basic computer skills

• access to a personal computer

• access to the Internet

• a free HTML Editor (a web page construction tool)

• a place on the world wide web to publish your page

There are eight steps involved in publishing a page.  They are:

• define your objectives

• design your web pages

• download an HTML editor from the web

• construct your site

• find a web server where your site can be published

• copy your pages to the web server

• promote your website

• track your hits and fine tune

There are many good reasons for building a web page but it is important that your goals are clear. Your objectives should drive the content and the design. Many people build home pages as a hobby, purely for their own personal development. Others build them to promote business, social, cultural, humanitarian, or business objectives.

Knowledge of web page development can help you in your career. Many businesses today have their own corporate Intranet sites, which are simply internal Internet systems used to share corporate information. The ability to communicate electronically is a valuable skill to employers.

Once  you know exactly what you intend to publish and who the targeted audience will be, the next step is to determine the mood of your website. Should the ambience be informal, professional or high tech? Will you use graphics, animation or music? How will the text be structured and which fonts will be used?  How will visitors navigate through your site?   Whatever you decide, try to maintain the same theme and conventions throughout your site.

The most important part of your website is the textual content. What you write should add value and make the visitor want to return. Review your web page objectives and your target audience and make your message suit that audience. Don't forget to check your spelling and grammar before publishing your pages. There are a few tricks to keep in mind regarding word repetition, use of headers and titles but these will be discussed later. At this point, focus on content!

Publishing on the net is different from writing for a newspaper in that you are able to take advantage of multimedia capabilities. Photos, graphics, music and video can make your site interesting.  Be careful, however, not to overdo it.  Graphics, for example are often large files that take time to download. Most people won't wait more than five seconds for a web page to load. 

There are great opportunities to earn  money by establishing and growing your own website.  You might think that you have missed the boat by not having built a commercial site years ago.  In historical terms, however, the Internet is still in its infancy and its projected growth is mind boggling.   Only ten years ago, most Americans didn't dream that they would be sending e-mails across the state, chatting with relatives across the country or watching TV broadcasts from across the ocean.  Yet today, this has become the norm for many people.

We are at the dawn of a technological revolution that will have an unimaginable impact on the economic, social and political fabric of this planet. Every generation is presented with challenges and opportunities - the Internet is ours.  

In the following pages, we will discuss how you can use your existing web development skills and learn some additional tricks to help you establish and grow a commercially viable website.   Web publishing, e-business and electronic commerce will be explored.  By making a decision and commitment today, you can sow the seeds of a promising Internet business and ride the wave of technological change into the new frontier.