How to Make a Website: Creating and Building Pages

How to Make a Website: Building Your Business Website Pages

At this point, you should have done your initial planning, registered your domain name and signed up with a web host. Congrats!

And now, you are ready to learn the mechanics of how to make a website...

Here are the next steps and considerations in building your website pages:

1. Build Website Content - Writing Tips
2. Web Design – the look and feel of your website and design resources
3. Website editors – html and wysiwyg (what you see is what you get)
4. Publish your Website – ftp, host, browsers

You may choose to focus on the writing for your website before thinking about your website design or vice versa. The main thing is that you are happy with the end result...the overall look and feel of your website along with your website content.

Some questions to consider are:

· Does your content and site design fit together nicely to build your brand?
· Can you produce a simple/effective website design and graphics?
· Or should you look for a web designer to help?

You may choose to contract out the web design of your website if you are lacking in time or technical design skills. But generally, you are responsible for writing your website content. Even if you had the budget for a copywriter, nobody could write with more knowledge and passion for your business than you.

You will need a basic website editor to write, edit, and save your website pages. Many are free.

Even the fanciest designed website requires useful words/copy to make the business website successful. Before you begin writing, I recommend that you review our section on writing tips for your business website.

Then your final step in learning how to make a website is learning to publish your website pages to the Internet.

Publishing your website pages online (from your computer to your web host) is a relatively simple task that is typically done through your web host’s website.

But first things first...

Build website content painlessly with our writing tips.

Your next step is considering the look and feel of your business site -- your graphics, design and website page.

While thinking about how you will design the look and feel of your site, you should consider your unique website design options.

Next, you will need a website editing program. With our recommended free website editors, create your own website free.

Through your writing and editing process, you may need to brush up on some basic html to fix your do it yourself website pages.

Finally, you will learn how to make a website free with our publishing tips and recommended tools.

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