There are several reasons why people want to create a website, but most of those looking to do so fall into one of three categories below:
- Create an informational hobby or family website.
- Create a website as a profitable online business.
- Corporations looking to create a successful e-commerce website.
Because I wrote this article to help the ordinary person who wants a website, I won’t even talk about corporate websites. Those types of sites should be left to the high-priced web designers that abound on the internet.
If you need to create a simple website in order to connect with your family and friends, there are numerous free options that will perfectly suit your needs. You will need a hosting account to host your website and most web servers offer free website builders as part of the hosting package. You should be able to find a template in your library that is sure to please you.
To update your website, you will need some knowledge of the html language. This is the case with all the free website builders that I have seen. You can get free basic help with the html language from various sites on the Internet. These sites most likely provide you with enough guidance to allow you to update this type of website.
In the case of this type of site, I highly recommend that you investigate social networks such as Facebook, My Space or others. They are completely free and will meet your needs well.
However, if you plan to create a website and sell various products online, you are talking about a different animal. Now, you have probably seen several sites on the Internet that offer you a method to create websites starting at $ 5 per month. The catchy words in this phrase are “From“.
Most of these sites, if not all, will attract you with a small starting price and immediately start offering several small updates. Before you know it, you will be paying $ 15 per month, but you will think it is worth paying more to get the premium service. While premium service may just be the key for some novice users, this won’t be the case for most first-time website owners. There are factors involved in promoting and maintaining a website that you will need to know about and these sites will do little or nothing to help you with this.
The first thing you need before creating a website is a niche that you can monetize and that you have enough interested search engines that you can sell to. Without any of these, your website will just be a waste of time and money.
Websites should also be designed for search engine optimization (SEO), as well as being attractive and useful to your visitors. Search engines send targeted traffic to your site, so you need to appease them. Make sure that whatever web design offering you choose will provide you with basic SEO features. Professional SEO firms can cost up to $ 2,500 per year.
Now if you are like the vast majority of people who are thinking of creating a website, you don’t have a huge budget to work with. Professional website design services are outrageously expensive. So let’s see what you can do to create a website that fits a small budget and allows you to update and promote the site without being a programming language guru.
- There are some affordable freelance designers who do good quality work at a price that will be very nice on a small budget. If your budget is small (around $ 200-300), you can get a nice design with the help of website hosting and promotion.
- You could buy a web design program for around $ 200 that will allow you to create as many websites as you want. Most of these programs are WYSIWYG programs (what you see is what you get), which means that you actually see the design while you are building it and the necessary programming is done automatically as you build the site.
- You can create a site through drag and drop site builders, but the fees for these services will turn out to be your worst nightmare and you will take the bag when it comes to promoting your website.
A work from home or small business will take time and money to develop. There is no free website, product or service. Today, the word FREE spreads freely on the Internet and on television. It has become a method for advertisers to capture the attention of their viewers. Unfortunately, it works at an alarming rate and poor and innocent people are the victims of this false advertising.
My advice would be that; If you don’t plan on investing some money to start your business and time to promote it, don’t even think about starting one. You will only waste your time and money on any of the fool deals.
