10 Easy Ways to Build Your Website From Scratch

Until a few years ago, many of us would’ve thought that maintaining a web-page needed the help from a tech geek, let alone creating a whole web site. However, times have changed now and like many things that you can do on your own in this era, website creation, designing and maintaining has become a job that any of us is capable of carrying out. Seeking the help of a tech geek has now become a thing of the past and for some of you, who are sceptical about your capabilities of creating a whole website, we have brought a few steps and tricks that would help you get through.

Web Page Vs. Website

First, you might wonder how a web page is different from a website. A web page is a hypertext document that is displayed on screen and consists of information about your business or work profile or whatever you intend it to be. These web pages are independently, each connected to the World Wide Web. However, a website is a collection of the earlier mentioned web pages, all together under one single domain. It may contain anything that you add within it, including multimedia, text, hyperlinks, etc.

Things to remember while creating a Website

Before your over confidence drives you into creating a website on your own without any precautions, leading to a whole pile up, you need to understand a few things about creating and maintaining a website on your own, without the help of a tech geek.

1. Initial precaution:

Though the introduction that was just given might drive you into a new found confidence, you must understand that creating a website is still not an easy task. Though it isn’t as challenging as it used to be, you still need to be precautions.

2. No code creators:

When we say create a website “on your own,” most of you might wonder what in the world would you do without knowing how to write a code. No need to worry, even if you are not familiar with coding, you can still access the help of many established online website creating applications that provides you with various options, designs and styles and makes the task as smooth as possible, for you.

3. Free utility:

Though creating a website has become much easier than it was a few years ago, maintaining the same website hasn’t gotten any short routes. It constantly needs to be updated and you need to be on track. If the website is for your business, any major changes you have taken place, it should reflect the effects in your website. Meaning, the commitment towards maintaining a website should be absolutely equal to that which went into creating one.

Steps to build your website

If you are absolutely sure of all these prerequisites, then you can proceed and follow the below given steps that will eventually lead you up to your fully functional website.

1.  Creative domain name:

Like every newborn child that gets a name in this world, you creation, that is your website, needs its identity, a name. Preferably a name that is close to or relate to your field of business so that the user can quickly connect. However, it is also suggested that you play around with your ideas and words, before settling on one.

Note- a domain name should be kept as simple as possible so as to help the users recall it easily.

2. Email to approach:

Any website should have the details of the creator or the person who maintains it, for the people to get access to them, easier. Thus, it is better to create a work email id or an official email id through which users can get through to you.

3. Hospitable web-host:

A web host is basically something that will let you connect your website to the internet and let the whole world view it. It has many computers connected to the internet to which you need to connect your website/web pages to, thus letting the world get a view of it.

4. Galore of web pages:

Like we mentioned earlier, a website is nothing but a compilation of a number of web pages under one single domain. Hence, before you create your own website, you need to be ready with how many ever fully designed web pages that you deem necessary, for your area of purpose.

5. Content is key:

After everything that is mentioned above is set and your web pages are created, you need to ensure that you have the necessary content to fill the web pages. It needs to be filled with information about your website, your field of business, etc. You must also keep in mind, the most important factor of Search Engine Optimization. You need to insert words and phrases into the content, which will help you increase the visibility of your website on the search engine and ultimately resulting in increased visitors for your website.

6. Testing is a must:

The only way to make sure if your website clicks with the audience and if it works the way you want it to work, is to actually take a trial run within major browsers like Google, Yahoo etc. Though you are required to put your website out there for usage even as you finish building it, it is the only available way through which you can make sure your work does make an impact.

7. Promote your website:

It is not enough if you create a website and have a test run, you also need to make sure that you promote it well enough that it reaches the maximum number of people. You need to make sure that through different means, your website pulls in people. You can do this by submitting your sites to the most popular search engines. However, you can also rely on more traditional methods like, advertisements on newspapers, on magazines or through word of mouth. You can also provide website links on other websites. That way, the visitors of that page, notices your link and probably manages to visit it, increasing the visitors for your site.

Website building and maintenance can get a bit hectic than you would expect. However, if done right and if it actually clicks within the audience, websites can help you reach different levels of business. We hope that this guide helps you to kick start your website!