This a post for all those who want to create a website or a blog in the internet that looks like this. Ofcourse, every one wishes to have their own website or blog in internet if its free and simple to create. If you still feel that you don’t need one skip reading this article.
This post concentrates on just basic steps of creating a website and how you can start of in creating website and please contact if you have any doubts in creating your webiste , Lets begin the post with difference between a blog and website .
Difference between a blog and website
- A blog is a part of website or itself is a type of website and is updated regulary with new information in the form of posts. It not only allows you to publish your opinions but also can gather the opinions of your visitors and provides an interactive environment between you and your visitors.
- A website is collection of pages that you wanted to show to your visitors. A website is preferred when you just want to show information regarding you or your company and does not conatin any regular updates from you to your visitors.
There is not much difference other than above mentioned points between a blog and website. If you wish to have both then you can provide a website that also contains a blog. Let’s put blog topic aside and lets focus on how to create a website and later at the end of the post let’s discuss about how to create a blog.
Some of the typical tasks involved in creating a website are
- Choosing a Web content management system
- Creating Layout and Design for your website
- Finalizing Stand alone website with structured content
- Selecting a name for your website
- Selecting a hosting service provider
Choosing a Web Content Management System
In General , Though you design your own layout and template it is not that easy to maintain content in your website so people opt for advanced content management software like
- WordPress,
- Drupal,
- Zoomla ,
- PHP Nuke, etc..,
and using that softwares is easy to create the above mentioned Layout and Design and there are many resons why people should opt for such content management software like
- It’s a Community where you can get instant help
- Continous Development is done according to the newest trends
- Easy to Use , etc..,
The above mentioned CMS softwares are just the popular among CMS which uses PHP and most of all hosting service providers offer this CMS integrated to your hosting account . At present (2011) the percentage of sites hosted using wordpress constitutes half of the total websites hosted so that you can estimate the importance and popularity of wordpress.
If you still feel like creating your own pages then these are the things that you should do click here to proceed.
Selecting a name for your website
If you are building a website which contains personal or professional information where getting visitors to your website is not a motive behind then you can select a website name based on your organisation name or your personal name but Selecting an appropriate domain name that consists important keywords of your website can bring 40% of traffic from search engines. So , most of us consider having a relevant domain name is also one of the crucial factors of success.
Selecting a correct hosting provider is very important , If you chose a wrong hosting provider it may ruin your site reputation . Hosting plays an important role in getting search engine traffic so , I would suggest you to chose a good hosting service provider like Hostgator , Godaddy , etc..,
Once you are done buying hosting and domain , You have to link them . It is very simple task where you have to modify dns records of your domain , All you have to do is get the Canonical Server Name of your hosting provider and create an “CNAME” record in your domain dns records , There are several other ways to make a domain name to point to your server and help is always available from merchants where you bought them and if you still face any problem post it in comments section I will help you to solve your problem.
Hope you learned how to create a website and liked the article .
