Often, you will have been told that to make a site you have to spend money, otherwise, you will have to settle for a poor quality website. Anyway, this is not true and by reading this article you will understand how to create a professional looking website … for free!
Steps
Step 1. Plan
Before registering for an account with a hosting service, you will need to decide roughly the nature of your website. Do your research, find some graphic material and write some texts before setting out to create the actual site. Make sure that nothing in the material you have collected is copyrighted.
Step 2. Use Google or another search engine to find free website hosting services and compare the various offers
Remember that being a free service, your site may contain advertising.
- Keep in mind that someday you may want to take your site to the next level. If that's your intentions, look for a service that offers domain upgrading and purchasing opportunities.
- Some sites also offer various tools to help the less experienced in creating the site. Some services offer levels, from which to start, and then return and improve the site when the user has become more experienced.
Step 3. Choose a free hosting service
Create a username and password and write them down. You would not be able to believe how many people forget their access data within one hour of registration.
Step 4. Use Google or other search engines to find graphics and audio that are adaptable to your site - don't forget to ask permission or offer to exchange links to the authors of the material
The exchange of links is nothing more than a clickable banner of the site from which you took the material that is positioned on your site in order to advertise to those who have kindly granted us the material.
Step 5. Find a WYSIWYG editor
This acronym stands for What You See Is What You Get and are great tools to get started with creating your own website.
Step 6. Consider the idea of using templates
Using templates for websites allows you to quickly use pre-made designs, to which you simply have to replace the text. Make sure the layout is simple enough, as more sophisticated layouts may be more complicated for a beginner to use. Some template galleries can be found on css4free.com and oswd.org.
Advice
- There is a great free and open source software called Nvu (pronounced N-View). Nvu provides many advanced features while remaining simple to use. While it's free, it's great software for all user levels. Download your copy from www.nvu.com
- A good site to start with would be Open Source Web Design, at oswd.org. This site offers a huge collection of free website templates.
- If you have an idea for your site (even a trivial one), create it and put it online. He can always help someone.
- When looking for a web hosting service, it's always a good idea to take a look at any promotional offers / coupon codes you can use to save money.
- Google and Yahoo offer good services, but they require a smattering of HTML.
- Remember to read the site's rules regarding posting materials (especially if copyrighted or adult material).
- Spend some time on your site - customize it to the maximum to reflect your person.
- If you find it difficult to find items to put on your navigation bar, you might want to take a look at wikiHow!
Warnings
- Choose one idea and discard others, you can't do everything!
- Be careful.
