Building a successful website without our
recommended
website builder can be done, although it is a time consuming process.
The steps:
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Think of a great topic
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Buy a domain name
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Purchase hosting
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Build a site from scratch
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Optimize the site for the search
engines
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Submit the site to the search engines
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Build traffic to the site
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Set-up a payment system if needed
Still, it can be accomplished and taking
this route is how many webmasters on a budget get started.
The Idea, The Domain Name and the
Hosting
First, you need to figure out what you
want your site to be about. Cooking? Fishing? Home
decorating? This will be your website's theme. Next you need
to think of a name for your website and buy that name, which will be
your domain name (www.mysite.com). Then you will need a place to
host your website so all the world will be able to see it when they type
in your domain name. This is the award-winning website
host 
we use. They have excellent customer support, free domain
registration, plans from $3.95 per month and more than 80,000 happy
customers. If you are just seeking domain registration, the world's
largest registrar
,
offers domains for less than $10 per year.
Building Your Website
There are hundreds of website building
software packages, but most webmasters use one of three or four.
We recommend the first two below because they are designed with beginner publishers in mind and let you
design a simple website quickly and without having to understand any
html code. You can build an unlimited number of sites with
either of these website software packages, and you do not need to pay
any kind of monthly fee for them. The second two listed below,
Dreamweaver and Frontpage, are for more advanced users.
1) This
website software 
is popular because it is a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get)
software, provides templates and requires no coding knowledge. It
is easier to use than some other, more expensive software packages and lets you build a professional
webpage quickly.
2) This
software lets you build nearly any kind of site you want, and it is fairly easy to
master in a short amount of time. It has a detailed tutorial to
get you online quickly and is designed for those who want to build sites
in a short period of time.
3) Frontpage is also a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) website builder,
but this one takes some practice to master. It would be easier to
start with either this
software or this
one.
4) Dreamweaver is another popular, and
powerful, website
building software, but it has a steeper learning curve than Frontpage.
We would only recommend it to someone who is very interested in learning
the detailed ins and outs of professional website design.
Again, we recommend either this
software or this
one for
people just starting out.
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