How to build a simple webpage in 30 minutes
You’re here because you want to build a website, right?
I’m a web designer, and if you were to hire me, I would charge you anywhere between $1,000 and $3,000 to build a web site, but this article is about how to make a website for far less.
Why would I tell you how you can make websites for less?
If you’re like the vast majority of people who are thinking of building a website, you don’t have a big budget. That alone disqualifies you as a prospect of mine. But a small budget can still buy you a good web site provided you throw other ingredients into the mix as well. Let’s look at all the options together.
There are several ways to make a website, but all of them cost either time or money or both. Don’t worry though; there are ways to find the proper balance between them so keep reading.
You can either hire a professional designer to create a site for you or build the site on your own and never depend on other people for making websites.
Professional web site design services are outrageously expensive these days. There are, however, cheaper designers out there, but the quality of their work is questionable at best. You can avoid paying a fortune to make a website if you are willing to give it a try yourself. It may seem complicated at first, but it really isn’t.
Here are the easy tips to get you started.
Take the quick and easy route
Use a builder to create a web site from scratch.
Now, as a professional designer myself, I wouldn’t touch a site builder with a barge, but then again, not all site builders are the same. It took me years to learn all I know about building websites, but you may not have that luxury. For someone just starting out, getting all the help you can get is very important. So what you need are online website builders. You can have your hands on them easily.
There are several types of website builders:
Online Website Builders
There are tens of thousands of online site builders out there and all come packed with various features. Some of the ones I’ve come across are all-in-one web site builders that give you hosting, a domain name, and every other tool under the sun.
But there are lots of things you will notice if you try to compare most of them.
You can’t complain about free website builders because they’re free, but some of the commercial site makers I’ve seen would make you cringe.
They are complicated to use, redundant, most are not built to give a website a fighting chance, and are ultimately useless. Learning how to make a website with such a builder is frankly frustrating and not worth the trouble.
There are many commercial website makers out there that are half-way decent. But first, let’s look at why you would pay for a builder to make a website.
If you need to create a simple website for your family and friends, then I suggest you look at free options such as creating a blog. However, if you plan to sell your products online or attract people to a web site about something you feel passionate about and make it wildly popular, then it’s important to look at a website builder that can really help you achieve your goals.
There are only a handful of online website builders out there created by people who understand the universal truth about making a website successful, popular, or profitable. The other site makers just build websites that take up space.
Try to use software that easily creates websites in just a few minutes. In Macromedia Dreamweaver and Microsoft Frontpage, tools to create websites are already available. All you need is to drag and drop and your webpage is done.
Period. You don’t really want to make a website that’s forgotten about as quickly as it was made.
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