Planning and designing an effective website is a tedious job especially if you are not a regular internet user. Creating websites for businesses require some understanding on computers, and little awareness on latest technical aspects, content and design to create effective influence on users.
Of course, the primary thing that is need to create a website is capital unless you are working with some free online tool to create one. No matter if you are designing it for fun or for professional purpose, there are some basic things that are required when you are creating a website.
Understand the Purpose
The foremost thing to do before deciding on the technical things is to understand the purpose of your website – whether it is for informational or business. If business is your aim, then try to estimate how much product or service data you are going to display on the web and how many visitors you are expecting on an average. Having a clear idea on these things will help you to decide on basic technical aspects.
Domain Name
Choosing the domain name relevant to your business is the first necessary thing to create a website. Domain name is the online identity with which the user will find your website on the web. There are options to buy your own domain from any domain registrars or get a free one offered by many different companies. You may have to be careful while choosing the domain name extensions like .com, .co.in, .org, .net etc as extensions are very specific to each entity – organization, commercial, educational, government etc.
Website Hosting
To make it live on the internet, every website requires hosting on some servers. There are many hosting providers out there who can take care of your website to make it available to the users online without any interruption. Once signed up for the hosting service, these companies will provide tools and interfaces to the website owners to upload and manage their website files easily on their web servers. If required the hosting services will also assist with database support for different application platforms. Generally providers offer windows and Linux based hosting services with different specifications for shared, dedicated, reseller, managed, cloud etc. It is the responsibility of the website owner to identify which type of hosting is appropriate for their application.
Website design and content
Before finalizing on the content for your web site, it is necessary to design the pages using standard Hyper Text Markup Language — HTML code which includes images, links, and basic content format.. Unless you have some prior knowledge in writing HTML code, it will not be possible to give professional look for your website. You will also find many free web development tools that can not only help you with creating the new pages but also edit the existing design. Once the designing of the web pages is done, you can move forward with creating and organizing compelling content as per your business needs.
Remember, there is no point in having a website if it is not shared with any user. Then comes the requirement for a good digital marketing company who can work wonders on your website, making it search engine friendly so that your brand will get promoted easily.