Today we are going to start another series of how to class. In this tutorial we will learn how to create a website easily without any coding and development knowledge. As you all know website can be designed and developed from many languages, HTML to PHP to Dot Net to Java. In this tutorial we will cover the basic website designing and development using content management systems and website builders provided by web hosting companies. In next articles we will learn this art as a web developer.
As our Blog is an SEO blog so we will share some basic and important on page SEO factors, which will help you in creating an SEO friendly website. Website designing and development field is growing and changing rapidly. Before I start with basic web designing step by step, I will explain you how to create a website easily using CMS and website builders. If you are willing to learn and design a website on your own then learn the website development chapters listed on w3school. Read HTML4, HTMl5, CSS, JavaScript and PHP tutorial listed here and become a web developer.
If you are small business owner and you don’t have any knowledge of web designing and development. And also you are not willing to learn and implement web development skills on your website. Don’t worry now you can easily design a website using a website builder or CMS software. You just need to make website plan first. Plan your website theme, architecture, objectives, context, layout and content. Then choose from one of the hosting providers that suits to your budget and objectives. Now days hosting providers provide easy CMS installation and free website builder services. But as you know web designing and development is an art, you need a better plan for this.
You should have a domain for launching a website first so go for a domain registration. Find one of the domain registration website and book a domain for your business or personal use. Then you will be required a web hosting company to host your website and make it live, so that anyone can access it on web. You have to change name server details for your domain as specified by hosting provider to make your website live and working.
If you have decided to create a website using website builder then before designing your website you should make a layout in Microsoft PPT. You should think about your website home page design and layout first. Your website home page is the first impression for your target audience. Just make your content, layout and images ready for placement in website builder panel.
Now login in your hosting control panel and access website builder. Different web hosting company provides different website builder software. Each website builder has different user interface, but it is very easy to create a simple website using the website builder. Some website builder provides drag and drop of panels. You just need to fill it with content, images and colours. But one thing will be common that each website builder will provide you an editor may be WYSIWYG editor or something else.
The main features of a small business website must have are as below.
1. Home page
2. About Us Page
3. Products/Services page
4. Contact us page
5. A Simple inquiry form
6. Images
7. Link to related web pages so that user can access all your website pages.
8. Website slider (It is good if you want an attractive website)
Web hosting provider also provides easy CMS installation service. So you can also build your website using one of the CMS (content management system). You can develop your website in WordPress, Drupal, Joomla and other known CMS in just one click. It is so easy and simple to create a website using one click installation service. If you are creating your website with one of the above CMS then you can also find suitable themes and templates. There are thousands of wordpress themes available you can choose one of the themes your website it is very easy to implement theme in your wordpress website.