As a digital marketer, the most frequent question I have been asked is, how do I host my own website and domain in order to start my small business marketing or a blog?
It is a digital era, we know how significant it is to have an online presence for individuals and business to reach your potential target customers through a website or an e-commerce platform.
So, if you are looking forward to starting a website, and you have a tenderfoot in this, here’s a complete guide on “how to create a website from home”, just for you!
“IT’S TIME TO TURN YOUR HOBBIES AND INTERESTS INTO BUSINESS.”
Accomplish your hobbies and interests into the business by creating a website with simple steps.
Having a website of your own has been a buzz now around the time. Let me tell you it’s not that big of a deal to host your website. You don’t have to look for someone who can do that for you.
Highlights:
Owning a website for free is a kickstart for your entrepreneurship career. Yes! Without even having a place to start a business, operate a website from any corner of the world and mint money with your skills. You can
- Sell ad space on your website
- Be an Affiliate marketer
- Create an e-commerce platform (sell products)
- Lead generation to other companies
So, why wait when the world is your platform and the internet is your roadway to reach the targeted potential customers.
This article, will help you learn from scratch on- “How to host your website?”
The important points you need to consider before you want to set up any website:
- Understand the purpose of your website (informational website, product based website, service-based website)
- Specify a name for your domain (you can purchase the determined domain name from -Godaddy, big rock etc)
- Understand the basics technical aspects of creating and ranking a website.
Know these basics before you start creating a website on your own,
What is web hosting?
When an individual/ organization intends to have a web presence, web hosting is the service that allows them to post a website on the internet with the special computers called servers.
Once, it has been hosted the users have to just type your domain and then the servers will deliver the respective web pages to the browsers.
The very first step in web hosting is to select a domain name and purchase your hosting plan.
What is a website
A website is a set of web pages, which are developed using the markup language and in addition, the CSS and JS are used for styling and functionality respectively on the website.
Types of website
There are two types of the website based on the content, functionality, and features needed on the website, they are named as,
Static Website:
A simple website mostly with very few web pages put up on the server manually without the use of any content management system. Static websites web pages have to be manually created or existing webpage HTML have to be manually copied every time whenever there is a need for webpage creation.
Websites on which the content doesn’t change with the upload or change of content on the website until the changes are manually done across is a static website.
Dynamic Website:
Dynamic websites are website usually with few tens, hundreds and thousands of web pages which are all built through content management system without the necessity of copying the HTML of the existing web pages.
Websites which have the content management platforms built and allows to add any number of web pages quickly without much hassle and the content on the web pages/website too changes with the content upload or change of content.
Building a website in a few simple steps, you can have your website ready in less than 10 minutes.
You don’t have to learn HTML, CSS or JS to build a website which all are used to build the front end of the website
You don’t have to master the programming language such as Java, Dot net, C++, PHP and more, there are few tens of programming language used to build the backends of the websites.
just for your knowledge explore the below topics before you quickly start with some ready-made work.
Before you start building a website on your own in few simple steps know the basics of how websites are built,
Don’t worry, the technology is been made so simple by the technology geeks and hence everything is readily available, you may have to just install a couple of applications and other related stuff which I will be taking you through.
Website Front end,
Website front end is the appearance of the website which is visible to you and is accessible by visiting the website address (URL/domain).
Bill Gates quote about online marketing
The website front-end appearance can be as simple and plain as your word document without any styling for which just an HTML is enough.
But we all know that many prefer websites to be colorful, need to have a proper alignment, a spacing between text and many more and that’s when the CSS is used to improve the appearance of your website.
The HTML and CSS together make the website beautiful and that is not enough when you need to have a functionally on the website, E.G: sign up on the website, pop up on the website or any other functionally, which will be built using JavaScript.
Website Backend:
Website backend is a platform built using a programming language in order to perform the set of actions which may or may not be visible in the front end.
The content published to the website is visible in the front end,
The features or functionalities those are built to upload content to the website are not visible, similarly if an automated email has to be sent to the user who signs up on website the backend functionality/program takes care of it, likewise there can be few tens of features build in order to make the website usable.
The backend also includes data based, which stores all your website information in rows and columns as you store data on excel sheets.
Hope you have some idea on how a website is been built, and there will be a ton of efforts from experts if a good looking and functional website have to be built.
But luckily you are in an era where everything is made simple, you don’t have to learn front-end development or backend and still, you will be able to create a beautiful and functional website for your business.
Wondering how to create a website in simple steps?
No worries, you can simply follow the below steps and build a website in less than 10 minutes.
Step1:
Remember you don’t need to learn the front end development (HTML, CSS, and JS), just follow the below steps,
Know what you want to do on a website, such as,
- Want to sell your products/services
- Want it to be just a catalog/profile of your products/services
- What kind of products or services are they, how should be the information displayed about those products and services?
- Need any other feature both on the front end and the backend,
Once you have enough clarity on the above you can just visit the portals which sell the front-end work, which usually will be called a theme.
Step 2:
Picking the Theme/Knowing how your front end should be:
There are few tens and hundreds of portals which are selling the designs needed for your business and many times it all will have all the features/appearance that you are looking for, and hence you can explore the themes here and pick the one you like,
Manjunath Chowdary
Digital Marketing Expert, consultant, Mentor and
Director of KandraDigital Marketing
Solutions Pvt Ltd.
Kandra Digital
