How to make a website Planning a website

Designing a website is easy if you know html but if you are not a IT geek you surely will look for some designer or technical expert to assist you design a website for you. Before you start designing your site, there are several things to think about. A little bit of planning before you create your pages will make your site easier to use and easier to expand in the future. This article will help you answer the key questions you should ask yourself when planning a Web site for your small or medium business.


How do I figure out what I want?
An easy way to answer this question is to look at other business Web sites — both in your specific industry and in your business category, such as retail sales, manufacturing, or services. As you view these sites, ask yourself:    

• What do I like about this Web site? What do I dislike about it?
• Does the page hierarchy (also called navigation) make sense?
• What information can I link to from the Home page? How is the information organized?
• Do the categories and subcategories of information make sense?
• How are the pages laid out? Are they using one or more columns?
• Is the page easy to read? How does the page use headings, lists, and links?
• How much information is on each page? Is finding information easy? Is the information complete?
• Would a page like this be useful on my site? If yes, what would I do differently?

Static vs Dynamic websites
Static websites are websites which hardly change their content on a daily basis, once made they donot change, if you wish to make any changes on the website you need to edit the code directly. These sites are generally pure html sites. To design a static website it is recommended that you try some softwares available on the internet or templates freely floating across the net. This will help you reduce the complexity of learning coding.
Dynamic websites on the other hand are websites which are designed on a server side coding language for example php asp.net ruby or rails etc. Dynamic sites allow you to change the content instantly without you requiring to edit the code. But creating a dynamic website requires you to know either a server end language or ability to known some basics of html.
If you wish to make a dynamic website try the already available content management systems on the internet cms like Jooomla, Drupal, Wordpress are free to try. Follow the installation guides given on each site to setup a site in a cms.

Cost of setting up a website
Generally the cost of setting up a website starts with domain registrations, there are many companies which register a domain name. First goto iwhois.com and search for available domains like myname.com once you have selected the domain you wish to register just goto either godaddy.com yahoo small business or dynadot.com to get your website registered you will need a credit card to proceed with this step. It usually costs about 8- 10$ for registration of domain name.
After that you need to get a web host (the space needed to host or keep your websites pages) some of the popular web hosting sites on the internet are godaddy.com hostgator.com depending on whether your website is php based or uses a asp.net code you should buy a hosting space on either linux or windows. Windows hostings are usually expensive compared to Linux hostings. It can cost you upto 120$ to buy hosting space.

Transfer data on server and start a website
Once you bought a hosting space and domain name you will need to set up the dns settings inside your registration site. Those details can be found on the manuals available on individual websites. These are usually server names provided by your hosting company.

After this step transfer your files to the host space through ftp or the control panel provided to you.
Once you have done this just open your website and you are done.

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