How to create a website yourself

There comes a time when the average Internet user wonders about creating a website. There are quite a lot of reasons for this decision. Starting from ordinary interest to a commercial goal. But it’s not always possible to create a unique website with your own hands, which will have no analogues. Especially if you are new to this business. In this case, you have to turn to professional designers and layout designers. But professionals charge quite a high fee for their work, which not everyone can afford. In this article, we will try to analyze all the most important steps when creating a website from scratch.

The main goal of this article is to familiarize you with the main steps that you need to go through before you start creating your website using your own efforts. Therefore, take a few minutes of your attention to read this small manual to the very end. Naturally, you may have a lot of questions, the answers to which you cannot find in this article. Eg; how to connect telephony? To do this, you need to implement amocrm on your website.
Step one. Choosing a theme for your website

This stage is the main one before creating your project. After all, future traffic, popularity and, of course, the profitability of the project (if you plan to make money on your website in the future) depend on the topic and your ability to reveal it. You should not create on a topic that you do not understand at all. In this case, you will have to hire a professional copywriter who can uniquely and, most importantly, interestingly reveal the topic of your site.

This question is quite painful for novice webmasters. Before choosing a topic, you should decide on some questions, or more precisely - “Why do you need a website?”, “What needs do you want to satisfy?”, “Do you want to create a commercial project that will bring you stable money, or are you not interested in the question of making money?”

In any case, no matter what goals you are pursuing, first of all you are creating a website for people, with the hope that crowds of users interested in your topic will come to your project. Do not forget that the topic of the future project should be of interest not only to you, but also to future visitors.

Now you have to collect all your knowledge and write down which topics you are a professional in, or are simply well versed in. Almost any topic can become the basis for a future project. Whether it is ordinary, informational, or commercial.
Many people already know that visitors access any website, blog or other project through search engines (Google, and others). People find this or that site based on key queries. That is, if you have written a list of topics that you want to share with other people through your website, then you should check their relevance. This can be done using a search engine, for example, Yandex. Go to this link http://wordstat.yandex.ru/. Next, enter a key query that is related to your topic. Eg, "domestic hedgehogs" or "raising domestic hedgehogs".



As you can see from the screenshot, this topic is not very popular, so you shouldn’t hope for crowds of visitors who will come to your site.
Now let's take a more popular topic. For example, you are well versed in the construction of houses, you work in this industry, and more than a dozen houses have already been built under your belt. Enter this search query.



As we can see, the number of requests for the keyword "construction of houses" significantly exceeds the request for “domestic hedgehogs”.
In general, as you may have noticed, the topic of the future project is quite important, so you shouldn’t rush and quickly create websites, as long as they exist. You need to decide well on the topic, and then start developing the future project.

Step two. Choosing a domain name for a project

You have already decided on the topic of the future project, then you should think about a domain name for the site. You should think about your future domain name and its registration in advance for several reasons:

•You will have the opportunity to reserve your unique domain. Ideally, the domain should show the name of the project and be its Latin version. It is also possible that after you have given a name to your site, its Latin version is already taken. That’s right, because time goes by and there are fewer and fewer euphonious domain names.

•The name of the future project and its domain are the most important components of the site design, which people will pay the most attention to on their first visit. Therefore, you need to decide on this even before starting work on the design and development of the project.

Once you select a domain name, you should register it immediately. Otherwise, there are a number of users who specialize in reselling domains. Therefore, you can sit and think about a domain name all day, and then discover that it has already been taken. These users are quite fast, so every minute matters.

Simply put, you shouldn’t yawn and waste money on a domain name. Otherwise, it can be intercepted in an instant, and subsequently you will need to give much more money for its purchase than before.

Step three. Choosing an engine for a future project

Previously, you determined the theme of the site. After which you selected and reserved a domain name for your website. Now all that remains is to choose an engine and start developing the site. There are several ways to do this:

•You can contact a professional who can write you a program code that displays the design and content of the site. But this method is not for you, because you came with a question - “How to create a website yourself?”.

•You should start reading textbooks on HTML, CSS, and PHP, and studying the Dreamweaver program. But studying all the necessary information will require a lot of time and effort. Simply put, you have to sit and study every program code for 24 hours a day.

•If you are not ready to sit with textbooks for a long time, there is another alternative way that does not require significant effort - use the program that manages the site CMS (Content Manager System). CMS literally translates as a content management system, in other words it is called the “engine” of the site.

Today there are many paid and free engines for creating a website. And they all have positive qualities as well as negative ones. In addition, they differ in performance.
List of popular CMS for creating a website:

•Ucoz;
•Wordpress;
•Joomla;
•Drupal;
•DLE (Data Life Engine);

In addition to the above CMS, there is also a fairly large number. Therefore, it is sometimes difficult for a beginner to choose the right engine for his website. After all, there are so many of them that choosing a specific one becomes a difficult task. Therefore, you should turn to experienced webmasters for help in choosing a CMS.

There are also paid and free engines. For beginners, it is advised to choose some free CMS in order to familiarize yourself with website development. And then, you can choose a paid engine, after which you can fully create your website.

Step four. Create a template for your project

To create a template, let's take, for example, the Joomla engine. This CMS is quite popular among all existing ones. It has such easy and convenient functionality that even a person who does not understand programming at all can fill the site with content.

But, creating the template itself requires certain knowledge, at least basic. First, you need to understand what a Joomla template is.
A Joomla template is a file set that is installed in a content management system. These files provide all the content to the user. The template itself is not a site yet, it is only the foundation on which the site design is based. A full-fledged website is the interaction of a template and content, which is located in the DB (database) of the Joomla engine.

We present to your attention a website template created using the Joomla engine. The template does not yet have content, but it already has a design style



And this is what it will look like after filling it. The template is designed in such a way that when adding content, it will inherit the style that is defined in the template itself. Cascading CSS style sheets are responsible for this design.



There is also the ability to change the template, and this is quite easy to do. After which you will be able to see a new template with new design rules and so on. And it is instantly applied to the site. The most important thing is that when changing the site template, its content does not change or disappear, everything remains as it was before.

Step five. Project usability

The wealth of any existing website is its unique and informative content. The attendance and profitability of any project depends on the provision of the necessary information.

Special textbooks have been created on this topic. But sometimes they frighten novice webmasters with their volume. But, in order to create a unique and convenient website, you do not need to study textbooks and so on. All you have to do is ask Internet users what irritates them most on different sites. Because an inconvenient website interface forces a user to leave a particular project, even if the information located there is necessary for him.

Simply put, we should remember that we create websites for people, so we should take care of the convenience and comfort of users.

After a long study of all irritating factors, several rules were created:

•Information that is presented to users must be clearly structured;

•Do not overload the site; post only information that relates to the topic of your project;

•Navigation should be done. It should reflect the information structuring of the site, be convenient, and easy to use. The navigation bar should be located in a prominent place on your site;

•Each page of the site must have a link to the main page;

•You should install navigation on the site, which is called "bread crumbs". It represents a certain path from the main page to the current page where the user is located;

•The same navigation system should be used on all existing pages of the site;

•It is imperative to develop a site map.

By adhering to the above rules, you can create a unique website that will amaze visitors with its convenience. And don’t forget that properly designed navigation is one of the main components of any website.

Step six. Internal project optimization

As you already know, the bulk of visitors will come from search engines. Therefore, you should seriously work on website optimization. Internal optimization – changing the characteristics of the project. This action is done with the aim of optimizing pages to attract search engines. In other words, you will make your website pages more attractive.

With http://wordstat.yandex.ru/ You can analyze key queries and then optimize the content for search engines. There are several ways to fully optimize your resource:

•In Yandex Wordstat, you can enter a key query, and then see what queries users use and with what frequency. Information is displayed monthly. Keep in mind that key queries must be relevant to the theme of the site;

•Ideas for keywords can be borrowed from online directories. To do this, type in the search engine "site directory". Then go to any of them, select the desired category. All categories in this section can serve as your key queries;

•You can spy on your competitors a little. In other words, you will be able to use someone else's work for your own benefit. Of course, to some this will seem like an unacceptable process, but why not do it for yourself and the promotion of your project;

•In addition, to search for keywords you can use one of the largest and most popular statistics of the entire Russian network, which is located on the site http://www.liveinternet.ru/. After clicking on this link, in the upper corner you will notice the “Site Rating” tab. Click there and select your topic. After which you are provided with all the information about traffic to sites on this topic.

That's all. You have received and compiled a list of the most popular keywords. But among all of them, you will need to cross out some. For example, if your topic is building houses, then queries like building houses on credit should be eliminated. After all, your site most likely does not provide house construction services on credit.

Step seven. Choosing hosting for the site

Your site is ready. Now all that remains is to find a suitable hosting for it. But, this process is not as easy as it seems. After choosing and installing hosting, you can already show your website to the World Wide Web.

Today there are quite a lot of different companies that provide hosting services. But choosing the right one is quite a difficult process for a beginner. Here we can highlight only one thing, but if you are completely serious about your project, then you should forget about free hosting.

Sometimes you have to work with many hosting sites, and the choice depends on chance. This hosting has all the necessary qualities for full use. Those. support responds quickly enough to questions submitted and quickly corrects problems that arise.

In general, the choice of hosting is entirely up to you. And no one has the right to persuade you to choose this or that hosting. Therefore, take this matter seriously. If, of course, you want in the future to be the owner of a popular project that brings you many potentially interested users every day.

Step eight. External optimization and portal promotion

Your project is ready, uploaded to hosting. But, if you think that hundreds of potential users of the World Wide Web will immediately run to your site, do not flatter yourself. Almost no one knows about it, except for you and your host provider, of course.

One of the most important things ahead of you is website promotion. This process requires quite a lot of time and effort.
In search of a true way to promote a website, you can wander around the World Wide Web for quite a long time. And such attempts do not always end in success. Sometimes you can even lose a considerable amount of money.

First you need to decide on all the inputs:

•You have developed a unique project for people and its attendance plays a rather significant role;

•In order for people to hear something about your project, you will have to launch an event dedicated to website promotion. But most of you don’t know how and what needs to be done for this. It would be more logical to turn to professionals for help, but their services cost a lot of money;

•You do not have a large amount of money available for quick and effective promotion, so you want to independently study various ways to promote your site. Simply put, nothing is impossible, it just takes time and patience.

Looking at the introductory information described above, you should focus your attention on free and shareware (these methods require small investments) methods of promotion.

If you want to attract potential visitors to your website as quickly as possible, you will have to directly contact users through social networks. In addition, you can get visitors using various forums, blogs and other thematic projects.

But you shouldn’t rely on this promotion method. After all, it requires a lot of time and effort, and sometimes the result does not live up to expectations.
Remember that your main efforts should be geared towards promotion through search engines. That's all, we were able to create a small manual on how to create a website with our own hands. In this article, of course, you will not be able to find answers to all the questions that concern you. After all, there is simply no point in describing every mistake that is made when creating a website. New questions arise every day, the answers to which cannot always be found. In general, I hope that the article will serve you for your personal benefit. Use the knowledge you have gained to create a website; I have written only the main recommendations that you should follow before you start developing your project.