If you wish to make your site both more interesting and more effective, it is important to know several things before you start building your website. Remember: although it is your website, you must tailor your website navigation and content to your visiting audience in order to attract and retain them. Keep this in mind, you can create an interesting and welcoming web environment without too much work for your visitors or for yourself.

There are several free options when you are trying to learn how to make a website. Not only are their countless online tutorials on how to make a website but you can also find rows of books at your local library on this topic. No matter where you decide to get your information make sure you stay focused on the most critical part of your site which is the content and not all of the extras that can be thrown in after the fact.

Only knowing how to make a website isn’t enough. You must next define a purpose for your site. Perhaps the goal is to share personal information and pictures? Or maybe it will serve as a space to tell others of your interests and hobbies or professional ventures. Either way, organize! Group together ideas, pictures, and content so that your site will be easy to view and use.

Your next step will be to find a place to host your website. You may already have some web space through your Internet provider, or you can sign up with a separate hosting service. Some are free, others require a monthly subscription fee. Many come with tools that will help you learn how to build a website of your own.

Now that you have completed these important steps, now it is time to get it put together. As with previous steps, there are a variety of options at this point. You can learn the coding for HTML and CSS on your own, which is not easy, but can be fun if you are interested in doing so. A simpler way to go about it is through the use of a WYSIWYG editor, which means What You See Is What You Get. This is a visually based page editing system, as opposed to learning the HTML code yourself.

A third possibility is the use of tools that your hosting company provides to you. These tools often include such things as website templates, colors, and styles, as well as clip art that can be used to make changes on your site with one click. For many people this is the way that they create their first site, afterwards moving on to WYSIWYG editors, eventually coming to the point of using both a WYSIWYG editor and their own knowledge of HTML code.

When learning to create a website, always keep in mind the importance of content. Adding graphics, photos, and other items to the website can draw interest, but using too many can distract viewers from the content. Utilize extras with caution, as not to distract site guests from site’s information. Too many graphics will also cause slow loading times and can cause frustration from your visitors.

If you wish to make your site both more interesting and more effective, it is important to know several things before you start building your web site. Keep this in mind, you can create an interesting and welcoming web environment without too much work for your visitors or for yourself. There are various resources available to help you learn how to make a website, and many of them can be found for free. Numerous books, available at your public library, have been written on the subject, and there are an uncountable number of online tutorials on how to build a website.

– Tem Balanco