Build Your Own Website And Keep In Touch!
If your family and friends are located throughout the nation or even the globe, you might experience difficulty in staying connected. Most likely you'd like to give them your current news, however that presents a problem since everyone is so preoccupied lately, prices of stamps and telephone calls are rising, and it's time-consuming trying to e-mail everyone individually. So to facilitate things, it might be a good time to "build your own website".
Making a web site is not difficult, nor is it expensive or even time consuming. When you are in the early stages of planning the site it may take some time, but once you have done that updates can be made simply and easily when the site is up and running.
The first step is to select a host for your site. There are many available options, including Internet service providers. If there is one that you are currently using, check with them to see if they offer space for web site publishing to their customers. There are also many companies that offer free web-hosting and can be found quickly and easily just by doing an Internet search. Alternately, for a relatively small cost, you can buy a domain of your own and arrange for it to be hosted for a small monthly charge.
After that you have to decide what content to put on your website. The next step of building your own website is to write down your ideas or make a plan so that you can have a better idea of where to locate your things. It is better to be more systematic so it will be easier for you to update your website in the future and for your friends and family to find the information.
Prior to getting started on your project to build your own website, choose the colors that you plan to use and come up with a navigation plan. One of the most important aspects of any successful website is ease of navigation. Once you have settled these important matters, it will not take long to build your own website.
Many online hosting services have free tools available, and these can be extremely helpful if this is the first site you are creating. There are often templates available which make it easy for even someone with no experience to put together their own page or website. You could also try using one of the numerous WYSIWYG web page editors. These available programs will let you put together a web site with no knowledge of HTML at all, and will even show you step by step as you create your page how it will look to others on the web.
When your friends and family live far away, a great way of keeping them updated is to build your own website. You will first need to choose a host, which might be your Internet service provider or another company which provides web hosting services for little or no cost. Next, you should decide what information to include and how to organize it into a cohesive site that is easy to maintain. Select a fairly simple navigational scheme and choose a few harmonious colors to work with. If you have not designed a website before, there are templates and editors available that make this daunting task much easier.
Published July 17th, 2008
Filed in Home Business, Internet