A website is the most valuable tool to your online marketing strategy.
Your personal/business website offers global reach. Convert users into customers. Traditional marketing is restricted by geography. Creating an international marketing campaign can be hard, expensive, as well as labor-intensive. A website allows your business information and details about your products and services to be accessed by anyone, no matter where they are on the planet or what time of day it is. The internet is online 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
How to create a website in 24 hours:
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Choose a Domain name
In order to have a website online, you’ll need a domain name. Choose a memorable domain name. Your domain name is what your visitors will type in to access your site. If you are having a hard time figuring out a domain name, you can always use domain name generators for ideas.
2. Contract a web host.
Web hosting companies rent out their servers to store your website information and provide Internet connectivity so that other users can access the files on your website.
Traditionally, a web hosting provider is only involved in leasing out the servers with basic software and technical support. Hosting your website with a traditional hosting provider is usually cheaper and more flexible; but require a little bit of extra work for you to set up a website.
Web Hosting Tips
- There are different kinds of hosting sites available: shared hosting, dedicated server hosting, and cloud.
- If you’re a small website, it’s cheaper to go for shared hosting plans. Bigger sites are recommended to use either cloud or dedicated hosting.
- Some key qualities that you need to consider before choosing a web host are:, pricing, server speed, and uptime rates.
3. Choose a Website builders:
WordPress is the most popular content management system. They focus on content management system (or CMS); software that allows you to create and edit website content without needing to know much code. Initially, WordPress originally started as a blogging platform but is now used for all types of websites.
It’s important to know that WordPress is an open-source content management system, meaning anyone can code and build features for WordPress. Including themes and plugins. WordPress is a great tool to create a website without coding. It has a wide range of themes, templates, and other elements you can click through to help you make your WordPress website.
4. Select website template
Choose the site design you want to use from a range of hundreds of pre-made, high-quality templates. Make any design your own using the Style Editor. Personalize fonts, colors, and layouts to create the custom look you want.
5. Customize the website template
It’s important to customize all of the stock elements of your builder’s theme. Get a unique look, while still retaining the original functionality of the theme.
For example, you can make customizations like:
- Adding more pages to your site;
- Changing the stock images to your own professional photos;
- Changing the theme’s color palette;
- Rearranging the text elements and general layout;
- Changing the font sizes or font style.
Create a website just how you want it. Just click on the content you wish to change, or drag and drop new images. You can easily add maps, blogs, videos, contact forms, or even products to sell. WordPress allows you to create your dream website with ease.
Build Your Website’s Architecture
Your website’s architecture is the way that content (pages and posts) is grouped. This is sometimes referred to as your website’s architecture and is all about how your content is linked together and presented to users and search engines. It’s your website’s framework.
A good website architecture makes it easy for users to navigate between pages and search engines to crawl your content and understand what your site is about.
While there are a lot of different types of web pages that exist, the most essential ones are:
- Home page. The main page for your website.
- Contact page. How your users can contact you.
- About page. This page tells new visitors all about your website, you, and/or business. Basically, companies post “brand story” here about how they came to be.
- Product page. This is where your visitors can purchase products and services from you. Again, can be strongly essential depending on your business.
- Blog page. This page is where all of your blog posts go. If you plan on publishing articles for readers to read, this will be a very important part of your website.
A website shouldn’t be a random collection of pages and posts. It should be an organized collection of content that’s easy for search engines and users to navigate and understand.
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