How to create website

 You don't have to be a programmer or web designer to create a good resource. There are now over 200 million active websites, and many of them were created by ordinary people. However, keep in mind that the relevance and strength of your resource depends on many technical and web administrative factors.

When you understand what to build on, making a website yourself is really easy. If you already have graphic and text content, then working on a resource of ten to twenty pages will take from two days to a week. But at the same time, it should be beautifully designed and convenient for obtaining user experience (UX). It must also have minimal search engine optimization (SEO), otherwise Google and Yandex will simply not notice it.

How to create a website yourself?

First of all, you need to decide on the type of resource and choose the one that best suits your short-term and long-term plans. At the beginning of the 21st century, the entire Internet consists of the following types of sites.

Blogs. These resources are personal or industry pages such as tourism, fishing or travel. Usually a blog is run by one person and its success, first of all, depends not on design and SEO, but on the quality of graphic and text content.

E-commerce sites. These include online stores, catalogs with the possibility of ordering, message boards, exchanges and other online trading resources. A rare person alone can create a successful site of this type.

Resources with educational programs. Now this segment is rapidly developing - after all, video courses can teach literally any skill. If you have excellent knowledge in a sought-after field or a rare specialization, such a site will easily make you popular. Especially if you add English subtitles to the uploaded video.

Resources with news or aggregators. Usually created by a team of like-minded people who share responsibilities. They quickly get a very large number of visitors and live by advertising.

Internet communities. This includes forums and social networks where people can chat and buy at the same time. At present, the niche is practically monopolized by FB, VK and global industry forums-portals such as habr

Portfolio. Are personal or business support resources. They exhibit samples of work, such as landscape design, renovation, graphics, handmade or technical projects.

Corporate sites. These are representations of legal entities or government organizations in the network. Sometimes they support the trade and catalog feature.

Landing pages. A special type of one-page resources that became a trend in the 10s. Combines the functions of E-commerce, portfolio and corporate website. With ready-made content, you can easily make your site look like a landing page.

Whatever type you choose, you should keep in mind that building a site yourself requires a step-by-step approach.

Usually the steps are performed in this order:

Idea development.

Design development.

Preparation of graphic and text content.

Select the level of web resource creation.

Choosing a domain name.

Hosting choice.

Minimum SEO setup.

Analytics connection.

What is needed to create a website?

There are 3 fundamental levels of work when creating web resources:

creating a website with a website builder is easy;

creation of a site with a content management system (CMS) - medium complexity;

programming a website on your own is very difficult.

Those who read this article may have different skills and experience in programs that will make it easier for them to work at the second or third level. For example, familiarity with Photoshop will help create a more beautiful and harmonious resource, and knowledge of 1C will make it easier to work with data.

Naturally, knowledge of the HTML markup language (quite simple, by the way) or the PHP programming language will allow you to create a website yourself, using and modernizing ready-made templates. In this case, you can post pretty good pages on the web claiming to be unique.

In general, you should have an idea about such things:

How to create individual pages, organize them into categories, and categories into sections;

How to generate a sitemap;

How to properly use Title, Description and Meta Tags in pages;

How to create a semantic core and insert keywords into the content.