The Beginners Guide To Building Websites - Cheap
From go to whoa. Design a website for as little money as possible without losing the quality. Scroll down to get reading!- How to make a website - getting started
- How to design a website - making it look good!
- How to get visitors to a website - including how to get a site listed on Google.
- How to make money from a website - monetise your site.
- Website Resources - take your site to the next level
How To Build A Website
Getting Started
Pick a domainThe very first thing to take care of when building a website is domain registration. Some basic tips: use relevant keywords, keep it short and keep it easy to remember. Try to go for .com, .org, .com.au or .org.au - lesser-known ways such as .biz, .info or .tk may be cheaper but will lack credibility with your visitors and possibly even search engines such as Google.Choose a host
Dream Host are a web hosting company that has a great reputation around the internet and goost prices. NEW: use promo code JONKSBARGAINS and receive a FREE domain registration! Use these guys if you're planning on having a high traffic website. Here
GoDaddy has pretty cheap domains but is reliable which is so important. I use them for my domains! Here
Domains Are Free well, not free but at time of writing, $3.99 for .com, .net, and .org amongst others. Here
Crazy Domains retail cheap .com.au domains - $12.95 at time of listing. Here
Free Domain Site show some interest in their advertisers and they'll give you a .com, .net or .org. Here
Free Domain offers a free .co.nr registration. Note: don't do this sort of thing unless desperate. Here
A host holds all the files for your website. The two basic things to check for are data storage, which is how much memory you are allowed to take up on their server and bandwidth, which is how much memory your visitors are able to download from you. For example, if you have a picture that is 2MB and visitors download it 500 times, you have just used 1000MB of bandwidth.Learn the code to build a website
Nearly Free Speech Brilliant pricing for web-hosting - only pay for what you actually use. It's $1/GB bandwidth and $0.01/MB for hosting. Only use this if you are planning on buildnig a website that has relatively low traffic and/or few images. Here
Dream Host, as mentioned above, has a great reputation around the internet and good prices. NEW: use promo code JONKSBARGAINS and receive a FREE domain registration! Use these guys if you're planning on having a high traffic website. Here
Jumba is perfect if you have a .com domain name but want to be listed on Google.com.au. They also have quite reasonable plans. Their customer service is also second-to-none from what I can tell. Here
Free Domain Hosting is a directory of places that will host your website free. These website generally come with some pretty strict T&Cs and have some downtime. Not recommended for eCommerce but for a personal website, why not? Here
x10hosting offers free web-site hosting. Once again, not for e-Commerce websites but if you're running an information website, this could be a good thing for you. Here
Getting out of learning code. If you don't want to code and don't want to pay someone else to do your website, there's ways. You can use a What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get-Editor which requires little to no coding knowledge. Dreamwaver is expensive but the most powerful, with NVU and Web Dwarf providing free alternatives. (I use Notepad.)Next article : Make the site look good
If you use shopping cart software (or another PHP content system such as Joomla or Drupal) chances are you won't need much HTML, if any at all. Whichever route you take it's so much more helpful to at least have a BIT of coding even if you don't want to design your whole site. I learnt what I know in about 4 hours, which goes to show how basic it can be. Not bad hey? Whenever I don't know how to do something I just Google the question. If you've got the time make sure to learn CSS as well - this website is built on CSS (by someone else) but because I can barely understand it, editing has been difficult.
HTML Goodies is where I learnt. Start with the HTML primer and keep on learning until you get sick of it Here
w3schools comes highly recommended by many, although I find them confusing sometimes. Here