Website development is a rather serious and responsible process. To begin with, you need not only to come up with a website theme and decide on a design, but also to solve many technical issues.
Website from scratch
There are several options for creating a website yourself. If you are confident in your knowledge of html, you can literally write a website from scratch. This is usually done in Notepad, although Notepad ++ is a more convenient editor that supports automatic color-coding and highlights code snippets. However, this method is quite costly in terms of both time and resources. It's much easier to use a program like Macromedia Dreamviewer or something similar. Such programs are visual editors. In one of the windows, the user arranges the necessary elements (pictures, text, tables) in the order he needs, and the second displays the html-code of the resulting page.
Online constructors
Another convenient way to create a website yourself is to use online constructors. There are a lot of them on the Internet. The most common platforms are Yandex (*.narod.ru) and Ucoz.ru (*.ucoz.ru). At the moment, there are more than a hundred high-quality constructors on the Web, with the help of which you can create your own website in a fairly short time. The advantages of this method are significant savings in time and effort, intuitive clarity of the structure of the system.
Absolutely any person can create a website with the help of a constructor, including those who have a rather vague idea of Internet markup. The disadvantage of this method is low personalization (there is no guarantee that the template you have chosen is not used on a dozen other similar sites), limited functions. If you are not ready to invest money in creating a website, then a website builder is the ideal option. The system provides you with a certain space on the hosting for free (unfortunately, the volume of your site will be limited to several tens of megabytes), however, if necessary, it can be increased by paying for a service package. Another option is to purchase a second-level domain and choose the hosting that suits you.
Ready CMS
The third way to create a website with your own hands is to use a ready-made CMS. The most widespread in the Russian Internet at the moment are Wordpress, Joomla and Drupal. These are the so-called "engines" that provide almost unlimited possibilities for creativity. On their basis, you can create both business card sites and multi-page portals, online stores, blogs. There are thousands of colorful templates for ready-made site management systems. They can be used "as is" or modified at your discretion (through the administrative panel or using a graphics editor, for example, Photoshop).
If you wish, you can create a website design yourself. This way of building a website requires an investment of money. Firstly, in most cases it is necessary to buy a second-level domain, and secondly, to pay for hosting. However, search engines have more trust in such sites than in sites created in constructors, and therefore, with the same quality of content in the search results, they will be higher.
Stages of website creation
Choose the right theme, think carefully about the concept of your site. It is important to consider not only your personal interests, but also how useful the information posted will be to other Internet users.
Decide on the way in which you will create the site. Watch a video or read instructions on how to create a website in your chosen way. Analyze what difficulties may arise with the technical part.
Choose a site name, register it. If necessary, select a hosting (storage for your site files), pay for its services.
Design your site to match your chosen concept.
Fill the site with 10-20 unique materials (both texts and images).
Start promoting your site.
The indicator of the success of your website will be the constantly growing number of unique visitors, and the guarantee of success is a competent approach already at the planning stage.
