The Internet industry does not stop developing, and having your own website is almost in the order of things. The advantage of the Internet is that you can open something of your own here for free or for little money. Meanwhile, such projects can develop to a large scale and begin to make a profit themselves.
Choosing a strategy
There are many ways to create a website for free. But in any case, you will have to pay for the domain name and hosting (disk space). These costs are not high, the more you can choose a favorable tariff. However, there is also an alternative. Some services that act as free "website builders" do not charge hosting fees. But the fact is that on the site created on their basis, blocks with someone else's advertising will be located. This ad will certainly not generate income for you.
You can create a website yourself. To do this, it is enough to have minimal knowledge of HTML and CSS, but the less knowledge, the less the site's functionality. If there is no such knowledge, and the site needs to be created in the near future, it is worth using the services of "designers".
There is also an intermediate option. Using WordPress or Joomla, you can create a website yourself and for free. At the same time, although your site will not be as unique as the “free” sites are, its capabilities will be much wider than the site on the “constructor”.
One page site
Single page sites usually serve as business cards or landing pages (sales pages). There are many services on the Internet that, in 10 minutes, taking into account your wishes, will help you create a one-page website. The most convenient and functional of the free are Enthuse.me and CheckThis.
For a business card site, the first service is more suitable. You can directly download your personal information from Facebook by adding the necessary links and contacts. The projects you are working on look very attractive on this service. Also here you can select the necessary widgets and pick your favorite icons.
CheckThis requires authorization to work. You can go through this procedure using Facebook or Twitter. Here you can add text blocks, titles, YouTube videos and even Google Maps. Another feature is the ability to create polls. This option is more suitable for a selling page, because has the function of adding a "Buy" button, which is directly related to the payment system.
Simple and free "constructors"
The issue of creating a site with more than one page is a little more difficult to solve. The services that provide such services are usually paid or place a lot of advertisements on your site.
Designly service is very easy to use. True, the free version of the constructor has rather limited functionality. By clicking on the button that means getting started on the main page, the service will offer you to choose one of four ready-made templates or a blank sheet from which you can make something of your own. The next job is just to choose what, where and how on your site should be located. It's easy to do, so you will immediately see the finished result.
Another free service is Yola.com. The service will provide you with 1 GB of hosting, with which you can do whatever you want. The interface is clear and easy to use. A very nice bonus is that, apart from advertising Yola itself, after launching you will not find anything third-party.
