The Steps
The order of the steps or the words used to call or describe each step, may slightly differ from webmaster to webmaster, but basically the following order would take us where we want to go.
 Define the Purpose of your Website. The purpose is the objetive of the website and/or the theme of what your website is about. Don't get confused, the purpose of a website is not to make money, but to give information about a specific topic, or to sell a determine product or service. Websites must always have just one main purpose, if it has more than one you should consider creating a website for each purpose. Having clearly define the purpose, will help you find the best keywords and will make easier the optimization process.
Search for Domain Names. Once you have clearly define the purpose of your website, search various options for domain names. The first domain names options to consider must be the ones that include your primary keywords. The easiest and fastest way to find an available domain name and register it without any misfortune, is creating it right from the top of your head, convenient, short, catchy and easy to remember. Learn more at our domain names page.
Register the Domain Name. Once you choose the domain name, the next step is to check whether it is available and register it. Since many domain names are taken, domain name registration could be time consuming. At WebSite Adviser we offer a domain checker tool to help you find out if a domain name is available. There are several domain extensions you can choose from, search engines will not categorized websites depending on the extension used. Learn more at the domain names registration page.
Buy Web Hosting. If you will not host your site in your own server, you will definitely need to find web hosting. Good web hostings include all the tools you need to make and maintain your site, and an excellent customer support at an affordable price. Free or cheap web hosting is not always the best, and could turn into expensive, that's why we have an independent and impartial review of the top ten best web hosting providers listed in alphabetical order.
Write the Content. Always dedicate time creating high quality, useful and relevant content for your website that your visitors will actually want to read. This will not only help your search engine ranking, but will also invite your visitors to come back, to join your news letter, your forum and even recommend and link to your website. Don't waste time in animations, flash and fancy grafics, this is ignore by search engines and often also by your visitors, instead dedicate time writing useful content.
Structure your Website. Is very important to divide a website content in different pages to have one page specifically by topic, and keep your website correctly structured. Make a simple diagram to visualize the website, with a series of boxes representing each page in the site with lines connecting them showing the linking plan.
Design your Website. This is the step when you will define the appearance and style of your site, like the layout, the colors scheme and the fonts to be used in all your pages, as well as its functionality for example if you need a software download page, shopping cart, customer or associates login, activations section, etc.
Build your Website. Now is time put all together, place the previously written content in your web pages, link them and create the website with all its functionalities. In this step you have three possible ways to go based on your skills, the amount of money you are willing to invest, how much you want to learn HTML and how soon you want the website. Learn all about this step at our website creation page.
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