An Introduction To Building A Web Site

By Tom Smythe

For any new business a web site is a vital aspect of marketing that can not be avoided. More and more business start ups are purely based on Internet trade. If you have considered starting an online business of your own you may already have discovered how expensive it can be to have a web site built and designed by a professional. The cost may have caused a rethink on whether or not you should actually start your own business and this article attempts to help you in this decision by looking at cheaper options focusing on low cost, or free, web design tools and free web templates.

One of the main reasons why professional web design is so expensive is that a professional web site really is expensive to create. Not only do you have to cover the wages of the highly trained designer but the company has other costs such as office expenses. Even if the web designer works from home he will be using software and hardware, such as Dreamweaver, Photoshop, graphics tablets and the likes, that is really rather expensive. However there are many cheaper, and some free, alternatives which can be used to create even the most complex websites and some companies even give away complete web designs for free (usually advertised as free web templates).

Getting started is easy, you just have to search your favorite search engine for such things as freeware and shareware for your web design software or image manipulation software. Freeware is free and shareware sometimes carries a small registration fee.

Now upon downloading your first web design software you will see that many have WYSIWYG interfaces with drawing tools making it possible to simply draw your web site. However you will need to learn a little about the programming languages used in web design, HTML & CSS, even a basic knowledge of HTML and CSS will help greatly.

If the idea of learning HTML and CSS terrifies you completely then you will be pleased to hear that some folk provide free web design templates or free css templates, some of which are of an incredibly high standard.

An even easier way to build a web site is to have a simple blog. Whatever topic you want your web site to be about you can be sure that a blog is highly suitable as the Internet has blogs about virtually everything possible.

The best thing about a blog is that they are usually available free! Of course some blogs carry a cost but the most common are free for a basic account, such as Blogger and Wordpress. Such accounts allow you a few megabytes of webspace and a simple, easy to use, interface to add all your pages, photos and movies until your site is complete.

Of course the free blogs are rather basic with some limitations but as your knowledge increases you can upgrade some to include extra facilities and more web space. However it is really not that complicated to change the design of your blog and, if you have downloaded the blog software (Wordpress is best) to install on your own free web space (very easy to install) then you can take advantage of the many free Wordpress themes and templates available.

Always keep in mind that building your first website really is as easy as abc if you want it to be. So why don't you head on over to your favorite search engine and get started on your very first web site just now?

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