How To Make A Website

First of All, Choose Your Website Platform.

• You don’t need to learn HTML, CSS, PHP to create a good and functional website(if you don't want to be professional developer).
• Before you start thinking about colour schemes, domain name and web hosting, you’ve got to decide what platform you’re going to build your website with.

I don’t recommend learning coding from scratch as it could take months, if not years to fully master.

And even then, you’re probably still not satisfied with the end result of your website. Adding content through HTML and PHP pages would be time wasting and really complicated process.

In 2017, most people and organizations use content management systems (CMS) to build and manage their websites.I’m recommending it, too.

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• Most popular and well-known CMS (website platforms) are free.
• To put simply, a content management system (or website building platform) is a user-friendly platform for building websites and managing your website content, instead of using a bunch of loose HTML, CSS and PHP pages.

CMS is good choice for many different types for websites, as organizations and individuals can:

• Copy/paste content into a page and then just update when changes need to be made. (i.e. like copying from Microsoft Word)
• Don’t need to hire someone to fill a web maintenance role. (nobody likes to spend money)
• There’s no need to buy expensive software to build out pages.

Using CMS is all very simple and user-friendly.

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According to recent statistics, three most popular website building platforms in 2017 are.

1. WordPress (FREE, 50.07%)
2. Drupal (FREE, 17.07%)
3. Joomla (FREE, 6.44%)

In most cases, however, Drupal and Joomla are too robust and difficult for an average internet users, hence the reason, I suggest sticking with WordPress.

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Because at this point there are no better/easier ways to build a website; But more importantly:

• 1. WordPress is FREE

WordPress doesn’t cost a dime to download or install (though it’s being updated each month), and there’s a huge community who help/guide people for free.

• 2. WordPress is VERY flexible

If you know how to use Microsoft Word, you already know how add your own content. WordPress can be expanded with free plugins to handle just about any site you can imagine. There’s more than 2000 free themes to choose from.

• 3. No need to learn HTML, CSS and PHP from scratch (can take 6+ months)

Since WordPress acts as a “website editor”, you don’t need to learn all the coding skills just to add one single image or line of text.

• There’s no need to buy expensive software to build out pages.

• 4. There’s huge developer network

Vast majority of web designers and developers use WordPress. This means you can get help quite quickly.

• 5. WordPress is great for small and large sites

From websites to online stores, WordPress can handle just about any kind of website. WordPress is also used by eBay, Mozilla, Reuters, CNN, Google Ventures and even NASA.

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