How to do make a website

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Technology is ever expanding into new frontiers. The tools to move into these directions are becoming more readily available to those who want to be part of it. If you have recently asked the question "How do you make a website?" you are in for a big surprise.

The big surprise is that making a website today is relatively easy. It takes some planning, the right tools, and a little bit of time.

Planning - In regards to planning, it's not just thinking what you want on your site; it's also about what you want your site to do. Is the site going to be one page, or will you have subpages? Are you just going to offer information, or do you want to sell something? If you're going to sell a service or product (which you probably are) you will need snazzy images, content, a shopping cart, and an opt-in option to collect names and e-mail addresses. You may want to think about a splashpage and what about an affiliate program? All of this, plus more, needs to be incorporated into the planning of how you make a website.

Pre-Made Tools - How do you make a website with everything you have gathered during the planning stage? You now need helpful tools. Knowing what tools you'll need won't be known until the planning has been completed. A basic website can begin with a template which is offered by many different online companies. Some of these companies will also provide the option for your website to be hosted by them as well. In addition to the hosting part, if you go with premade template you should also be offered a number of really cool options that you can add to your website.

How do you make a website with all of the neat stuff you see on other sites? That depends on the software that you use to make the website. As just stated, you need to find a template that you like and start building on that. Remember that you can do whatever you want; however, it needs to be eye catching and be interesting enough to keep visitors on your website. As you are adding and changing, do your best to keep some continuity in color and fonts.

Don't overload your main page. How do you make a website that isn't overloaded? If you have additional information to provide, create a subpage. If you are using a template, creating these additional pages will be easy. Once the page has been created, then you design it just like you did your homepage.

HTML and CSS - HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) is a language you should know something about as it is a tool to help you make a website. The language dictates to the program what you want it to do. CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is the basis of what makes your website pages look the way they do. It is helpful to understand CSS as it will make it easier on you when you need to make changes at a later time. There are others but these are the most common.