STEP BY STEP TO BUILD YOUR WEBSITE

When you register a domain name,you also need to sign up for web hosting, and ready to start building your website.But do you know where to start?Especially if your time is limited,its very difficult to know what to work on first.

These are the stages are usually follow up when i want to build a website and once i set up my domain and hosting;

* Design a website template (the site's look-and-feel)
* Start writing content and articles
* Tell everyone about my awesome new site
* Install WordPress
* Set up website-monitoring tools (Analytics, Webmaster Tools, etc.)
* Make sure the site's architecture is the way I want it (subdomains, subfolders, link structure, etc.)
* Canonicalize my domain name and homepage
* Put up a robots.txt file

I prefer to create my own Templates and use those. However my websites are technical and hence the graphics aren't as important as the actual content.

However in some industries it is necessary to have high quality graphics, but even then I would be wary of overloading the site with too many graphics and avoid over complicated appearances.

Always keep the design simple.

Remember less is often more in web design. Web pages should look clean and professional and not like a Salvador Dali imitation. If your unsure then take a look at the Google homepage and see what a multi billion dollar company prefers.

Many web designers use an existing website template as the basic design and modify it to suit the customers needs. You can adopt the same approach and obtain a website template and modify it as necessary.

Alternatively you can choose a website building system like Wordpress which comes with many pre-built web designs to choose from.

You can even have your design/template done for you by a professional design company, or if you have an existing site then get them to do a site makeover.

What a Good Design Does for Your Website

A good design doesn't get visitors to your site but once they are there it makes them either want to stay or to leave.

So if you have a business site and aren't happy doing the design yourself or want an opinion on the design then I recommend you consult a professional web design company.

So which should come first, and how should you prioritize a list like this?

In my case, being able to see the product of my work is very motivating; so my first step was to install WordPress on my site, and to pick a theme for the site. Even though I didn't have any of my own content yet, WordPress puts up an initial "Hello world!" post for you, so as soon as you've installed it there's something there on your site for you to look at (visual progress!).

Next, I worked on some underlying technical/architectural issues. I wanted to do anything that could seriously mess up my site right at the beginning, so that if I did mess something up, I wouldn't lose a bunch of content or visitor traffic in the process. This included canonicalizing my domain name, messing around with my .htaccess file, and installing plugins and other software on my site. I also wanted to make sure that the link structure of my site was just the way I wanted it, so that when search engines started indexing it and people started linking to it they would only see the URLs that I wanted them to see.

Once I knew that all my site's content could be found at the right URLs, I was almost ready to start telling people about my site. But I did one last thing before letting the cat out of the bag: I set up Google Analytics and Webmaster Tools. Analytics tracks visitor traffic and behaviour, but it can only do so starting from the moment you install the Analytics code on your site; so I wanted to make sure that it was set up before I started getting the word out, so that I could track all of my traffic from day one. Webmaster Tools isn't as time-sensitive (since it doesn't rely on JavaScript to track statistics), but the sooner you set it up the sooner you can start seeing what statistics have been gathered for your site.

At this point I was finally ready for word to get out, so I started blogging about my new site. I also put up a robots.txt file to block search engines from crawling certain duplicate content that exists on my site. I'm using WordPress as more of a content management system than a blogging platform (which is what it's geared towards by default), so there are some ways of accessing content (such as by tag or by author) that don't make sense for my site, but I'm too lazy to research how to get rid of those URLs right now. So I'm blocking crawlers from them until I get around to getting rid of them altogether.

And finally, I started putting some actual content on my site. It's kind of like building a house... The point of it is to have a house, and you're probably less excited about the foundation than about the house itself, but you need to have a strong foundation in order to build the interesting parts of the house on top of it. Similarly, I'm excited about getting this site up because I have a ton of information that I want to post; but before I can get to the fun part (creating content), I want to make sure the technical foundations of my site are strong.