Building your own website from scratch sometimes seems like an impossible task, especially for a beginner. But is it really so? Of course, making the simplest website is possible even for an amateur, but it is not as easy as it looks at first glance.
The first thing you need to know in order to build a website yourself is the basic programming languages HTML and CSS. Next, to make nice animations on the site and additional functionality you need to learn JavaScript. You will have to watch a lot of video lessons, maybe even sign up for programming courses (by the way, there are very good programming courses in Lviv Esfirum Education).
There is another option: build the website yourself on the WordPress CMS platform, but you will still need to learn the two basic languages HTML and CSS and the basics of PHP. On top of that it is good to learn the functionality of this CMS and the plugins used in it. All of this takes nerves, time and money (as in the case of courses).
So why exactly WordPress? This CMS platform is the most powerful among the other CMSs, most websites (more than 60%) are built with exactly this system.
The advantages of WordPress are:
- Works fast, takes little space
- It has a large number of themes
- It has built-in features that in other CMSs require additional configuration, for example commenting with very broad options.
- It transliterates tags from Chinese into Latin so that search engines on a link exchange index pages with tags, for example links, correctly.
- In WordPress the relevant menu items are added automatically after new publications are created in the corresponding section.
- It is not hard to promote a website in search engines like Google and Yandex.
- And of course a very convenient page for administering the site.
Among the other advantages of this CMS platform are also the easy setup of widgets (blocks) and menus, a built-in HTML page editor, the creation of ad blocks and menus by simply dragging them into place with the mouse, and automatic updates of all plugins and of the WordPress system itself.
It should also be noted: on WordPress you can build a website for free yourself, which makes this platform stand out among the others. But if you want your website to have extra features and to be set up and optimised properly, and if you have no time to learn programming languages, then it is of course better to order the development of the site and its design from specialists.
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It can start from $ 500 and go up to several thousand US dollars. However, there is no need to be scared by the price, because if your website is for business it will constantly attract many clients, and if it is for fun you will still be able to earn from visits and advertising.
It is worth explaining what the price of a website depends on. First, on its complexity: the technically simpler the site, the cheaper it is. Second, its design. There are websites whose design makes up more than 80% of the entire cost. As a rule this is the design of everything from button icons to the logo. However, the more unique the design, the higher your web resource will be in the search engines. The functionality of the web resource is also an important part of the price.
Special attention should be paid to the texts. For your website to be at the top of the search engines you will need unique texts; if you want to put quality title text and page texts on the site you should hire a specially trained person. And that is a separate cost item. The price of a website also depends on other, no less important points. For example, the qualification of the specialist, SEO optimisation, the number of pages of the site and so on.
We hope this knowledge will help you build your first website easily, quickly and without any problems.
