How to Create a Website

Web design is the process of planning and designing a website. Learning how to create a website can be time consuming and sometimes difficult to learn, but well worth the effort if you want to have complete control over the design, style and layout of your website. It is also handy to know so that you don't have to rely on someone else when you need or want to make any changes to your website.

Planning a website involves deciding what you want the layout of your website to look like, what graphics you want to use, what content to include on your pages and where to place all of these elements to make them come together so that you have a nice looking, well-proportioned website.

Designing a website includes the use of colors, fonts, images and navigation to create a stunning website. You can choose what color or image you want to use for the background if any. Decide on the font style and the navigation menu or menus, whether or not you want a header graphic. The list goes on and on.

There are 3 things you will need to purchase before Getting Started Online.

HTML and CSS

HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) are used to create a basic website. HTML is the language used to create web pages that can then be read by your browser and CSS is used to style the HTML pages that you create.

How to Style Webpages Using CSS

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). What they are and how to use them.

Basic HTML Structure

The basic structure of an HTML document.

Using an HTML Editor

Some people who create their own websites choose to use an HTML editor. An HTML editor allows the user to create a website without knowing any HTML or CSS. Personally I don't like using them. I prefer to have complete control over how my website will be styled and designed.

Every online business owner should know at least the basics of how to create a website. By basics, I mean that you should know a little bit of HTML and CSS so that if you need to make some simple changes to your website, you can do it yourself.

Traffic

So now you have planned what you want your website to look like and decided on the colors and fonts and you have a really nice looking website. What now? You don't want all of your efforts to be wasted by not having anyone see it, so the next step is getting Traffic (visitors) to your website.

Free Traffic Sources

There are two different types of websites that you can create. The first is your Squeeze Page (Landing Page). A squeeze page is a one page website. The second is your main website. Your main website is where you will have your information pages (content). It is also where you can promote products.

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