Steps to build a website

If you are new to this making website stuff you need to now the basic steps to fulfill your endeavor. Each of these steps needs posts of their own to cover them in full detail. Here I will give you some simple explanation about each site.
Without further delay let me tell you these steps.

In above image you can see the steps. It is not essential to follow these steps in this sequence but its better if you do.
Lets me explain these steps one by one.
1. Select Domain:

Choosing a appropriate name is must to every website and you should never take it lightly. Most of the online website and blog making services provides subdomains to host your websites on. Blogger provides yoursite.blogspot.com, on wordpress.com your get yoursite.wordpress.com and so on. I strongly suggest you stay way from subdomain hosting if you are even a little bit serious about your site. 
If you want to start a personal blog then you can choose youname.com as your domain but for a website aimed at promoting any business domain should relate to what your business is about. For example for a plumber named John located in New Jersey newjerseyplumber.com is a better name then johntheplumber.com.
Few simple things that you should keep in mind when selecting domain:

• Your domain should be short and simple
• Try to get a .com domain but if your target people lives in some specific country you can always choose specific extension of that country. If both .com and your country specific domain are available always go for .com.
• Try not to get a domain with hyphen(-). Its difficult to tell by mouth.
• For business website get a domain which tells about your business. domain should contain words describing your business.

2. Get web hosting space:

If you are hosting your own website then you will need a good web hosting service like hostgator or bluehost. Web hosting space is the space you need to store on a server which will stay always on and deliver your website whenever someone visit your site. Always go for a quality and well renowned host or you may loose a lots of customer/visitor.
If you use online website building services like weebly or wix you will not have to worry about this step.
People who wants to host their blogs on blogger, wordpress.com or tumblr don’t need any web hosting. Their blogs are hosted on the respective service. If you want full control and want to install WordPress on your own service you will need a web hosting. Go for a host with cpanel and fantastico. With fantastico you can install WordPress with only few clicks.
Most important quality you need to look for in any web host is their tech support. If your website is down and your web hosting provider is out of your reach for long period you are totally doomed.
For better hosting with cpanel and fantastico I suggest using Hostgator or Bluehost web hosting. They are in business for years and host more than million websites each. I too use Hostgator to host my websites.

3.  Build your website:

This is the last and most difficult step. If you are building a blog you are in luck. All blogging services provide nice looking templates and themes to design your blog to your liking. Self hosted WordPress users have even more options as lots of free and paid themes are available for them to download and install on their blogs.
For business websites, you can use weebly or wix and you will have a lot less to worry about. There are many template option for various type of website and you can create pages with ease.
If you want to built a static HTML website you can download free or paid templates available at various websites. You will need basic understanding of HTML, CSS and JavaScript to accomplish the task.
If you want a dynamic website with contact forms and other such things it will need knowledge of more technologies. You can always hire a web developer to get your website done but that will cost a lot.
For more information read create website for free. In that post I have written about various services where you can create your website or blog for free.

These steps are simple but there is lot to think about when making choices. I will write about these steps in details later. If you want to keep track please subscribe to this blog by filling your email in the form located I sidebar.