How to Build your own Website

Building a website is not rocket science, maybe it was difficult in the past where there isn't any tools to help you. You need to learn basic html coding to create a simple page, but updating and maintaining the site can be time consuming. Who have the time to do all the shit? The other reason why peoples don't build their own website is because the hosting is very expensive. Even if you get a free host like yahoo geocities, anyone still remember that? You get full of ads at the side bar, who like a site that stuff with annoying ads that pop right in your face? And just very recently, yahoo has finally closed their free web hosting geocities after such long time. Why? Simple, because there's other free service out there that are hundred times better and it's free of advertisement. On top of that, they even provide free tools to help you set up the site.

Web hosting is getting cheaper and cheaper in recent years thanks to the fierce competition in the market. Additionally, free open source website development tools such as wordpress, joomla make building a website much easier, as simple as this blog. If you are looking for a totally free and the fastest, simplest way to blog, blogger which you are looking right now is the best for you. You create you own account, if you already have an gmail account just sign in with the same user and pass. Blogger.com pretty much gives you every control over your site from simple choosing a list of existing blogger template and colors to practically change the whole look of your site if you know what you are doing. My blog which you are looking right now is the default template with no modification at all. There's a lot of free template for blogger made by other users on the net you can use, just follow the instruction and paste the code in and you are done. I'm too lazy to find my blog a nice template, I just want to post my random post as fast as I could. Anyways, just letting you know that there's choice for other template than this.

Alright, for those who are a little more tech/web savvy and have your own domain and hosting. You might want something a little more complicated and flexible. I'd recommend you to use wordpress. Wordpress is an free open sources website development tools, in a nutshell it's a ready built website that you can set up immediately. I don't want to go through the complicated process, I'll just make it simple. Assume that you already have a domain and hosting account. First you need to create a database, then upload all wordpress files in your hosting root directory. After it's been completed, visit your site and follow wordpress instruction to have your website set up. Once you are done with the configuratio, your site is basically ready to use. Wordpress is a very powerful open sources tool and it give you full right access to the code. That's mean you can modify however you liket if you have knowledge in PHP coding. If you don't, it's okay, you don't need it anyway. Wordpress have thousands of free template and plugins developed by the community for you to download. You can find literally all kind of add on script such as comment, rating, poll voting...etc. Adding all these plugins is simple too, log into admin backend, chose plugin installation, upload, activate it and you are done. Just read the developer instruction to learn how to properly install and use the plugins.

Beside Wordpress, there's other similar website building tools such as Joomla and others. Wordpress and Joomla are few of the most popular one out there. Both are free to use and features powerful CMS (Content management system). The cms is something similar to blogger where you can add new, edit and delete post. It manage every part of your site on the backend. I personally prefer Wordpress as it's the most popular blog tools out there with many developers supporting it. It's much easier to use and edit compared to Joomla. I've used Joomla before and it's very hard to do even simple modification unless you are an expert programmer. On the other hand, I found wordpress rather easy to understand and modify. I'm by no means a programmer, but I do have basic knowledge of PHP through my course of maintaining various site on the web.

Of course, if you are willing to learn there's nothing impossible. Since you are searching for how to build your own website, you must be new to website developement. I highly recommend you to use wordpress, I knew someone with no prior experience in building website successfully set up his own site. You just need a little patience and reading, that's it.