10 Tips to build your own Website

Posted in Basic Webmastering on May 3rd, 2011 |

Being able to develop your own website and not having to pay out thousands of dollars to a developer is becoming extremely popular with the availability of such cms platforms like wordpress.  More people are interested in running an online business and building a website to promote business globally. If you are among those who are anxiously willing to build a website but don’t know how to start, consider following the ten tips below to get started online.

Tip 1 Choose a subject matter for your website

The first step to create and design a website should be to find the most appropriate market for your website. You must have a specific subject matter for your website. Never try to design a website for everything.  If you are designing a website for cooking recipes, it wouldn’t make sense to discuss other topics that are not related to your theme like insurance and car rental. Keep it on target, highly focused and you will attract an audience that is looking for that type of material.

Tip 2 Select vibrant background colors

Avoid using dark and dull background colors. Lively background with light colors can grab the attention of your visitors and in turn get them to notice your services or products. Most people create and design a website for the promotional campaign of their products and services.

Tip 3 Stay away from flash pages

Don’t try to use flash pages while building a website. Undoubtedly, they look inspiring and attention grabbing, but actually, they are of no use in spite of diverting the attention of your visitors. In this era of advanced technology, we are in dire need of the good, solid facts and information. Therefore, there is no need to waste the time of your visitors by using flash on your pages unless you’re looking to develop a site that is visually captivating.

Tip 4 Avoid Using Music

Unnecessary usage of loud music is enough to make your visitors leave. Try to keep your website silent, which will make it look more professional rather than booming music in your visitors faces. Whatever you do don’t set it to automatically come on when they hit the page as that is a sure fire way to lose them.

Tip 5 Deliver Quality Web content

Try to keep your visitors updated about your services and products. Visitors most commonly try to know what you’re offering on the website. Therefore, you focus should be to write web content about your theme or subject matter or you can also hire someone to write for your website. You need to present a professional and good first impression when people arrive at your website, especially if you are offering products and services.

Tip 6 Bold some of your text

Try to show areas of your website text in bold but don’t overdo it. This can prove a favorable way of grabbing attention of your valuable visitors. Never try to bold each and every letter of your text. Just use it cautiously and carefully to highlight your message.

Tip 7  Provide Easy Navigation

Your visitors need easy navigation to find their required items on your website. The best way to check your website navigation is to ask your friend to check your website by navigating for a specific product and service. This is one of the most important tools for increasing the popularity of your website because visitors want to get an instant access to their required item.

Tip 8 Make your Customer service Accessible

Customer service is the best available option on a website. There must be an easy way to contact you while your visitors are in need of your assistance and help. If you are easily available to your visitors, it will help to win the trust of your visitors.

Tip 9 Check all your links

Your dead links and unavailable connection is going to make your visitors frustrated. You must check your website time and again to keep your visitors updated and to check the reliability of all your website links. The message ‘site not found’ could be very irritating and frustrating for your regular visitors. Therefore, for the convenience of your visitors, keep in touch and take special consideration to check your site monthly for dead links.

Tip 10  Display related links on your website

This is one of the most appealing features you can offer on your website. If you have a website for cooking recipes, you can exchange or share the links of other cooking sites to provide your visitors with other related sites. You must place your link pages on your domain, without using any free linking service. It can provide an avenue for marketing and building popularity for your site though I do suggest that you don’t go overboard on this and fill out your site with tons of links, keep it to a minimal of about 10 related sites.

You should find that applying these valuable and functional tips to build your own website that you should be able to create and run a successful website for your online business promotion. Just remember there is a lot involved with developing a site and you don’t want to overlook the marketing end of it, as that makes up a great portion of the success you will get from your site.

Various online website building services are also available free of cost but it would be better to go for nothing, rather than opting for these free services. It is better to spend something to get something reliable and worthwhile.