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Introduction to Website Design for Beginners
Website design for beginners can be an intimidating subject. It can make a beginner shrink back and never want to build a website from scratch due to all that goes into the process. However, with the right approach, anyone can build a website with ease if they create a plan before they create the website.
How and where do you begin?
Get a sheet of paper, sit in a quiet room and begin to brainstorm ideas for your website. A beginner website should consist of content you know a lot about. Having knowledge about your website will make it easier to build it.
One of the biggest hurdles beginner website builders struggle with is writers block. When you know your subject you’ll have much better success. Your knowledge will be much easier to convey to your audience.
The next phase is to decide which style website best fits the idea you brainstormed to get.
The steps above are the toughest part of building a website. Once you have honed in on your idea and the style of website best fits your idea, you will need to create content and put it into categories. Your categories will be based on the keywords people type into search engines to find your website.
Determine what style website best fits your idea based on these example website types.
1. e Commerce Website
2. Review Website
3. Affiliate Website
4. AdSense Website
5. eBay Website
6. Business Website
This is not an exhaustive list of websites. These are some of the more popular types of websites that are on the web today.
Any of these types of websites could be the right for your idea. You must decide which works for your idea.
Let’s say you decide to build a Review Website about roses. Your steps would be:
1. Decide what product you know a lot about. (roses?)
2. Choose review website as the back drop.
3. Research what other review sites say about the product (your competition)
4. Get a domain name that has your keywords in it. (sample – myrosereview.com)
5. Research and find keywords that people use to find your product on the web.
6. Structure your websites layout plan (Drawings & Site Map)
7. Get hosting for your website.
8. Build your website (Drag & Drop Software)
9. Write articles for your website for visitors to read.
10. Monitor your website traffic. (Google Analytics Free Software)
Sample Idea
When you were growing up you loved roses so much that you wanted to build a website about them. The knowledge you accumulated through the years is waiting to delight your audience. They love your site so much, they find themselves visiting on a regular basis.
They see the passion you have for the subject and want you to share more of your knowledge about roses.
In fact, your passion may be so strong that you create an eBook about how to care for roses that will be sold from your website.
Your review website becomes a website that generates a few hundred dollars per month from the sell of your eBook. Your knowledge about roses continues to grow and so do the pages of your website through the years. You have built a website you can be proud of.
That’s what success looks like.
Here’s what normally happens to a beginning website designer that leaves out the steps above. He or she will think of a really cool idea about a website that makes money online. Excitement begins to build but the crucial beginning steps are left out.
1. You don’t brainstorm to get a clear idea of the subject of your website.
Remember, you want to build your website based on a subject you know a lot about.
2. You don’t develop a plan for your website idea so frustration begins to set.
3. Your great idea slowly fades away and you’re back to square one with only an idea about a website you want to build someday.
Many website design success stories for beginners were only ideas at one time. If they had given up, their websites would not exist today.
They all had to begin somewhere. Don’t get hung up on obstacles that get in the way. There will be obstacles. They’re a part of life.
Each time a runner gets close to a hurdle he or she jumps it and keeps going straight to the finish line; but not without learning how to jump the hurdle first.
Your website idea is the hurdle that can be jumped. You have the knowledge locked in you mind and website build tools are available; some are even free.
Learn the steps to formulating an website idea and carry it through to the finish line. Don’t give up! Finish the race. Build your beginner website today!
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