Continues from part 2 – Choosing a hosting company

Part 3 – Design a cool website

In order to design a cool website you don’t have to be a web designer. Nowadays there are quite a few ways to get a simple website online in just minutes with website platforms like Blogspot, Wordpress, Joomla and many many more.

Blogspot and Wordpress are the most popular website/blogs platform because they are free of charge. You need to download a software (CMS) that allows you to manage the website, for instance, to write posts, publish pictures, videos, banners, flash movies, etc, etc.

For each website platform there are skins or designs or mostly called themes. Many of them are free and can easily be found by searching for example “wordpress free themes”. However, sometimes you can’t find something really nice with a professional look so design companies offer a wide range of awesome themes. Of course you have pay from US$50 until around $100 to get a very professional looking theme. They are easy to use and very customizable. To give you a few companies, check these ones out: Revolution Two, Woo Themes, iThemes, etc.

iStudyatHES.com uses a Gazette Edition Theme by Woo Themes. For a really accessible price we own the theme and we can modify the design as we want. Very good customer services and continues updates to maintain a smooth functioning of the website.

Sometimes coding problems may arise but if you are patient and try to look for answers on the net or forums, you’ll find the way around but be warned! You may get a bit crazy with it! At least I got stressed a few times. Once you learn it, it is very useful for many things.

Now that you built the website, you need to make it popular to the world but how? well, that’s a bit tricky but with advices of SEO (Search Engine Optimization) you can start to rank high in Google. Read how to do it in part 4. (soon online)

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