The first commercial websites needed professionals to program and put them together. They were difficult to program, tough to upload, and almost impossible to design with the slow computers and high graphic needs. Almost two decades later, things are much simpler. Learn an easy way to make a website for free nowadays!
All the programming that needed high level professionals less than twenty years ago can be accomplished through means totally unheard of way back when. Programs and code have been written to do what the program and the code only touched on in the early 1990s.
These template based websites have become very popular. No one needs to know anything about CGI scripting or XTML coding. Many of these sites even come with shopping carts, autoresponders, email, a huge selection of built in animation and graphics, news, and even the ability to use HTML if you want to.
Companies like Yahoo and Google and Microsoft offer fabulous options to build fully functional websites for free or for pennies. Of course, you do need to buy a domain name if you want a real “dot com” address, otherwise, your URL will include the name of the sponsor of your site.
For example, if you make customer designed wooden bookends and your company name is Kevin’s Bookends, you have a choice of www.microsoftlive.kevinsbookends.com for free, or www.kevinsbookends.com once you purchase your own URL or domain name.
Another option is to use a blog site as your website. Some blogging sites are better than others depending on how much you can manipulate it or add your own code. Certain blogs provide a variety of templates, and each one can use certain gadgets or widgets that can be customized to your needs. Other than that, most of these websites will be very similar.
If this doesn’t interest you, you can still search online for free web templates, build your site for free, and then pay a few dollars a month to have your site hosted somewhere.
Free doesn’t necessarily mean “cheap” or unattractive. There are some superb websites out there that were done using free services they found online. Not just tiny companies, but companies that do business nationally or even internationally. Business owners have finally realized that there is no need to spend hundreds of dollars a month to have someone on call to update their site on a regular basis. They do it themselves, for free, using user friendly template services. Why pay for something when you get it for free?
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