Hello dear readers of the blog site. Usually the first question that a potential webmaster asks himself is how to independently create your future website without investing money. It is understandable who wants to spend money (pay for the engine or for a full-fledged development), when the prospects of this project are completely unclear.

At the same time, many at first mistakenly believe that the main thing in the site is to make everything look beautiful, convenient, functional, creative and I would like to say "Wah!" But a website is not a painting, and its artistic value is not essential. first of all, content (see details), and the shell, in which it will be enclosed, is secondary.

But the shell (engine, design, structure) is nevertheless also important, because a bad decision can hinder the development of a potentially successful project. In my opinion, the best option is a free engine like Joomla or WordPress, because these are practically professional solutions that are distributed absolutely free. But it's up to you to decide - below I will voice all the options with their pros and cons.

In any case, making a website yourself on these free engines (or on inexpensive paid ones) is not something prohibitively difficult, especially since you will use the materials and links from this article, providing yourself with a handicap regarding the webmasters starting with you 🙂

Website creation independently and for free

Once again I want to repeat the main message that I gave in the introductory part - neither that site is good that is beautiful, but one that has something to read (or see if graphics and videos are the prevailing part of the content). It's better to explore interesting content on a white page without much navigation than wandering around a super-beautiful and thoughtful web project with completely empty and useless content.

It is like a library with very wonderful shelving, a convenient catalog, a good librarian, but containing books that are not interesting to anyone (even in small quantities). Better to let the books be scattered on the floor, but which one you take is a masterpiece.

Although, ideally, everything should be fine on the site (as in a person) - content, design, and presentation. This is the formula for success - simple in formulation, but damn difficult to implement, because the devil is in the little things, and there are so many little things that even reading about them is tiresome, and not just what to follow on them.

Didn't scare you? Otherwise, you will not read further, thereby worsen the behavioral characteristics of this article 🙂 Is there still a desire to plunge into all this? It is commendable, because the road will be mastered by the one walking, but at the same time it is better if someone tells you the least thorny path, focusing on your experience. Isn't it true? Then let's go on to the merits of the issue.

Three whales on which the site stands

So, first you need to understand that the site will have to:

1. Placed somewhere. Usually, hosting is used for this (special data centers, where you will be provided with space for files and a database, as well as provide continuous access to the site via the Internet for everyone). Although at the development stage you can use and, but then all the same without hosting in any way. I advise you to read my article about that.
2. The website must also have a name (domain) and this is a very important point, because changing the name will be more difficult than, say, changing the hosting. read the article on the link (it is clear that at first it will be difficult, but at least go diagonally to be in the subject).
3. Well, very few people now enter the text of articles directly into Html files, and therefore your resource should have some kind of content management system ( CMS- the administrative part, where you can add article texts, edit, sort them by headings, insert pictures and videos. Also, the CMS is usually also responsible for the appearance of web pages (themes / design templates are used), functionality (various add-ons to the engine) and navigation, which is also very important. CMS is also used in online constructors, if that.

All of these components are important in their own way, and each of them will affect not only the cost of creating a site (and its ownership), but also its future success with search engines and visitors. Consider two extremes. For example, you can create a website absolutely free of charge if you use:

1. Free hosting. Oddly enough, it happens. For more details, see my article on. Personally, I started with this, and already when the prospects began to hatch, I switched to paid hosting.
2. Free domain. This is also possible, but in most cases it will be that is not ice for promotion. It is possible, but in rather specific domain zones and with your not very clear rights to this name.
3. Free CMS. There are also more than enough of them, and the best examples can serve as and. In fact, it is not so difficult, for example, thanks to this free course - even a beginner can make a website from scratch on WordPress and start making money on it.

You probably know the opposite of the absolutely free option. it just unfasten the dough immeasurably (or moderately) to the one who buys, connects and does everything for you. After a while, you will get everything ready for use (as they say, turnkey). All that remains is to add content, although you can buy it on or hire a content manager again for this case.

Start building your website with this

I'll tell you a secret that the truth (the option with the best price / quality ratio) lies somewhere in the middle. To find this middle is your main task at the moment. Therefore, for each of the points, I will give advice (short or not):

1. Hosting - forget it for now. You can even train on a local server or on free hosting. In online constructors (read about them below), you won't have to bother with this at all. This is then the problem of choosing a hoster will arise in front of you in all its glory, but this is not a matter of prime necessity.
2. Domain - it is very important to make the right choice first. This is the name of the site (albeit a technical one), which means that the fate of the entire project partially depends on it (what do you call the boat ...). Therefore, in order, I will outline the disposition and give links to where you can read more about this:
   1. ... There are a lot of sites (in the world, and in Runet in particular) and all their owners want a short and sonorous name for their resource. Your task is to find something suitable and not occupied by anyone else in the domain zone that you choose. Usually they take it for Runet. You can do this right here by entering the intended name in the form below:

      For RU and SU zones, only combinations of Latin characters and some valid characters (,,, [_], [-]) can be used. Usually, the words in the domain name are not separated by anything, ie .. If this option is already taken, and you really want to, then you can use a dash as a separator, but not an underscore, because it is not particularly visible and users can get confused. You can still look for options, but it will be more expensive there.

   2. ... A very important point after choosing a name. Runet has a dozen official domain name registrars, among which you will have to choose. Don't forget that a domain is essentially your site. You will lose it, and with a high degree of probability you will lose your resource. Therefore, register it only with trusted registrars (I use the oldest of them), and also indicate your real data, because in the event of force majeure, this will help restore your rights to the domain.
   3. When registering a domain, I advise you to take advantage of the opportunity from. There will be such a check mark in the settings when registering a domain. In the future, this can save you from unnecessary problems with scammers, extortionists and other radishes.
   4. it makes sense to use it only for a test (learn, for example, change from your registrar, to transfer a site to another hosting) or for resources, the further fate of which will not be important to you. IMHO.
3. CMS (content management system) - you will have it anyway, because somehow you will have to add materials to the site. Even if you order the creation in the studio, there will be their own CMS (or some of the public ones). The same goes for online builders. It is important to choose the best option for you right now, because then transferring the website to the new engine will be a rather difficult problem. The entire next section is devoted to this particular problem, therefore, I will shut up here to save your time.

To collect scattering thoughts in one heap, I advise you to familiarize yourself with the generalizing one. It is difficult, but if you overpower yourself a bit, then understanding will come (wrote in some detail).

How to make your website - 4 main ways

But let's first answer the question raised in the title. In my opinion, there are three main approaches to creating a full-fledged web project:

1. Do everything yourself - from the engine to design
2. Leave everything at the mercy of a studio or freelancer
3. Use a free online builder (or a paid one if you wish)
4. Use a free and paid ready-made engine for the site (CMS - content management system)

Let's take a closer look at the pros and cons of each of these methods, because a lot depends on this choice.

Create your own website (completely with your own hands)

You need to understand that this includes a whole range of work: develop a design, write an engine script, add modules, think about security and take into account much more. And if at the end you get an excellent result, then you are not among the webmasters, but among the creators of engines for websites 🙂

Have a completely independent option for creating a website there are pluses:

1. You can do everything for free
2. In the course of working on your website, you willy-nilly will have to thoroughly study, study, get acquainted with PHP and other technologies necessary for the development of modern Internet projects. That. you will become a specialist in this field.
3. You will know "inside and out" exactly how your engine is arranged and how it works, because you will actually assemble it yourself by cogs. You will clearly know and understand how something can be added to it, how to improve it, etc.
4. The engine you create yourself will be an example of expediency and will not contain absolutely nothing superfluous, which cannot be said about general-purpose products

Now let's move on to cons creating a website from scratch (and from a complete one), only on your own:

1. You will need a huge amount of time to study all possible web development projects (Html, CSS, PHP, etc.)
2. Relying only on your own strength, you most likely will not be able to add all the modules that you would like, which leads to another disadvantage of this option for creating a web project - its limited functionality.
3. Non-professional design - you can spend time and thoroughly understand all the technical aspects of developing websites from scratch and writing engines, but to make a professional design you need to be an artist at heart, and this is not given to everyone.
4. Self-created resources, as a rule, have a rather low level of security, because making a safe engine is an order of magnitude more difficult than an ordinary one (deep knowledge is needed in rather specific areas).

Order a website from a professional web studio or from a freelancer

Here, by the way, the big question is who is better to order - from a studio or from a freelancer (you can read the link). The studio will take more, but that implies more professionalism in the performance. Although a freelancer can ideally do the same (or even better), but for less money. In general - how lucky.

Let's note first pros this way of creating your web project:

1. High-quality and unique design - a professional designer from a web studio with a good reputation and portfolio will most likely make you a very high-quality template, which in turn will have a positive effect on and
2. High level of security - professionals will make sure that your resource is very well protected from hacking. In any case, the level of security will be much higher than if you develop a website yourself from scratch.

Now let's consider minuses site made by a professional web studio or a good freelancer:

1. The creation will cost you a pretty penny, and that's putting it mildly. For example, just for the development of a unique design for my blog, a website was requested from me in one very good studio for 80,000 rubles. Well, the complete creation of a site "from and to" will cost you at least twice as much.
2. You will no longer have all the information about your engine and its structure, as it would be if you developed it yourself from scratch. If there is a need for improvement or expansion of the existing functionality, you will have to pay separately for this to the developers.
3. When ordering the creation of a web project in a professional studio, you will need to first draw up a technical assignment, which can take a lot of time and effort to elaborate.

Create a website in a free online constructor

A very attractive option. Free (in the database), simple, fast, clear and understandable even for the humanities. You don't need to buy a domain, or mess with hosting, or invest money. I moved a little with the mouse, corrected the basic theme of the design and publish imperishable things forward. There is only one step left to success and worldwide recognition ...

When I made my first website (at the beginning of the 2000s - this is, in fact, a secret and I have not mentioned it yet, so keep quiet), in fact, online constructors (except for the now deceased) did not exist yet. Therefore, I used a constructor program, where all elements of web pages were typeset using the "grab-and-drag" method. I don’t remember the name of the program, but that website worked perfectly and even successfully solved the tasks assigned to it (though not for long).

Since then a whole scattering of online constructors with a very attractive appearance, easy to use and mostly free (in a database sufficient to create a business card site). Let me list those that are now on hearing:

1. Yucoz- the oldest website builder in Runet, which is part of the structure, which also took Yandex Naroda users under its wing after its closure
2. Moguta.CMS- online store in the cloud
3. Satom.ru- online store in five minutes
4. Yukit- an excellent designer of landing pages, business cards and online stores
5. Google My Business- a free site in just a few minutes, which a priori will be tailored to the requirements of the search giant
6. Wicks- bourgeois constructor adapted for runet

Let's take a look at advantages of creating a website in a similar constructor:

1. Low entry threshold - even a humanist can easily figure out what's what and quickly bungle something digestible and pretty
2. A large number of ready-made designs, which can be changed with mouse clicks or simply dragging and dropping objects
3. All problems and misunderstandings that arise are usually resolved in real time with the help of the technical support service
4. You can get everything for free - space for a website (hosting), a domain name, and technical support

Now we smoothly go to cons:

1. Not everything in online constructors is free, especially if you plan to make a project for a business
2. Ease of work with design and functionality sometimes has a downside - too cluttered (heavy) code of web pages. Therefore, when testing this or that constructor, look at the source code of the pages for any garbage there. If you yourself don’t understand this, then ask a knowledgeable person to do it (you don’t have to ask me).
3. Free domain and hosting have a downside. Domains of the third level are not very well ranked by search engines, so you still have to buy a domain of the second level if you want to be successful. Free hosting can significantly slow down (especially since not only in online constructors), but this can only be determined by trying it.

Make a website on a free or paid CMS (engine)

It is very large and there I tried to fit everything that I have accumulated over the years of working on this engine (and making money). I will not even write something else here, so as not to clutter up your screen.

How to create a Joomla website

But in any way, both in the new and in the old version, the site's capabilities can be multiplied due to the fact that they are distributed both on a free and on a paid basis (again, you need to carefully look at which version of the engine you are downloading the extension for). And, of course, you can find a lot if you wish.

In general, if you have never dealt with content management systems of the type, then I advise you to familiarize yourself with some of the nuances of its work at the link provided. The admin panel will allow you to add articles without having any knowledge of Html and Css, and it will also be possible to make all the necessary changes in the Joomla settings, install extensions, templates, etc.

Extensions can give us great opportunities created by third party developers for this free engine. As I said just above, extensions for Joomla (and they are divided into three parts - modules, components and plugins) are paid and free.

Let's give here a list of free extensions that I consider to be one of the best and necessary when creating websites of various topics and types, but the decision about their use or not, you will already make yourself:

1. - this is a component, it allows you to carry out automatic, which is simply necessary to improve the indexing of your project by search engines. The link to the map that the Xmap allows you to create will need to be added to and.
2. - This component allows you to make your site's links easier for users to understand and more attractive to search engines. JoomSEF allows you to automatically generate page URLs by transliterating article titles. Its plugin will also allow you to set up the correct Title, which is very important for successful self-promotion of a web project.
3. - an amazingly convenient free component for creating your site, literally in one click. I advise you to definitely familiarize yourself with its capabilities on your own - you will not regret it.
4. - photo gallery for Joomla, which allows you to easily create and, or insert several images into an article with the ability to increase them by clicking the mouse. Probably the best free gallery out there.
5. - a component that allows you to make your site look like a blog by adding the ability to comment on articles. There are many settings and rich functionality that you will have to figure out on your own by studying the article given just above the link.
6. - another free and very useful component that allows you to make a blog, directory or portal out of your site, with the ability to easily add articles by your users. Moreover, when creating material, they will be able to add galleries, videos, files for download and much more to articles.
7. - includes a component, modules and plugins for an online store for Joomla. Quite difficult to learn and master, but it allows you to create an online store from scratch. A unique piece of its kind, albeit imperfect.

Building a website is easy - it's harder to make it successful

In general, this article was inspired by letters from readers who asked to write in what order to study the articles published on the site. At first, I did not dare to write it, because there was still not enough materials on all the intricacies of the work, but now, I think, is the time to organize everything that will answer the question - how to create your own website absolutely free.

So first, you should understand that free does not mean that someone will do it for you, you will have to work hard and break your head. Secondly, making an Internet project based on a free engine does not mean that it will turn out to be some kind of fake or toy. To make a project professionally, it is not at all necessary to use a paid CMS. As a confirmation, I want to invite you to familiarize yourself with.

How and where to attract visitors

The engine on which you are trying to create a free site is not so important (you can just as well order its creation for money), and the appearance of your future project is not so important as many novice webmasters think. The main thing that can make your site popular (), relevant and profitable is. It is he who rules the show, but there is no difference between content and content.

When filling a future project, it is very important to take into account the wishes of your future readers, and for this you will definitely have to plunge into the SEO topic (try to make sure that your resource is liked by Yandex and Google). And not just SEO. There is also SMO (social media), from where it is also possible.

Yes, there is another way to create a consistent audience for your project - by making an RSS subscription available. you can learn from the link provided and you can also see how to organize on your project. In addition, it will not be superfluous to get acquainted with the capabilities of the service. Well, you shouldn't ignore the recent trend -. As I already wrote.

Do you want to make your site visited and profitable? Then immediately after you create it, study all the materials available to you on free promotion and promotion.

What needs to be done to optimize the resource

If, after installing the engine, you immediately start writing articles without taking into account search engine optimization, then you will thereby give a huge head start to your competitors or associates. I advise you to first familiarize yourself with the materials on, as well as look at the lessons on the topic (I tried to sort them in the order of priority of study).

From what should be done immediately:

1. (to know)
2. Add it to and
3. connect (to know about visitors, about their actions, about the queries they enter in search engines): I.,
4. Configure a backup on the hosting, or better still manually duplicate ()
5. Connect your site to be aware of when it becomes unavailable and take the necessary steps to restore (call the hoster).
6. When there is free time, and think about on your site.
7. Close external links (leading to other sites) in (add such an attribute to links). For me, the WP-NoRef plugin does this (it is possible that it is already outdated). Well, and customize.
8. Come up with and - an icon visible in Yandex search results and in bookmarks / tabs of browsers.

As you can see, everything is nowhere easier. Surprisingly, many are intimidated by this. Why did it happen? Weird.

Before writing articles (adding content), be sure to compose a semantic core for them, carefully studying and selecting the most suitable ones. I also advise you to read my publication on the topic (it saves a lot of time). And in catching up a useful one (so that your head finally explodes) -.

Earnings on a free website created

In fact, a website created on a free engine can become the main and most (like a website for me). And with the right approach, the time you spent can pay off handsomely and become. But it is not worth counting on the fact that just yesterday the project you made will immediately begin to generate income, because it is unlikely that the tangible moment will come earlier than a year after the launch and constant work on your project.

After I managed to create my first website (on free hosting, for example) and promote it myself to an acceptable level, then I had the idea that it would be nice to somehow compensate for the effort and time spent. In general, the topic of making money comes up at a certain stage in front of each webmaster, and so that you do not have to solve it yourself, I can give you some advice from my own experience.

If you want to make money before the site gains sufficient traffic for the context (somewhere around 500 unique per day) or you cannot step over this milestone at all, then the most suitable for this period would be a careful sale of links from the site. The same method can be advised for the monetization of abandoned, secondary and not very necessary projects, which the hands do not get to spin.

I would recommend starting an exchange like, GoGetLinks and Rota It is also very convenient to work with article exchanges like MiraLinks and WebArtex - there you will be given ready-made articles with unique content, which you just have to place on your project. Remarkably, you will also get paid for this business. This is my favorite way to monetize. Recently also appeared, you can try.

Affiliate programs can also be a very good help in making money. I wrote about it in a separate large publication, which I certainly recommend that you familiarize yourself with. There are affiliate programs for almost any topic. Another thing is that out of a hundred tried it is good if a dozen will produce exhaust. And it's absolutely great if a couple of them turn out to be very profitable. It is possible to find out the names of the winners of this race only by experience.

You can also try banner advertising (it is better from direct advertisers without intermediaries - as the project develops, they will contact you themselves). Well, no one canceled the advertising articles. This service is in demand and quite well paid. Go for it. But just before starting, it would be necessary to gain a little authority, so that there is something to waste later.

You will most likely have to withdraw the first money earned on the site either by electronic (it is written here,), or by electronic, or by. In the last two services, you can attach a plastic card to your account (wallet), with which you can then pay without commissions in stores and on the Internet.

Because at first, your earnings will not be very large, then these funds can not be withdrawn into real life, but used to pay for hosting, Internet, cell phone or anything else that will be allowed to be paid with them.

I hope that in this publication I managed to do the main thing, namely, to answer the questions: how to create your site for free, how to promote it yourself and how to start making money on your project yourself.

Here we have considered far from all the technical and organizational issues that a webmaster has to solve. Therefore, I strongly recommend that you watch the video from the Yandex webmaster, where they are very accessible. website launch basics and possible errors which can nullify all your efforts:

Good luck to you! See you soon on the pages of the blog site

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How to create your own website for free on the Internet from scratch? What is a domain, hosting, CMS platform, website builder, what is the difference between them and how to choose the right one? How to make a profitable website and make money on it?

Hello dear friend! The founders of the business magazine KhiterBober.ru Alexander Berezhnov and Vitaly Tsyganok are in touch.

In this article, we will share our experience in creating websites. Themselves have been creating sites for 3 years. During this time, we independently developed about 30 Internet projects of varying complexity, and started from scratch.

Now we are professionally versed in this topic and hope that our knowledge will help you too.

Having learned how to create websites, you can not only make an Internet resource for yourself or your company, but also, if you wish, build your business on the Web.

So, at this point, you have two options:

1. Read our article to the end in order to independently obtain all the knowledge necessary to create a website.
2. Take a free course on website creation from where you will be "held by the hand" from the moment of idea to website creation. They will show you how to promote it and how to make money on it (both by selling your goods / services, and simply by selling advertising). On the course, you will have a support service + online webinars every day + as a result, you can sign up for a free personal consultation with an analysis of your project.

1.How does the creation of any website begin?

If you are faced with the question of creating a website, then most likely you want to do it for a reason, but for a specific purpose, right? Any project begins with setting a goal, and the site in this situation is no exception.

Let's take a look at what purpose you might have for creating a website.

Globally, all goals can be divided into two categories:

1. Commercial purpose website creation (in 95% of cases);
2. Non-commercial purpose website creation.

Since the vast majority of the site is created for commercial purposes, it is these sites that will be discussed in the article.

The commercial purposes of creating a website include:

• sale of goods and services;
• personal and political PR;
• informing the target audience in order to make a profit in the future;
• creating a positive image for a commercial company;
• creation of barter websites;
• free development of Internet projects as a bonus to services already provided (goods sold);
• production of sites to order.

Non-commercial purposes mean the creation of a website for charitable organizations or a group of individuals who will use this website as a platform for communication and exchange of content (photos, videos, messages) and information among themselves.

We define the tasks that the site should solve

The type of site is selected based on the tasks that it must perform.

For example, if you want to trade on the Internet and sell products through a website, then you need an online store.

Or maybe you are a private designer, lawyer or teacher. Then you need a different type of site, it is called a "business card site", so that potential customers can learn more about your services, prices for them, see your portfolio, customer reviews and find contacts for communication.

Again, it is on the basis of the tasks that you choose the type of site that you will be working on.

Tasks that the site helps to solve:

• create a stream of targeted visitors for your business;
• help process applications from potential customers;
• increase the awareness of the company or personal brand of the site creator;
• create confidence from potential buyers;
• provide detailed information in text, audio and video formats;
• enable the user to download the file (price list, presentation);
• automate the company's business process in working with clients, for example, automatically calculate the interest on a loan "online".

Below we have described the most popular types of sites, highlighted their features and distinctive features.

2. Types of sites

Dear reader, we draw your attention to the fact that all types of sites have similar features and this division is very arbitrary.

However, all specialists in the creation of sites or the so-called webmasters operate with these terms (names of types of sites) in their work and you need to understand what this is about.

Many are interested in how to create a website from scratch for free yourself. As practice shows, it is difficult to find a resource on the Internet that fully discloses this topic.

Before we start our conversation, I would like to draw your attention to the following:

1. The opinion that creating a website is a simple task that can be quickly solved is partly truthful. With the help of various content management systems (CMS), you have created a project in a few minutes. You need to understand that deploying a site on a domain will work out quickly, but filling it up can take several months.
2. Some people believe that building a website is not easy. This point of view has a right to life. It all depends on the type of project. If we are talking about a simple resource, it will take little time and effort to create. When it comes to a serious project, everything changes dramatically.

Even a schoolboy can create his own resource. But if you want to become a real professional in this area, you have to work hard. Start by learning programming languages ​​and mastering special software.

1. "HTML" is the foundation. Be sure to master this language. He is the starting point on the road to success.
2. "CSS". You've probably heard of design. Design is unthinkable without CSS.
3. JavaScript. Using this language, they write a variety of scripts, dynamic and beautiful projects.
4. "PHP". There are many examples of PHP usage. It is used to write scripts for user registration, receiving and processing information from forms, searching through the portal, and entire CMSs.
5. MySQL. Database software.
6. "XML". Not directly related to the development of sites. Focused on the implementation of complex corporate networks.

To speed up the process, you can use the popular content management system. After that, it remains to place the resource on the network and carry out the promotion.

Video tips for choosing a domain

Step-by-step instructions for creating a website from scratch

First, choose the topic of the project. It is better when the theme is liked by the creator himself. Post only unique texts. If they are copied from other sites, there may be problems with indexing and applicable law.

Instructions

1. Register for hosting. I recommend paid.
2. Register a domain. In the domain control panel, link it to the hosting by registering the DNS server.
3. Choose CMS.
4. Go to hosting, create a database, install the engine via FTP.
5. Set up CMS, choose a template, install additional plugins.
6. Submit multiple articles. Do internal optimization.
7. Improve your design. Try to make the resource attractive to your visitors and easy to use.
8. If you know how to write essays, you're lucky. Otherwise, you will have to use the services of copywriters to write texts.

If you show a little perseverance and perseverance, after a certain time a full-fledged resource will appear on the Internet.

We select hosting

1. Think about the content of the project. Pick a topic that you understand. For example, housewives can create a culinary project and publish recipes. Make sure the chosen topic is interesting to users.
2. If your budget is tight, opt for a free engine. A free CMS WordPress is suitable for almost any need.
3. Users visit a project looking for information, so ads, pop-up banners, and overly flamboyant designs are annoying and distracting.
4. The visitor should be able to navigate easily and find the desired pages.
5. The site must have a feedback form. With its help, visitors will be able to leave wishes.
6. Do not overload the resource with scripts and graphics. This will have a bad effect on the speed of loading pages.
7. Be sure to optimize your project for different screen resolutions. Test the optimization in different browsers.

Self-service website creation on CMS WordPress

WordPress is a free content management system. The main advantages are simple management, multitasking, free updates, ease of connecting additional modules and expanding the site's capabilities.

Step-by-step action plan

1. Choose the topic of the project. You can devote your site to parenting, New Year's dresses, fishing, travel, cars, hobbies.
2. Based on your industry, come up with a domain name - a title. The title should correspond to the chosen topic.
3. Choose a hosting. It stores the resource files.
4. Create a database with a name and password. Write down the information.
5. Upload WordPress to hosting. This can be done through an FTP client or through additional free hosting services.
6. After starting the administrative panel, enter the database and password. Then: title, username, strong password and email.
7. The platform is installed. Proceed with the design. Ready-made free templates from the WordPress repository will help.
8. Publish text materials, upload pictures and videos.

Video tutorial on installing WordPress

Even a child will create their own project based on the WordPress platform. If you are looking for the easiest way to create websites, check out this option.

Free ways to create websites

Website development can be ordered from a special company. However, the services are expensive. Many people know this well, so they are interested in self-development of the site. This is real. The main thing is to choose a quality free hosting.

1.uCoz. A well-known service allows you to post projects for free. My first project was created on the basis of uCoz.

2. narod.yandex.ru - the second option is no longer relevant. Russian search giant has transferred hosting of Narod to uCoz.

Disadvantages of free hosting

1. If you intend to publish informational or personal articles on the pages of your portal, a free site is quite enough. However, free hosting is not suitable for developing projects focused on selling goods.
2. Free website builders make money from advertising. Consequently, there will be third-party advertisements on your project pages.
3. If you can place your banner ads, know that the best ones won't get them. There is an advertisement for the service.
4. A project hosted on a free site is difficult and difficult to transfer to another hosting.

How to create a website for making money

Good money is brought in by high-quality informational websites. For example, you can make a portal about New Year's toys, sports, psychology, nutrition, recipes.

Requirements for sites for earning

1. Publish only interesting and relevant articles, news, photos and videos. They are responsible for answering users' questions and solving their problems.
2. The resource should have a convenient structure and beautiful design. Interesting articles are more important than design, but the user should be comfortable reading them. The key to a successful project is perfect usability, correct menu design, pleasant colors.
3. Strive to make your audience look forward to new content.

8 steps to creating a profitable website

1. Pick one particular highly popular topic.
2. Decide on the engine. Ideal for creating websites for making money on the Internet CMS WordPress.
3. Choose a hosting. Choose the site as carefully as possible.
4. Register a domain. The name of the portal should be easy to remember and sonorous. Users should easily type it in the address bar of the browser.
5. Install the engine and customize the theme.
6. After installing the CMS, start publishing articles. Remember, the content of the resource is its core, which can raise popularity to the skies. Publish only interesting, unique, varied, and high-quality articles.
7. Promotion. Even if there is interesting text on the pages of the resource, no one will see it without promotion. Engage your audience through a variety of advertising mechanisms.
8. After 5-10 months of continuous work, the site will bring the first money.

Do not forget that even the most beautiful site will not make money without high-quality promotion and internal optimization.

What is a portal

First of all, you need to decide on the definition itself. I believe Wikipedia is the most accurate description of this kind of site. Enter “Web Portal” into Google and read.

In general, this is a site where you can not only read publications, exchange comments or buy something. There is much more you can do on the portal. I believe that examples are indispensable here, so here is the first example - 2ip.ru.

If you go to the site, you can find there a lot of useful services that allow you to find out your ip-address, check the cms of the site, find out what resources are on the same IP, etc. For all these tools to work, someone had to implement them. Accordingly, this was done by the team of programmers who developed the portal.

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In addition, if you look at the top menu, then useful services are far from the only possibilities, there is a rating of providers, a forum and much more. In the case of 2ip, it is clear that this is an IT portal, that is, narrowly thematic, not for all people in a row, but only for those who are interested in sites, software and the Internet in general.

There are also so-called general portals where people with different interests are registered. As a rule, the total number of users here can exceed the 1 million mark. One example is the spaces.ru mobile network, which has existed since 2007.

Why can we say that this is a portal? Well, think for yourself:

It is possible to keep a personal diary

You can create communities of interest and communicate in them

There is a huge warehouse of files, any user can add their own files

Own forum and chat

Ability to add a user to friends or subscribe to them

Alert log and news feed

Online games, the ability to check the weather and even meet someone

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Actually, the presence of such and similar services clearly shows how rich the functionality of such sites is. As we already understood, portals can be public (general) and narrowly targeted.

How to create a portal

As you can imagine, creating such a resource is very different from creating a blog or even an online store. In the case of the last two types of sites, everything is much simpler, because the implementation of any additional features is not required and you follow the standard path. In the case of a portal, it is not enough just to think over and draw a design, make it up and put it on wordpress, you also need to implement the capabilities that will be on it, and this can only be done with the help of programming.

Right now I see 2 normal options for creating a portal:

1. Gather a team of specialists and start working together. First, here you need to decide on the idea. Secondly, think over exactly what tools will be on the site, its capabilities and structure. After that, you need to find people who are ready to support you in the development. Today there are communities of freelancers in the field of it, where you can assemble a team for a project.

You will need a programmer, layout designer, designer, administrator, and if the project is large, then many more people. And naturally, all these people will not work for free. At least for a part of the profit that your portal will bring in the future.

2. Order the development of the portal from professionals. Today there are large companies on the Internet that offer this service. At the same time, you do not need to interfere with the process at all, you just need to pay for the development and it will start successfully. What is the cost of the portal? Depending on the complexity, from 100 thousand rubles to many millions. For example, if you want to make a portal like Mail.ru, then it will obviously cost you many millions.

It is also worth noting that the money will have to be spent not only on the development, but also on the further life of such a site. For example, renting a dedicated server, paying people who will work on the portal, paying for various services and tools that are necessary for its operation.

As you can see, creating a portal is a very serious business. In fact, this is a large Internet business that can bring a lot, but you also need to invest a lot in it.

How to create an Internet portal yourself and is it possible?

Yes, in general it is possible, but with some caveats:

On average, a team of specialists spends 2-3 months on the implementation of a medium-sized project. So think for yourself how much you will create such a project if you do everything yourself, even if you consider that the project will be small.

Nevertheless, today it is easier to create a portal if you use the ready-made developments of other web programmers. For example, today, often to add a forum to sat, you just need to install an additional module on satt, and if you want to add some service, you can use ready-made open solutions.

The fact is that today tens of thousands of different scripts and extensions are available for download, which add one or another opportunity to you, so you can piece together your mini-portal.

To implement such projects, I recommend that you learn the PHP language, it is on it that most web applications are created today. On our site you can find more than a dozen PHP courses that will allow you to independently implement many interesting things: create a registration and authorization system, a guest book, a product catalog, and much more. Here are these lessons.

Well, I will end on this. I hope you understand how to create such a resource and what is needed for this. See you on other pages of our site!

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Do you doubt whether it is worth investing in the development of a mobile application? You can do it yourself and absolutely free. You may end up with a test case that is useful for evaluating the effectiveness of a mobile strategy. And if you try, you will make a decent mobile application that will become the main tool for online interaction with owners of smartphones and tablets.

Is it worth making your own mobile application

Costs. If you don't take the word for it, here are some facts:

• According to Flurry Analytics and comScore, smartphone and tablet owners use the browser only 14% of the total time they use the device. And they spend 86% of their time on different applications.
• The installed application is your direct channel of communication with the consumer. Just think: you don't need to spend money on advertising or wait for a person to find you using Yandex. It remains to maintain the functionality the user needs and provide him with relevant content.
• The number of purchases made using tablets and smartphones is growing both on the Internet in general and on the Internet. According to the marketing agency Criteo, already in 2016 more than half of online transactions on the Russian Internet will be made using mobile devices.

If you prefer, the app is a mobile browser that only opens your site. When would a user install such an Internet browser? Only if he is interested in your product or information. Therefore, remember: the customer who installed the application is a loyal and ready to buy representative of the target audience.

In this case, is it worth the risk and offering loyal customers DIY applications, rather than custom-made programs for Android and iOS made by professionals? Let's figure it out.

When can you create an application yourself

Do you remember what website visitors need? They come from the content or functionality of the resource. People want to get information, buy something, see and comment on photos of friends, and so on. Mobile app users want the same. They are looking for information or doing any kind of transaction.

Do you remember when a business can make a website on its own? That's right, when there is still no money to cooperate with professionals, but there is time and desire to deal with WordPress or Joomla. The same situation is with applications. Self-created programs for iOS and Android can be roughly compared to sites on "engines" with open source.

You don't have to register to get started. Click the Create Now button on the main page or select the Create App menu in the upper right corner of any page of the service.

Choose the appropriate app template. If we are talking about a content project, you may be interested in the following options:

• Manual. This template allows you to make a guide program.
• Blog. The app will help your blog audience read new notes from their smartphone or tablet screen.
• Website. The template converts the site into an application.
• Pages. Using this template, you can convert any content into an application with simple functionality.
• News. The template allows you to create an aggregator application for industry or regional news.
• Page. The template converts offline content, such as an e-book, into an application.
• VK Page and Facebook Page. Create an application that allows you to follow the updates of open groups on Vkontakte and Facebook.
• YouTube. Use the template to promote your YouTube channel.

How to create a blog app

Use the Blog template. Enter the URL of your blog or RSS feed in the provided field. Choose a color for the title of your notes.

Please enter a name for the application.

Add a description.

Choose a standard or add a custom icon. A suitable image size is 512 by 512 pixels.

Click the Create App button to create the boot file. After that, you need to register in the system. Confirm registration and go to your personal account. Here you can install the application on your mobile device, publish it on Google Play and the Amazon App Store. The system also offers a monetization option. If you use this feature, ads will be displayed in the application.

Check how the app works on your mobile device. On a tablet, the program should display a list of blog posts in title and announcement format.

In your AppsGeyser account, you can monitor the number of installations, create push notifications, publish the app in stores, monetize the program with ads, and edit the app.

Use the editor to add text, images, videos or links. To add a photo to the program, upload it to the Imgur hosting and paste the link into the appropriate field.

After editing the content, enter a name for the application, add a description and an icon. Click the Create App button. After creating the boot file, install it on your mobile device and check if it works.

Please note that most mobile devices block the installation of applications from unknown sources by default. If a user downloads a program from your site or from the App Builder site, when they try to install it, they will see a warning about a security breach. Some customers will probably refuse to install the program.

8 constructors similar to AppsGeyser

If the AppsGeyser universal constructor did not suit you, pay attention to similar services:

• AppsMakerStore. With the help of the service, you can create applications of different types: from programs for Ecommerce to solutions for content projects. The constructor makes apps for iOS and Android. The service interface is Russified. For beginners, there is an informative guide to using the constructor. The service is paid.
... Free Android app builder. You can publish your created programs on Google Play and monetize with ads.
• Appery. Paid builder for creating universal apps. You can evaluate its functionality using a free trial period.
• Good Barber. With this service, you can develop Android and iOS applications. The constructor is paid, the cost of using is 16 USD per month.

Most of the offered services have an English-language interface. If you are uncomfortable working with constructors in English, choose platforms with russified content.

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Don't go from one extreme to another. With the help of the proposed services, it is really possible to create workable functional applications. The resulting programs can be used to solve various problems: from providing online trading to distributing content and educating the audience. Apps created in the constructor can be published on Google Play and the App Store, edited, monetized using ads or paid installs.

Remember, it's not enough to just create an app. It is necessary to invest a lot of effort in its promotion. Contact us if you want to entrust this work to professionals who know exactly what to do to attract new users.

Do not overestimate the services offered. Their obvious drawback is stereotyped. It's about both design and functionality of programs. In addition, access to platforms with decent functionality is paid. Which is better: to pay once for the developers' work or pay for many years to the owners of the constructor? Count yourself.

And one more thing: if you do not have time to create a mobile application on your own, please contact our company. We are developing mobile applications, and.

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