Building a website for dummies

Building a website yourself?

So you have some great ideas, maybe your starting a business, maybe your into affiliate marketing or maybe you just want to create a site for your family… what ever the reason, you want a website. You now are considering, do i pay someone to build it for me, or is there a way to build it myself? What is the cost, and time consumtion to build a site myself as opposed to pay someone?

Building a website is easy

First of all, let me just say. Building a site is like… writing a book, building a house, building a plane, or a number of other things. I can write a kids book with 15 pages and a bunch of pictures in a few hours, might not be the greatest but it’ll be alright. I’ve built a “house” or as we called it as a kid a fort… was fun and took some time but as a kid with the tools I had access too it turned out really Awesome! Simplest way to build a plane is out of paper… it’s still a plane.

The point is, a website is just a site that you can pull up online. It’s how much time and effort do you want to put into that will make it either really amazing like that 50 million dollar mansion, or is it just something that more or less resembles a kids fort. One other major point to make here is, as a kid I didn’t have access to all the tools I do as an adult.

If I am willing to spend $10 dollars a year for my own domain name as opposed to using someone else’s and getting a free subdomain. My site is going to look better.

If I can pay $25 dollars a year then I can use a really great little tool to edit my photos called picnik.com which is super simple and easy to use. Or I’ll surf around and maybe find one that is a little more complicated but totally free called sumopaint.com.

Do I want to spend money on hosting?

If it’s a business website, it’s not even an option. You have too. You don’t want to SEO (search engine optimization) or optimize for the search engine crawlers someone one else’s site.  you have two different but similar things that confuse a ton of people. WordPress.com which will either give you a subdomain ((www.MYSUBDOMAIN.wordpress.com)) or custom ending ((www.wordpress.com/CUSTOMENDING))

Tools to build a website

WORDPRESS, PICNIK, HOSTGATOR,

these three things and you are really good to set up a GREAT foundation.

Why you should build your own website

you want to build a huge business, you need to approach it same way you would building a wall.

Check out this video, at the end he starts getting into some “the Secret” BS and talking meta physics and all that garbage but he does say something I total agree with.

It’s impossible to build a wall, but you can lay one brick as perfect as a brick can be laid, and then do it again and again.

You can’t build a Great website! it’s impossible. BUT!!! you can write a great article, as good as an article can be written and then repeat. If you had written one article a week on a variety of topics over the past 3 years how many articles would you have written? How much traffic would your site attract?

I have to say, you can build a good site, you NEED TO BUILD a good site… I’m just trying to compare something here.

3 multiplied by 52 is 156 articles.  COME ON MAN! you can do this.

I made $245 dollars in one month because of affiliate marketing from this site. Not sure why or how. But it got me to believe it can be done.