So You Want To Be Web Designer?

So you are sitting at your comfy chair, browsing online, being bored and then you stumble upon some amazing, beautifully designed website. At first, you enjoy browsing it, then you bookmark it so you can come back and enjoy some more. But did you ever wondered how those websites are built?

Well if you are reading this post, you are probably wondering now if it’s hard or easy to build websites. Well, becoming a successful website designer is not such a simple task to do. There are few important things that you should keep in mind. Let’s talk about some.

Many people say that you must be good at website programming or learn programming language known as HTML which stands for Hypertext Markup Language. The truth is, you don’t need to know HTML to build website, not even a little bit. Logically if you want your website to have many customized options and features, then yeah, you should get yourself to learn some coding in HTML language, but otherwise, is not really necessary to build some basic looking website. There are websites like Wix or Weebly that offer basic drag and drop system to build your desired website without knowing HTML.

The main point is that website programming can be done without actual programming and that there are more important things you should reconsider before you start with building your own website. First of all, you need a really good idea. Take a piece of paper and write down everything you want to make on your website. Draw how many pages you want to have, imagine and draw what content should look like on those pages. What will your website represent or talk about, how your homepage is going to look and all other details. Make sure you think about everything before starting to build your website. Once you are done with salvaging your ideas, it’s time to turn them into a real website.

Most drag and drop website offer already installed themes and templates, but you can design your own themes or pay someone to design them for you. This is very important if you are strict about your website design and you already have picture of it in your head. Once you got your template installed you will need to create pages with all required features you previously thought of. This is the process that could actually take the most of your time. Depending of website, it could be built in few hours or in few months.

Once you’ve finished with building your website, you will need to publish it online. For that, you will need to get domain and host. One of most famous services for that is GoDaddy. You will get info from them like ftp server account where you will upload actual files of your website. Once you upload your files to ftp server, your website will be online and accessible from any device around the world that is connected to internet.There are some extra stuff you could do to make your website more popular, stuff like SEO to improve your website’s Google ranking.

You can also advertise your website with services like Google’s AdSense.

So there you go, now you know some basics about website programming; come up with idea and go make something awesome!