How To Create a Website
Learn how to create a website with the most complete and professional interactive guide
You may be thinking to yourself - is it even possible for me to create a responsive website by myself?
Well, let’s take a look back at what we had to go through not too long ago after taking some photographs. We had to send the film for developing and printing, without even having the option of viewing the photographs before they were printed.
The same happened if you needed to create a website. It would have cost a lot of money to pay someone else to design and program the site for you, and then you would have needed some training on how to keep it updated.
Today, everything has to be done now, immediately. Everything is shared and happening in real time; everything is simple. If you’re running a business, a website or a portfolio you need to be able to do all of that, and more.
But how are you going to be able to do this?
In our next article we’re going to answer the question that brought you here in the first place. How to create a website?
Be assured that after reading this article you’ll have all the knowledge and tools at your disposal to create your own beautiful and responsive website.
So let’s get started!
Step 1 – Register for free to Simbla
To start creating your website, you first need to register to Simbla’s website builder. Registration is simple and quick, and all you need to do is to fill in a few details and you can get started. With Simbla, that’s all. You don’t need to purchase any third-party hosting service and you won’t need to install anything.
Registration to Simbla will take less than a minute of your time! If that’s too long for you, just log in with Facebook in just one click!
Step 2 – Choose your building method
After registration you will be asked to choose one of two options:
Select Template – Choosing this option will take you to a new page where you can pick any template you wish for your website out of Simbla's huge, well-designed template library. After picking a template you will be sent to the website editor where you will be able to customize your website.
Website wizard – Simbla has worked hard to bring you the best website wizard out there.
The wizard will build your site for you while asking you to pick-and-choose the basic structure and colors for your site. It’s a quick and unique tool that will save you days of work compared to other platforms.
That’s it! In just 2 simple steps your website is nearly done!
*If you wish to start with a blank page, choose "Blank" from the template library.
Step 3 – choose your style, make it your own
Want to know How to create a responsive website which has dynamic styling options? want to be able to set and change your website style in one click? Sounds like a dream?
Well, with Simbla’s “Theme Maker” you will be able to choose from a huge collection of “themes” and edit them as you wish. A theme is a set of rules applied to your site that will affect all aspects of your site. Changing the fonts, icons, colors, proportions and more can’t get any easier than this.
You can make your site your own and edit all parts of the site with Theme Maker. You will have full control on each block and be able to choose the block style from four different designs that you can set from A,B,C and D.
Simbla supports CSS, HTML and JAVASCRIPT code so you can go wild and add whatever's on your mind!
Step 4 – Edit your content and multimedia
Now that you’ve created your website’s structure and style, it’s time to give it some soul.
After carefully writing your content it’s time to add it to your site. Simbla allows you to simply edit and paste text that appears in your site as default. If you want to add additional text or different headlines, simply click on Pro and drag-and-drop them freely.
You can do exactly the same with images and videos. You can simply pick a new image from Simbla’s huge library or upload your own.
Feel free to make any changes, such as changing the icons, editing forms and image carousels. The sky is truly the limit when it comes to creating a website with Simbla’s great editing options.
If you wish to connect your website to website applications, visit our online database builder guide.
Step 5 – Publish your site, connect your domain
It’s not all about how to create a website. You also need to make it easy for your clients to access your site. So after building your beautiful website, it’s time to get your domain and join the Internet. But what is a domain, you might well ask. Well, a domain is the name you give to your website (www.domain.com).
Domain prices are varied (from $5-$1000 and even more), due to the popularity of a given name.
So try to think of a name that best suits your business, but also one that’s not already taken.
Moreover, there’s a huge number of different providers for domain hosting services, and they differ on the quality of security.
Make sure to choose anti ddos host for your website to avoid security problems in future.
After completing all these steps, it’s now time to check your site and see whether it’s really how you imagined it to be.
Change over to Preview then click “Publish” to bring your site to life; you’ll receive a temporary domain until you can connect to your own domain. Now click “View Live” to see your final result as a complete website.
After checking that everything is working as it should, it’s time to connect your domain. The process is simple and quick, and includes adding an IP address to your domain host and adding the domain to your Simbla site.
Click here for the full guide on how to connect a domain.
Step 6 –SEO and marketing - get your site promoted!
Last but not least, SEO!
What is SEO, you may ask? SEO stands for “Search engine optimization”, it’s all about getting your site to the first place in the search ranking.
With Simbla you will get access to lots of tools that will help you. You’ll be able to add meta-data, heading elements, google analytic support, 301 redirecting, sitemap generator and plenty more.
Here are 5 top SEO tips from Simbla’s professionals:
1. Make an AdWords research to find what your customers are looking for.
2. Create a website with rich content – the more the merrier!
3. Generate a sitemap to help Google understand the structure of your site better.
4. Start a link-building campaign - links, links and more links! The more links you get to your site from other sites, the stronger your site will be.
5. Advertise on social network media - make it go viral!
That's it!
Now you know all you need to know about how to create a website, and as you can see it's not such a hard thing to do as it sounds. All you need are the right tools, the right design and the right promotion. You’ll get all of these and more with the Simbla website creation platform.
Now it's time to create your responsive website and start getting the word out there!