Creating a website is much easier than you think it is if you know the right tools to use! If you have no coding experience and want something fast and easy to maintain, you can try using a website builder.
Website builder is a powerful web publishing platform. It lets you make your own website in minutes by dragging elements and dropping them to the desired location. Once you are satisfied with what you have created, you can click the publish button to put your content to public.
The website builder tools are good for beginners, because they start with pre-designed templates, and they make it easy to create a page even with no HTML experiences.
- Pre-Built Templates - Website builder comes with a selection of pre-designed web templates. So, you don't need to spend money and time to design your site. Creating a design using site builder is simply a matter of choosing the appearance you want and replacing the placeholder contents (e.g. stock images, dummy texts, etc) with your own images and text info.
- Step-by-Step Wizard - Website builder provides a step-by-step wizard, that takes you through the entire site building process. Starts from selecting the right template for your site to the final stage of publishing your website to the web.
- Easy-to-Use Editor - Website builder has a Microsoft Word like web page editor. Editing web pages using site builder is pretty much similar to writing documents using Microsoft Word. No HTML experiences needed.
- Auto Publishing - Website builder automatically uploads your website files and graphics to the web server. The process of uploading a website can be frustrating for newcomers at first. Site builder has made this process as simple as one single click. To simply put, no FTP upload is needed to publish your content online.
What are my options?
Why DotEasy?
I often recommend DotEasy because they offer both website builder and other open source website building scripts such as WordPress to create your website. If you are a newbie, you can use website builder to jumpstart your website. If you have some coding experience and would like to have more control over your website, you can choose WordPress to start building your website. WordPress offers many free (or paid) themes and plugins to give your website more functionalities.
All DotEasy web hosting plans include a FREE domain name registration.
Sign up with DotEasy Web Hosting, starting at USD$3.75/mo which includes website builder tools, WordPress installation option, free domain name registration, and domain email accounts.
Website.com
If you are new to creating website and are not certain with what features you will need, definitely give Website.com a visit. First of all, Website.com offers a free plan option. Simply sign up a free account with a valid email address or Google/Facebook account to get started. Based on my testing, many of their features are available in their free plan.
Their free plan gives you a free subdomain URL (e.g. yourname.website2.me). If you want a professional domain name for your website (this is especially important for business website), you may consider upgrading to their premium paid plan, which includes a free domain name, premium support, and remove ad banner option.
Sign up with Website.com website builder to create your free website.
