What Is the Easiest Way to Build a Website?
January 30, 2008
What I share here may not be the only answer to building a website fast, but it is what works for me the best.
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I have been a webmaster since the year 2000 and I have tried all the following ways to build websites:
- Using FrontPage Express - that was how I started and I believe it was true for most others as it was the first free way
- Tried using several HTML authoring programs which I could not recall their names. I did that because I found FrontPage Express produces too many redundant codes which are totally unnecessary.
- Having a hard time finding a single program that creates a page with very clean HTML codes, I switched to several HTML text editor which allows me to construct websites from scratch with HTML codes only. My favorite one, the one I am still using for editing webpages occasionally, is Author Smith’s Top Dawg HTML Editor which allows me to produce a set of HTML codes with a few clicks - his website is no longer available
- Creating a website from scratch using HTML source codes only is very time-consuming. Then I find an FrontPage alternative called XSitePro which is a WYSIWYG offline HTML authoring program that has search engine optimization (SEO), site uploading and many other features built in it. I still use it for designing my website template only as I prefer a completely online solution.
- I tried several online builders, including the one we provide to our cPanel web hosting customers, but most them require that I use Micorsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) to be able to use it - I am a fan of the Firefox browser!
- What do I use the mostly often? You guess it right, WordPress (WP) blog script, the one I am using right now - what you are reading is served by the WP blog script! It is very easy to use and it is always online - I can use it wherever I go and I just need to enter the admin login info to be able to use it. What about SEO of the WP blogs? I use this WP plugin to optimize my blog for search engines.
- There are other online scripts I use to construct a website, like Joomla script that you can install automatically on your website from cPanel’s Fantastico or DirectAdmin’s Installatron script autoinstaller. The following is a link to a website I built for Heromin Machinery Canada Ltd using the Joomla script:
However, I still like WP the most. With its “Write and Manage Page” function in WP, I can construct a page and then it automatically appears in the menu area. I can set the Home page as the default page, just like any of the regular websites out there, rather than the most recent post or 5-something most recent posts listed on the default home page.
P.S. Avoid using HTML frames in building any website as it is definitely a SEO no-no!
What is your easiest way of building websites? Share it below in the comment area…
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I am a father of three kids with my dear wife Margaret. I started internet marketing since 2000 and now have gained enough experience and technical know-hows to share with you. Enjoy!
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