How to build your own website Step 1: website planning

How can I Build your own website What about? Although the method is simple, we should have a website planning at the beginning.

What is website planning?

Literally speaking, website planning is to have an overall plan, planning and arrangement for the website.

The planning includes the theme, structure, content and update of the website.

How to do website planning?

Website planning should be you Build website The first step to consider.

Purpose of website construction

Self built website First, you should understand why you want to build a website. that is Purpose of website construction : Is it to record your life or work, or do you want to make profits through the website, so that you can have a source of part-time income. Or to establish a website for the company to promote its own brand and products.

Site Content Classification

Classification of website content: After determining the purpose of the website, it is necessary to have a general classification of website content. If you just record your own life and work, you are more casual about classification. If you want to Create a profitable website , then the classification of websites should be carefully considered.

For example, if you want to build a website for selling Chinese prickly ash, the content of your website should focus on Chinese prickly ash instead of writing articles about good cars.

You can refer to how the website makes money Previous articles 。

Consideration of website domain name and space

After determining the purpose and content of the website, you can start to consider the domain name and space of the website.

You need to determine whether the users of your website are mainly domestic users or foreign users. If most of them are domestic users, both the domain name and space are recommended to purchase domestic services, but they need to be filed, but in the long run, the user experience is better than using foreign space.

If you want to build a foreign trade website, it must be more convenient to choose foreign domain names and hosts.

For the recommendation of domain names and hosts, please refer to the articles that my father has published before:

How to select domain names for novice websites

VPS recommendations that are stable and suitable for novices

Selection of website building procedures

There are many website programs on the Internet, including free and paid website building programs. How should you choose?

My father's suggestion is that if you don't have special needs, you should use WordPress, an open source website program. At present, 1/3 of the websites on the Internet are built by WordPress.

Through WordPress, you can build a blog website, information website, enterprise website, CMS website, shopping website, book website, mall website and other websites you want.

Tutorial of personal website building

After you have made these website plans, you can start to buy domain names and space to build your own website. Here are some personal tutorials on how to build websites shared by dads.

For details, please refer to Steps to build your own website This article has a detailed explanation of the steps to be taken to build a website from scratch.