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The Basic Steps When Creating A Website

Whether you are telling your service online, or simply want to provide some information about your business and your contact details, having a website is almost essential. It's a good idea to think about what you hope to achieve with your upper cervical website before you start creating one. Researching your competitors' websites can help you get a clear idea of what may work best for you.

To create a website, you need to follow these basic steps.


Choose What Platform Your Website Is Built On

The first thing you need to do is choose what website platform to build your website on. There are many different CMS )content management systems0 to choose from and choosing the right platform is a top priority. You don’t want to start building your site on a CMS platform to find out that it’s totally wrong for you and your site. There’s a load of free website building platforms that you could use, but these free websites aren’t great for the long term. You’re restricted to using their own hosting and their own sub-domain.

Domain Name & Web Hosting

Before you can start creating your website, you’re going to need to take care of the basics. The two most important components to get your site up and running is a domain name and web hosting service. Without these two things, your visitors will have no way to access your site.

Domain Name

The domain name refers to the address that people will use to visit your site. It’s what your site will be identified as moving forward. Needless to say, it plays a bit part in defining your brand, so it’s important to choose a domain that represents you or your business well.

Web Hosting

Web hosting is where your site is actually going to be stored. Hosting companies have large data centers filled with servers. When you purchase a hosting plan, part of one of those servers is dedicated to your site. It’s where you will be putting on your files, copy, images, and anything else pertaining to your web creation.

Select your favorite template.

Creating a website with a website builder starts with a template. Look through the different options available to find one that’s a close match to what you have in mind for your site.


Don’t just think about the one you like the look of the best—you can easily change a lot of the visual elements of the template you choose. Think about which one has the closest structure and layout to the website you want to create. That will make bringing it in line with your unique vision easier.

Choose your color scheme.

So much of creating a beautiful website as a business owner or blogger will depend on the colors you choose. You want to be consistent with the colors you use across the website—if someone clicks from a page that’s green and blue to one that’s red and black, it creates a confusing experience. And you want to make sure you stick with colors that look good together.


Creating a color scheme as one of your first steps will help you achieve both those goals. You’ll know which colors to stick with for your backgrounds, fonts, images, and various page elements.

Decide on your website’s pages and organization.

Another important factor in keeping your website effective is making sure it’s intuitive. You don’t want to overload your visitors with too much information on one page—that’s both confusing and bad for SEO. So figure out how to divide everything you want to share into a number of pages that are each devoted to a manageable amount of information.


When you have an idea of the different pages you’ll create, think about how to best organize them in a way that will make it easy for your visitors to find what they’re interested in. Figure out a few main categories your different pages fit into. These will probably be your main menu items.

Run it by someone else to get a second opinion.

When you spend time working on a website, you get too close to it to see it the way someone else will. Before you push it out into the larger world, find a friend you trust to be a set of fresh eyes for you. They may be able to spot minor errors or let you know if the navigation is a little confusing.


Listen to their feedback and make any changes they recommend that you trust will make the website better.


Creating a website is exciting. Seeing something beautiful you created yourself is certain to instill pride and give you a sense of accomplishment. Now you can start reaching people with your message and working toward your goals.