Website development on your own

Is it possible to develop a site on your own? What is better: website development on your own or development of a website in a web design studio?

The main stages of website development on your own are: to work out the concept of the site and exclusive design; to write all necessary program codes; to register the domain name of your site; to place a ready site on the hosting. But are they as simple as it seems at first sight?

The first stage is development of the site concept. If you have not worked out the concept of the site and start from development of "nice pictures" further development of the site will show that the structure of the site does not fit these "pictures". In this case you will have to change and supplement the initial project. That is why it is so necessary to think out the structure of site pages, navigation etc at the very beginning.

During website development on your own you do not have to prove or explain to anybody the choice of this or that decision. But the responsibility for the result also lies on the shoulders of the developer only, and you will have yourself to blame if something is wrong.

Of course you can use free ready-made templates for development of website design or even buy a couple of templates. But a site of really high quality is impossible without unique design which has no analogs throughout the whole World Wide Web. It means that you should develop such design yourself: from first paper sketches to a completely ready html-template.

By the way, for development of a dynamic site on your own you will need CMS - content management system. That is why before making up an html-template it is necessary to choose the CMS for your future site. There are both free (Drupal, Joomla!, Wordpress) and paid CMS (DLE, 1C-Bitrix etc).

If you have chosen a CMS for developing a website on your own you will not have to write program codes manually. The main functional facilities that you may need while working with the site are already realized in the CMS. But you will have to write non-standard web applications and modules additionally or search for the ready decisions on the Internet.

The next stage is registration of the domain name. To register a desired domain name in a certain domain zone you should first make certain that this domain name is free. A special service whois will help to resolve this task.

After you have chosen the domain name you should address yourself either straight to the official domain names registrar or to the mediators (for instance, hosters). Many hosters offer the service of free domain name registration if the contract for the hosting is concluded for half a year of more.

If you want to place your site on a free hosting such as ucoz.ru or narod.ru you do not have to register a domain name separately. Such services themselves provide the user any domain name which is not yet occupied by other users of the system. But it is a third-level domain name and the service of connecting your own domain is as a rule paid.

The impossibility of using scripts (PHP, CGI etc) and databases (MySQL, MS SQL, Oracle etc) considerably restricts the facilities of a site which is placed on a free hosting. That is why it is better to choose a paid hosting for creating a site on your own.

While choosing a paid hosting you should pay your attention to facilities provided by this or that tariff plan. What amount of disc space is apportioned for your site? What is the traffic volume per month? Are server-side scripts and databases supported? Is maintenance of FTP available? All these and many other criteria are crucial when you choose hosting and suitable tariff plan.

Actual website development on your own has come to an end. You only have to fill the site with necessary content. But to make the site popular and visited it is not enough just to place it on the Internet. You should also promote and develop your site. Website promotion requires not only certain knowledge and skills but also a great amount of time for reaching the first positive results.

Therefore website development on your own is quite possible in the presence of competent approach to all its components. Website development on your own is a quite acceptable variant if you want to get a simple blog, fan site of your favorite musical band or a personal homepage.

But to get a commercial website that will promote your business on the Internet, attract clients and earn profit you need knowledge and experience of a professional team of web designers, programmers, copywriters and optimizers - a team of web design studio.

Web design studio WebStudio2U offers you development of a high-quality functional business site with exclusive design that meets all requirement and peculiarities of your very business. We will help you to set the aims of website development and find the ways of their realization, carry out the analysis of the target audience and your competitors, develop the strategy of website promotion for you.

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