How to set-up a website - a beginners guide to launching your own website

On this page we will guide you through how to make or create a website. The guide is intended for beginners who are new to the internet and takes you step by step through the whole process from the very beginning.
Although, this guide is not as in depth as some of the guides you’ll find in paid membership products, we’ve tried to be as detailed as possible. We make very few assumptions about what you already know.  

Some of the steps are more detailed than others so we may also link to other articles both on and off the MakeMoneyHome.co.uk website.

If you don’t want the hassle of creating your own website – then I would recommend using the program - Home Website Builder

Steps to setting up your own website:

Designing and Launching Your Website

The first thing you need to do before anything else is to get yourself a domain name. A domain name is the name you want to give to your website. For example, the domain name of the website you're reading is "MakeMoneyHome.co.uk". 

To get a domain name, you have to pay an annual fee to a registrar the right to use that name. Getting a name does not get you a website or anything like that. It's just the domain name. You could look at it in the same way as registering a business name in the brick-and-mortar world; having that business name does not mean that you also get a shop premises to go with the name.

It’s important that you register a good domain name that is relevant to your topic. We’ve provided information on choosing a good domain name in the following article:

How To Choose A Good Domain Name

Once you have chosen a good domain name then you will need to register that domain name and purchase hosting which are both explained in the step below.

Choosing A Domain and Hosting Company

A web host is basically a company that has many computers connected to the Internet. When you place your web pages on their computers, everyone in the world who has an internet connection can now connect to your website and view the pages. 

An easy way to understand how it works is as follows: 

You need to sign up for an account with a web host so that your website has a home. If getting a domain name is the same as getting a business name in the brick-and-mortar world, getting a web hosting account is the same as renting office premises for your business.

Most domain name companies and hosting companies offer both domain registration and hosting packages together so we would advise buying them together because keeping everything in the same place makes things a lot simpler moving forward.

Below are 3 web hosting companies that we would recommend:

Designing and Launching Your Website

Once you have settled your domain name and web host, the next step is to design and launch your website.

This is a little more complicated then the first few steps. However, thanks to the growth of the internet there has been a massive rise in the number of free website builders and templates available. This means that anyone with an internet connection is able to launch their own website.

There are a lot of companies who claim to offer "free hosting". However,  be careful which company you choose. Some will bombard you with spam or sell your email address to other spammers. Others will paste their ads on your site. 

Below you will find a list of programs that offer free websites, free blogging software, free website templates or free instructions on how to design and launch your own website.

Free Website Builders:

Home Website Builder
The affiliate industry is a multi-billion dollar industry and best of all, it’s an industry that you can easily tap into, with the right knowledge, from the comfort of your own home.

HomeWebsiteBuilder.com allows you to build professionally designed affiliate review websites in a matter of minutes. The My Affiliate Site software is fully integrated with ClickBank, the internet’s leading affiliate program. ClickBank is literally packed with thousands of companies paying every-day people like you to promote their product and you can receive up to £150 for every product you sell.

Home Website Builder is FREE to get started and if you like their software then there are various paid upgrades to enhance your website with more features and earning potential. 

Get Your Free Affiliate Website - Click Here!

Free Blogging Software:

A blog (short for web log) is like an online journal. Millions of people post their expert opinions, information, thoughts or ideas to the web. Some people use blogs to publish simple newspapers, although the search and archive capabilities are limited. You don't have to know anything about HTML or other web technologies. You can get an ad-free blog completely free at a number of sites. Below are the blogging platforms that we recommend.

My Blogging Site
My-Blogging-Site.com goes where no other blogging platform goes, offering the best income potential for new bloggers hoping to start making a decent amount of money with their own online website.

Setting up your blog takes only 2 minutes and there are plenty of guides to help get you started. If that’s not enough for you, every member is entitled to 24/7 support - One thing that stands out with this company is that they really want you to succeed! 

Once you have taken a look around the member’s area and created your blog, My Blogging Site will give you a huge list of products and services to blog about. Thousands of companies are paying everyday people like me and you to review their service! The list is constantly updated with up-to date, hot new products for you to write about in your blog.

My Blogging Site is a must for anyone starting out in the industry with little or no previous experience required. Within 2 weeks you will be blogging like a pro! 

Get Your FREE Blogging Site - Click Here!

Wordpress:
WordPress is a leader in providing blog software. Theyl'll host your website or you can find a host like Just Host that offers WordPress as a simple-to-implement option. WordPress has a number of (not free) add ons, available from WordPress and third parties like Artisteer, a Wordpress Theme Generator that lets you create your own design for your Wordpress site. 

Get started with WordPress - Click Here!

Blogger.com:
Blogger is a blog publishing service that allows private or multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries. This platform is owned by Google and has a lot of great features. However, in our opinion it is not as flexible as WordPress and does not give you the fast earning capabilities provided by My-Blogging-Site.com.

Start a blog online with Blogger.com

Free Website Templates:

If you are a little more experienced or a confident internet user then you may want to create your own website design. Below are a list of sites that offer free website templates. These are pre-designed websites all you need to do is add your own personal content and you're ready to jump start your own website. You can customize the website templates any way you like.

Most of these sites also, offer premium designed website templates for a small cost.

Getting Your Website Noticed

Once you have your website online you need to get it noticed and start driving visitors through the doors.

We discuss this topic in more detail on the following pages:

Top 10 Ways To Drive Traffic To Your Website
Starting an Online Business – A Quick Start Guide

A Few More Online Buisness Ideas - To Make Money From Home

Still not sure where to get started or not found any online business ideas that interest you?

Here are a collection of online business ideas to get you thinking on how you might make money at home with an Internet business.