The first step in building your own website: Website Planning

How tobuild a website yourself? Although the method is simple, initially we should still have a website plan.

What is Website Planning?

Literally, website planning means having an overall plan, strategy, and arrangement for the website. Planning includes the website's Theme, structure, content, updates, etc.

How to Do Website Planning?

Website planning should be the first thing you consider when youbuild a website.

Purpose of Building a Website

build my own website, first, you need to understand why you want to create a website. That isPurpose of Building a Website: to record your life or work, or to hope the website generates profit, providing you with a side income source. Or to create a website for a company, promoting your brand and products.

Website Content Categories

Categorize website content: After determining the website's purpose, you need to have a general classification of the website content. If it's just to record your life and work, the classification can be more casual. If you want tocreate a profitable website, then you need to carefully consider the website's categories. For example, if you want to make a website for pepper trading, your website content should revolve around peppers, and you shouldn't write articles about cars or the like. For how a website can make money, you can refer tothe previous article。

Considerations for Website Domain and Hosting

After determining the website's purpose and content, you can start considering the website's Domain and hosting space. You need to determine whether your website's users are mainly domestic or foreign. If domestic users are the majority, it is recommended to purchase domestic services for both Domain and hosting, although it requires ICP filing. However, in the long run, the user experience is better than using foreign hosting. If you want to create a Foreign Trade Independent Website, then it's definitely more convenient to choose foreign Domain and hosting. For recommendations on Domain and hosting, you can refer to articles previously published by Naibabiji:How to Choose a Domain Name for Beginners Building a Website Recommended VPS that are stable and suitable for beginners

Choosing a Website Building Program

There are many website programs on the internet, both free and paid. So how should you choose? Naibabiji's suggestion is that if you don't have special needs, it's recommended to use the open-source website program WordPress. Currently, one-third of the websites on the internet are built with WordPress. With WordPress, you can build a blog website, news website, corporate website, CMS website, shopping website, book website, e-commerce website, etc. — any website you can think of.

Personal Website Building Tutorial

After you have completed this website planning, you can start purchasing a Domain and hosting to build your own website. Below are some tutorials shared by Naibabiji on how individuals can build websites. For specifics, you can refer toSteps to Build Your Own WebsiteThis article provides a detailed step-by-step interpretation of building a website from scratch.