How to Build a Website Yourself Step 1: Website Planning

How can weBuild Your Own Website? Although the method is simple, we should still have a website plan from the very beginning.

What is website planning?

Website planning, literally speaking, is about 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 yourBuild a Websiteis the first thing you should consider when building a website.

Purpose of Building a Website

building your own website, first, you need to understand why you want to build a website. That is,Purpose of Building a Website: Is it to record your life or work, or to generate profit from the website, creating an additional income source. Or perhaps to build a website for a company to promote its brand and products.

Website Content Categorization

Categorize website content: After determining the website's purpose, you need to have a general categorization of the website content. If it's just for recording your own life and work, the categorization can be more casual. If you intend toCreating a Profitable Website, then careful consideration should be given to the website's categorization. For example, if you want to create a website for pepper trading, your website content should revolve around peppers, and you shouldn't write articles about cars or other unrelated topics. For reference on how a website can make money, seethe previous article。

Considerations for Website Domain and Hosting

After determining the purpose and content of the website, you can start considering the domain name and hosting. You need to decide whether your website's users are primarily domestic or international. If most users are domestic, it's recommended to purchase domain and hosting services locally, although this requires ICP filing. In the long run, the user experience is better than using overseas hosting. If you want to build a foreign trade website, it's definitely more convenient to use a foreign domain and hosting. For recommendations on domain and hosting, you can refer to articles previously published by Naiba:How to Choose a Domain Name for Beginners Building a Website Recommended VPS that is stable and suitable for beginners

Choosing a Website Building Program

There are many website building programs on the internet, both free and paid. So how should you choose? Naiba's recommendation is that unless you have special needs, you should use the open-source WordPress website building program. Currently, one-third of 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 store, and almost any type of 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 Naiba on how individuals can build websites. For specific details, refer toSteps to Build Your Own WebsiteThis article provides a detailed step-by-step guide on building a website from scratch.