<h2>Make a website for free?</h2>

How do I do that?

Making a website for free
<h2>How do I make a website?</h2>

What do I need to know and where do I start?

How to make a website
<h2>How do I register a domain name?</h2>

I have a great idea for a business, but how do I buy a domain name?

How to register a domain name
<h2>What are the best site builders?</h2>

I'm not interested in learning to make a website from scratch. Which website builder would suit me?

Choosing a website builder

How to create a website

Start with How do I make a website? This gives you a simple guide to everything from registering a domain name to publishing your own website.

Browse through What features do I want? for information about the most popular website features.

Why do I want a website? helps give you direction and focus - so that you start out right from the very first time.

Good stuff for your website has information about site builders, and resources to help your website be the best it can be.

For a beginner, building a website can be confusing. You could spend a lot of time and money, and still not end up with the site you wanted.

We wanted to make a straightforward resource, with the intention of helping you to get a basic grasp on the options available, and where to start.

Making a website for free

Did you know you can make your own website for free? You can wet your feet without spending any money at all.

Even if you want a business website - you can try it out for free first.

Making a website for free has its advantages and disadvantages, so be sure to go in with your eyes open before investing your time and energy into a project. Check out our pages on free website, free business and free hosting solutions.

And you can also learn search engine optimization yourself. Whatever the goal of your website is - to entertain, to inform, to amaze, to educate, to create a community, or to sell - search engine optimization is largely about making your website best meet those goals for your website visitors.

Don’t get caught – Do your research

Complete beginners might not know how to find the right web hosting for them or what kind of layout, features and functionality would best suit their business. Potentially, hundreds or thousands of dollars could be wasted in going down the wrong path.

Beginners to making a website may also become trapped by offers they see of making easy money, programs that promise to send send 'floods of visitors' to a site and search engine 'experts' who guarantee to get any website to a top 10 placement in Google.

The truth is - it is web pages, not web sites that are returned in search engine results. A great search engine optimizer can help get gain good placements for a number of your web pages, for a number of search terms. But you cannot get your entire website to number one, for all search terms related to your industry.

If you want to make a website of your own - make it a great one! Take your time, make lists, research.
Odds are you'll come across wonderful solutions you didn't even know existed!