Step by step procedure of creating a website from the scratch for a beginner.

• If this question flashed in your mind to know the step by step procedure to make a website from the scratch , then lot of other questions will defiantly arise in your mind next for example – will I create it by own or I would have to hire a professional web developer or designer , how much it cost , does it require the knowledge of programming etc . So here I am going to clear your all doubt one by one and guide you free to learn the method of creating any type of website . for your convenience I had also uploaded the video tutorials which will be very helpful  in learning the skill of web development.

• Decide what Type / category & purpose of your website you are willing to start  – Think what type of website you are willing to create  , are you planning to create just a informative website , or a online selling ecommerce website , or blog etc  . because you need to select proper web development tools / software for creating  your website , and as of now there are several web devolvement software’s are available in the market , out of them you need to choose that software / tool which fits best with your category . because we can not make any type of website from one web development tool , even some tools like Dreamweaver can create any type of website but it requires lot of time , hard work and programming skills as well , and the same projects can be done by selecting the appropriate tool in just few hours or days.

• Is knowledge of programming skills like – html , php , java , dotnet, etc is required or not for creating websites –  The answer is – No , you need not to know learn any kind programming language for creating any type of website , because due to advancement in the development of web development tools , and the drag and drop  features and various other options available in the web design and development tools has just minimized or either completely eliminated the use of programming skills in creating any type of websites . Just the most important thing is that which web development tools / software / plugins/ adons / extensions  you have to use at what place , or in deploying what feature / option on a website.
• List of web development software’s / tools which is used for creating which type of website without knowledge of programming language.

S.NO	Website Category / Type	Best Web Development tools / Software’s
1	Basic Static Html Website	Adobe Dreamweaver
2	Blog	WordPress , Blogspot , Blogger
3	E-Commerce Website	Magento , Perestashop , Opencart , Oscommerce
4	School / College/ University	Joomla , Druple , wordpress
5	Social Networking website	Elgg , Jcow , Mahara
6	Matrimonial Websites	Several Individual Scripts country wise
7	Forum	VBulletin , Simple machines forum , phpBB
8	Human resource Management	A1Ehr , Deskera , Orange HRM
9	Web Application Development	Ruby on Rails , Microsoft share point

Buy Domain Name & Hosting Space  – Now its time to register a domain name and purchase a website hosting space for your website. For domain registration and web hosting purchasing always buy it from a trusted and reputed company , never purchase domain and hosting from those companies who offer you free hosting because there are some hidden terms & conditions trick is applied , which could put in trouble in future .

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 Once you purchase domain and hosting, its time to start to work on creating website, I had explained here the step by step procedure of constructing each type of website along with video tutorials which will help you throughout the whole process .

Type 1 : How to create a simple static html website .

For creating a simple html website , first of all you need to have a web development tool known as – Adobe Dreamweaver , Download the software from the internet , it comes with a 30 days free trial and latter on if you like it you can purchase it . after downloading install it on your computer or laptop . now open the software , go to – File > new  , here it will ask you to choose the programming language in which your website will get created internally , don’t worry you need not to programe , you have do just do drag & drop on the work space , the software will internally programs for your need , so select her – html , php , asp , dotnet etc , once you select here the programming language , it will ask you to would you like to select a pre made web template / layout or would you like you to create a blank page where you can create your own web template , once you select the template , click on – create .

Now the work space will open , you will find the workspace has 3 window named as code window , split window & design window . click on design window , in design window you have to create your website by using several tools and options available on the top of design window , once you start creating your website in design window , the corresponding programming code will automatically created in the code window , in split window you can view the code along with the design at the same time . There are lot of options in the window so its not possible to make you understand here the complete process , so I will suggest you to just the video tutorial attached below for you better understanding and guidance.

Type 2 – How to create a blogging website .

If you are planning to make a blogging website for you I would suggest you to create your blog with best blogging tool called – wordpress .  if you want to create a completely free blog , you don’t want to spend on hosting and domain then I will suggest you to create your blog with blogger.com.

Click here – Read the  complete guide to learn wordpress with video tutorials

Click here – Read the complete guide to create a blog with blogger.com with video tutorials

Type 3 – How to create an Ecommerce website or online store  for selling products online .

The trend  of selling products and services is growing very rapidly in each country now a day every person is trying to purchase online , since they know that , on online store the products are comparatively cheaper . And retailers are also willing to setup an online store , since they are noticing that customers preference to buy from physical stores are decreasing day by day. Hence every shopkeeper is starting to setup an online store. For creating online store there are various software’s in the market like – Magento , Perestashop , open cart , zen cart , oscommerse  etc , all of there software’s contains all the needs of your online stores , just what you need to do is to buy a domain name & hosting space and install any one of the ecommerce script / software all of the are open source and free , once installation is completed you need to configure the website by replacing the dummy products with your real store products and prices , integrate a payment gateway and partner with a logistic company for shipment of orders .

Click here – Read complete Guide how to setup your ecommerce website  with step by step procedure & video tutorial  .

Apart from this there are several video tutorials on how to create different types of website which will help you in set up your website.

Once you finish set up your website you need to work on search engine marketing of your website , because if you had created a very professional and advanced website with several features and products and services but your site in not coming in the google , bing , yahoo ,msn etc search result , your website is useless if you don’t have visitors and customers ,Make social pages on facebook ,google + , twitter and time to time post your website products ,services and offers on the social media , it also derive great amount of traffic to your website ,hence I will always suggest you to do a proper search engine optimization of your website .

Backup & restoring procedure of your website –  Remember once you finish your website , it is the most important thing which you need to do , because since you are a beginner and you don’t have much knowledge about your website security tips , In such situations  hackers and spammers may hack your website as a result your complete hard work which you had done on your website will be lost and can not be recovered , hence I will always recommend you to take a complete backup of you website on a dvd or you computer or either on your hosting space .

For taking a backup of your website you need to login to your hosting control panel and there every company hosting panel has a backup and restore option , now select their your website whose backup you are wiling to create , now click on create backup , it will take some time  to create the backup of your website , Remember don’t forgot to backup your database file in backup , some company hosting allows you to generate backup of website and database separately while some hosting providers allow you to download back up in a single file . once back up is complete , download and save the backup complete in your computer or disk . now when ever you wish to restore your website , you can do it by log in to your hosting panel and click on restore backup , it will ask you to select the backup file of website and database select them and click on Restore button. For your simplicity  watch this video tutorial on how to  backup and restoring procedure of website.

Web Mail Setup /Email account setup @ your Domain Name – You might have got some   emails @ your domain name free with your hosting or domain , if you have not got in your can purchase it from your hosting provider , In order to setup email accounts @ your domain  you need to login to your hosting control panel and look for Email Setups , here you can set auto responder , so that if some one mail you then an automatic pre setted mail will be send back to the sender immediately  , you can also set up email forwarding option from here so that the copy of the mail received will also be automatically forwarded to other email also. For more detail  on Webmail setup with video tutorial read this article.

Website Theme Setup – If you are not happy with your current website theme or if it doesnot look professional you can buy som professional looking theme , because it gives good impression to your visitors.

Create & Submit Site map  – Sitemap is the complete  structure / map  of your website which helps search engine to  reach every page of your website , linked to your home page , it also helps visitors , so generate a xml copy of your sitemap from various websites which will generate free sitemap for your website , now submit the site map to google analytics and Bing , yahoo site explorer .

Create google analytics account , Google webmaster tool account , yahoo site explorer , bing webmaster central and configure with your website details , it will help you in analyzing visitors on your website as well increase your website traffic.