Are you stunned at the many vibrant, striking, money-making sites you notice each time you search the world wide web? Wish you had one yourself to put up your personal stuff or even promote your small business? In this article I will teach you the fastest, most convenient way of how to make your own website without spending a penny. Yes, absolutely free.
Today some website hosting companies offer free hosting plans for individuals wanting to have their own website. The great thing about this is besides the free hosting, most of these companies also offer professional web site builders where you can design and build your website using innovative tools. So basically you can create your website and show it to people within just 30 minutes.
One company that offers such a service is Google. Bought in 2002 by Google, Blogger is a blog publishing system which you can use for almost everything from updating your friends and family about your life, giving your own advice column, discussing your political views, or relating your experience in any topic of interest. The greatest feature about Blogger, and I say one of the most excellent service I have experienced, is that you can essentially modify the outline of your design by actually modifying the hard-coded html of your provided web site. That is, you can remove the traditional design templates offered by Blogger.com and change it with your own code.
Because Blogger is a web-log service, you can actually convert your web-log into a working website without any restrictions. Meaning, you can have a professional-looking website with all the text, images and videos arranged according to your will, add to that, it’s ad-free.
So here is a guide on how to build a web site.
First things first, you need to have a Google account. If you have one, sign in to Blogger. You will notice that there are only 4 main menus – Edit Posts, Settings, Layout, and Monetize. For now, we will focus on the over-all design and interface of your website so we will start on the Layout page. Here is the technique and where everybody else fails, we don’t like the basic, customary Blogger templates so you might want to have one of your own. There are hundreds of free Blogger templates which can be downloaded for free. Just Google for “free blogger templates” and you can select from the simple to complex designs that will suit your need.
If you have chosen one, remove the code from your Blogger designer under Layout -> Edit Html menu and put the provided code of your chosen template. By now you have completely changed the over-all appearance of your website. You can further apply changes like changing your website’s language, hiding dates, etc. by going to the Settings page. Next is to arrange the page elements of your website. Go to Layout -> Page Elements and from there you can modify the title, heading, link bar, side bar, and other elements of your website. Doing this is actually pretty easy with the on-board WYSIWYG editor where you can add gadgets like navigation bars, links and pictures to the sides of your site.
You can even upload your own designed image as your heading. Finally, you have to add the main contents of your website. This is done by going to the Post page. You can create and put several pages to your website by creating posts and opting to display only 1 post on each page. This will make each of your posts to be assigned to each of your pages. When finished with your first post, try to publish it and see how it looks. Be a little creative and make your web-log not look like a web-log but a full-featured web site by playing around with Layout and Settings pages. You will be amazed at how much you can do with Blogger’s free blog service.
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