Hello All,

I am again guessing that you are beginner. If you are an expert you can ignore my posts and articles and so on. Here is my simple tips for your first website.

I was talking to my friend in some other forum about the best way to make CV. There are many great ways and tools. In addition to CV, if you have a website of your own, just think how great would that be. In a website you have broader space to talk about yourself, your likings, interests, detailed educational skills and so on. For me and for many of my friends, the first web page is a “personal” web page. Even 5 years back I was not that much familiar with “blogs”. Many free site builders like Tripod, Yahoo etc etc were doing great business providing all you need. They usually give you lots of pre installed scripts, designs, blocks, widgets and so on. You do not need any html code to build your site when you are using their service.

Later, “Blog” became extremely popular. Blog added supreme “interactivity” between user and publishers. Blog is easy to set up. Easy to write, easy to customize and again, you do not need nay “codes/Mysql/CGI..etc etc”. I do not know anything about coding. This post, the site is using a blog software “wordpress”. Well lets get back to the point.

So, if you are a beginner, don’t BUY your first domain. Use as many free servers as possible. Get some basic knowledge  in html. Get free blogs from bloggers or wordpress and build some site just for fun. Always remember, “FUN” part is most important. If you do not like what you are doing, you will never be able to accomplish what you want. It will be boring for you and that’s not something we want.

There are too many cool things out there. It is good and bad at the same time. It is good that you have several options. Bad because you don’t know which one is best so you waste too much of your time in investigation!! So, I will give you my recommendation to get you started.

Things to do to get your first website:

1. Get a FREE domain name : This site will give you a profesional looking website name for free. Example: yourself.tk

2. Get NVU for free: NVU is FREE and EASY html editor. You will need it in many places. Great tool and should have in your collection all the time.

3. Get a FREE server from:

a) Blogger: http://www.blogger.com/home

b) Wordpress Blog: http://wordpress.com/ 

c) Tripod Site: http://www.tripod.lycos.com/

If you are trying to build a site for the first time, register in 3 of them. check them out and which one did you like. Tripod will show ADS and sometimes annoying. Blogger and wordpress free bloads are ADS free and you can easily create a dynamic site in few minutes.

Hope my basic guide will help you. I know I may not be the best. But you at least have a starting point. I wish you good luck with your first website. In later post I will elaborate how can you earn some mone even from your FREEly hosted BLOG or WEBSITE.

Stay tuned.