How to make a website - Hints and Tips from a professional web designer

How to make a website

Creating your own website is easy with CWC My Web Design.  Just four easy steps are needed to create your website.  Visit CWC My Web Design, buy your domain, create your account and then choose your theme.  You can build your site around these themes or completely change them.  Add text, images, videos, premade blocks, contact forms, Google maps, blogs, forums, integrated chat and much more.  Tons of help videos and on-line chat if you get stuck.  Its that simple.  

What is a website builder?

A web builder or CMS (Content Management System) is exactly that.  A content management system.  Its an online program that allows you to manage your website content.  You can update and edit your text, videos, images, basically anything you need.

Why choose us?

Imagine you own a store downtown, and you want to show off your newest products on your website, well you can instantly. No waiting, and so easy to do. Owning a web builder also cuts out the time it takes for a website to be built, as well as cutting down the costs quite dramatically, that are associated with hiring a professional web designer or developer. Great for ROI(Return on investment).
Our website builder has built in themes and features that are added with just a few clicks. Need a shopping cart or ecommerce on-line store?  You can, and with unlimited products as well.
Don't like your theme, you can also change it whenever you like.  Our web builder changes the theme, but keeps your content.  
Need integrated chat?  Easily add a chat box to your site, so you can chat with your visitors and increase leads and potential customers.
Apart from our state of the art website maker, also comes a wealth of information, such as professionally written tips on building your site.  From marketing tips to professional web content writing and how it can increase your Google rankings. We also have links to various on-line free and paid logo designers and thousands of completely free icons and images, all royalty free of course.
Become your own web designer and build your website like a pro. Empower yourself and add your businesses identity and your ideas to your website.

Why is our web builder the best website builder?

Simply put, our website maker is one of the easiest, simplest, and intuitive website builders on the Internet.  It wont get any easier than this.  Add the features and themes, and you have one great web builder.

What is the difference between a domain and hosting and what are they?

A domain is the friendly naming system for giving addresses to web servers and web pages.  It hides the technical version of your website address.  An example would be: google.com 
Domains rely on a naming convention, much like your first and last name.  The first part of the domain name is you unique name eg: google.  The second part is the family name eg. .com, .org, .net etc.  Choosing a family name for a domain can be done by first looking at your type of business (.org for organization, .com for a company etc) and secondly you can have third tier names such as name.com.au or name.com.nz etc.  These are great for your locations and the way Google adds your website in search results.  If you choose a domain name with .com.au instead of just .com, this tells Google that you are a company and you are located in Australia and can display your website in Australian based search results.  This is great for local Australian companies that only sell within Australia. You would choose just .com if you wanted to sell internationally.
Hosting is your "space" you rent out, much like an apartment in an apartment block.
So you could consider your domain to be your postal address and you hosting to be your apartment.  One is useless without the other.

Why do I have to pay for domains and hosting?

Simplified answer: You don't actually buy the domain name, you rent it from your registrar. The price you pay them is for the service of routing the domain name to an actual server.
Hosting is a paid service as we have a physical server with which we pay costs, and we rent out "apartments" to you, the consumer.

Why do I have to add my website to Google and Bing?

Google and Bing are search engines and in order for them to find your site, you have to add them to Google or Bing.  You can do this a number of ways.  The easiest way is to use our web builders built in "Add to Google" feature.  Its pretty easy, just follow the instructions, if you need any help just ask us.  The other way is by going directly to Google Web Master or Bing Web Master and adding your website manually.  Please note that unless you do submit your site, your site will not be found on these search engines, and that can mean a lot of lost revenue and potential leads.  Search engines account for almost 85% of all visits to a website, hence it is essential that you submit your site.

There are a few things that can help you choose your domain name

Is it brand-able or descriptive of your company.   For example, if you make a site about a fitness then best-fitness-website.net is not a good choice: fitnessacademy.com or fitnessandfun.com is much better.

Is it memorable? Short, punchy and clear domain names are much easier to remember. If your domain name is too fuzzy, too long or spelled in a strange way, visitors may forget it.

Is it catchy? You want a domain name that rolls off the tongue, describes what you (or your business) does and sticks in the head. Coming up with a cool name can be a bit tough since there are approximately 150 million active domain names in the world right now – but don’t give up.

Try to keep your domain name under 13 letters.

Visit Https://cwcmywebdesign.com to start building your site today

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