The process of creating the site directly starts with the definition of goals and objectives for which the site is created. One of the most important steps during the development of the concept of site will be to answer the questions about what exactly the functions of the resource, which content will be filled, which for all this select a visual solution and exactly what the target audience is expected to be the most actively used by the developed resource.
Initially, you can determine the purpose of the programmed site by its appearance:
- Website page (Landing page)
- Site business card
- Business site
- Corporate website
- Site catalog
- Internet-shop
- Information portal
Properly formulated topic created resource will facilitate the choice of a vast array of tools available to the modern web developer. The main thing in this matter adequately to their own forces. Create your own hands site is possible and not a little bit of experience in web-development, although it is worth remembering that the quality of the product in comparison with what will make a professional, of course, will lose. An experienced developer, meanwhile, with substantial experience in web development, can maintain and create projects of almost any level of complexity. If you are not a specialist in the field, the best would be razrabotka your site “turnkey” – there is no point in a person who does not seek to make a career web-developer to spend a lot of time learning a new profession, but it will be able to manage the content of their resource.
For novice developers who are starting to create their first, uncomplicated pages, there are many free, but already proven tools. All you need is a simple code editor, knowledge of hypertext markup language (HTML), cascading stylesheet (CSS), which greatly extends the graphical capabilities of HTML, as well as to add interactivity to the resource, you should learn a very popular web-development language JavaScript. Of course, additional tools will be web-developer raster and vector editors to work with images of different formats.
Other types of site worthy to realize with the help of simple tools is not easy. Each page of the site is in a separate file. The more created a web resource, the harder to make changes.
Therefore, for informational sites, sites for communication or online stores is desirable to use a CMS – content management system. There are several free CMS, allowing without any specific knowledge or skills to create a simple forum, own blog or online store. The most popular are WordPress and Joomla. Using a CMS to develop a site differs in the presence of a database, and the use of language PHP to access the stored information. Databases greatly facilitate the work with information. With the help of CMS you can:
- determine the level of user access to the information available on the site;
- change the design of the site using the available settings;
- manage a large amount of information, organizing its search, input, update, delete.
Creating a website includes not only the definition of its purpose and development, but also its placement on the network. This will require registering his domain name and place the resource on a hosting site for free access to it. Free domain and hosting exist, but for commercial sites, they are not suitable because of their peculiarities: domains, as a rule, are available second order; hostings are filled with advertisements. Paid registration of the domain name and website hosting will allow you to get a first-order name and to use technical support in case of problems.