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Starting your own website

// June 24th, 2008 // Internet Marketing, Useful&Interesting Discusions

Many people think that starting a website is really hard and it need a lot of design and programming skills. Actually you don’t need any programming skills because there are many free to use CMS out there.
What is a CMS? CMS stand for “Content Management System”. Consider it as a ready to use website. All you have to do is add content. Making the menu is really easy. Just mush a few buttons and you are done.

What about the design? The CMS already has a very good looking template, but I know that you don’t want your website to looks just like any other website here on the internet. That is exactly why all good CMSs have a template system. This allows the administrator to ad custom made templates that will change the appearance of the website. The templates can be free or they can be purchased from special websites for a very low budget.
Before you start making the website you must first need a niche. Choose a niche that interests you. Something that you would love to write and you would like to study more about. The key to a successful website is good content. And you can’t have good content if you don’t know anything about the niche and you don’t like learning anything about it. If it does not interest you, then don’t choose it.
You have a niche, but what CMS to choose? Like I said…there are many on the net. If you want a fully functional website I strongly recommend Joomla. It is the most flexible CMS and has many plugins and templates for you to choose from. Install it, search for a good template and now you just have to write the content. If you just want a blog you can host it your-self, in witch case I recommend to use WordPress, or you can have it hosted on blogspot.com or wordpress.com. I strongly recommend hosting it yourself.

What else do you need now? ADS! It is time to make make money out of your website. That is why you need to have some sort of ads on your website. For this I recommend Adsense. Just follow the TOS. Once you get banned, there is no way you can get back in. Also you can combine Adsense with Kontera. Just remember not to put Adsense ads together with ads from different publishers that server similar ads as aspect.