Most of people are always interested to have their own website, especially personal website such as what JoshiesWorld is. Many of you have no idea what to do in order to build a website or even how to start to build a website. But let me tell you this, that it is definitely not a overnight. It takes a pretty long while for it to be officially finished because you would have to working through thousands and thousands files in order to make sure it runs properly and as well writing thousands and thousands files and hundreds of folders, you think writing 20 pages for your school is difficult? Try writing three to five thousands of files, ,and no they aren’t always halfway of each page. You would have to start from top and to the bottom of one page and then continue to the next year and on and so forth and then creating folders such as administrator login page, upload directory and few of other different paths categories. You would have to write in almost all of different types of codes such as HTML, CSS, PHP, Javascript, database (MYSQL or SQL) and among of others. It took me more than two years just learning on how to work around with programming and designing and as well integrating databases which is no fun at all because it can kick you in the rear harder than you can ever imagine. It’s not all about letters, you would have to write in several letters, numbers and symbols. And then trying to figure a right integration for a exist software of script to be installed and you would have to find a good reliable server/host as well and then purchase domain from reasonable and trusted domain registrar and then take it from there. If you find the right host, it isn’t too high in pricing and then once you get many of traffics coming to your website and then that’s when your money would be burning because you would have to move from a host/shared host to VP server and then move to dedicated server which in that case it would be your fully server that you have a lot of more features to take control of, but dedicated server will be wanting ranging from $100 to $400 dollars out of your pocket monthly and then pay additional features as more bandwidth and diskspace (named memory) to keep the website in control instead of letting it be out of control, because once it runs out of either bandwidth or spaces then that is where your website will be suspended by the provider until you make more additional spaces onto your server enough to handle more traffics and then they will let your website goes active again and then you will have to keep your eyes out on bandwidth and spaces more carefully, because you don’t want that to happen again but the more growth it gets the more expensive it gets I will guarantee you that. After once you have a website up and running good enough then the next thing you should be worried about is SEO (Search Engine Optimization) which is what you making sure that keywords suits the content of your website and figure what a good title it would be for the header, once you have figured what good title for your head such as “JoshiesWorld.com – Joshies’ Official Website” then you will be wanting to submit your website to several search engines. Having search engine submission will brings all of the pages and the contents that are on your website to be in search engine that match the keywords well, because once you submitted your websites in different search engines is where everybody can go to a search engine such as Google or Yahoo! to search for what they need to look into and then there goes your website being in the search engine and then the person that did search in search engine will find your website that matched to their keyword which that is some of traffics will be coming from. After doing the search engines submission and search engine optimization then next thing is you want to find a publishing advertisements company to monetize to earn some money to put in your pocket for advertising which is usually a square or a banner. Think of it as almost sponsor, it’s same thing as if you are advertising their brands and they pay you to have their websites on your website. But before anything that you do these, you must be making contents first instead of leaving it blanks because visitors won’t want to be seeing a empty page. Having contents on your website can be from blogging system which is just like this website where you publish what you want to say or want everyone to learn something from you. Making contents is VERY important, make few of contents such as posts writing about anything you would like to say such as your journal, diary, or whatever that is on your mind.
Once everything is settled like you think it would be, believe me it will never be settled because you will have to always watch out for errors, once you have errors then you have to go into the host/server and work around with files searching for something in code that is causing the errors and then you will have to fix/correct it in order for the errors go away, such as debugging.
Then the very last thing that you would want to do is promote, promote and promote. It can be words from mouth, or showing the name of your website off on some t-shirts, hats and other personalized things that you make it yourself. And also be sure to let everybody know about your website by leaving the link to your website in your signature on some bulletin boards which is also named forums and also as well signature in your e-mail messages. And also you will have to be spending money on advertising program to have other websites and such to advertise your website which it can sometimes be small prices only if you want to target very small numbers of visitors which that never will be enough, it would be the best way to just go ahead and pay for a large target to thousands of visitors so that way you won’t have to pay small for very few of visitors and then realizing that it isn’t enough then you would be wanting to pay more to target more visitors, so therefore it would just be wasting your money which that is one of reason why you should go big in first place. But however, you can pay to have your website advertised as much as you want, but no matter the amount of times you are paying, you will need more and more which in this case it would just keep you paying more endlessly of course until you think it is enough for yourself but remember, the larger target of visitors will help your website have higher popularity and ranking and also you would be monetizing even greater amount of money from publishing in advertising program. Advertising program I would recommend is Google Adsense, they’re best when it comes to advertising because I cannot ever find any other that is better than Google Adsense but however, Chitika advertising program comes pretty close so they are #2 but Google Adsense for advertising program is who you want to apply for but remember, it is not safe to be with both at same time and advertising both of them on your website because it might get you banned from either one of them and then you won’t be able to monetize from your website.
And everything more goes on. It is unstoppable to run a website, only way you can finally get everything settled down and be out of the situation is if you stop running the website! Running a website is a lot more of work than you or anyone can ever imagine. The worst is working around with database. Database is what you have to watch out for the most besides making sure that the bandwidth and the diskspace don’t go over the limits. But however, you can learn and have your own page for a website-alike then you could always try freewebs.com, tumblr.com and blogger.com and they are free.
I have shut down websites before, which is over 20 at same times because it was too much for me to handle, but that was before I even had a confident in me to keep it running which is what I am doing right now is to keep running JoshiesWorld until whatever happens to me.
For all of my hard work that I have puts into running JoshiesWorld, I thank you for staying with JoshiesWorld and to continue visting. Hope you have a great day, it’s pretty windy out here where I live right now so I better get going before if the power goes out then it can gets frustrating that you post can be lost, most of it at least, and yes that can happens.
