Normally people think that building a decent website requires very high technology in webdesign and a lot of capital.
I dimestify this thinking by outlining three steps to owning a decent website.
1. Anybody can own a website
Owning a website is now easy and dirty cheap. Anybody can own a website. First decide the domain name. Search if the domain name is free (not yet taken). You can search for domain names here. If the domain name is free, register it with a webshosting company. It costs only $ 10 to own a domain name for a year. There are cheap web hosting providers that charge $ 80 (Kshs 8,000) per year. This includes unlimited space and hosting of unlimited domains. I use Bluehost and I have been happy with them for the last two years.
2. Designing the website
Designing the website can be as simple as you want or as complicated as you wish. I would go for a simpler option. There are many free software that allow any publisher to set up a decent website without any technical knowhow. I prefer WordPress for this.
WordPress is a free publishing platform that allow publishers to set up a blog with all capabilities of a sophisticated website. This website is designed using wordpress 2.8.4
To design a website using wordpress, you need just to download worpress to your web hosting provider. Using Bluehost is a walk in the park. They have what they call simple scripts, which allows a very easy way of downloading and setting up the website.
3. Uploading material
With wordpress posting articles like this one is very easy and straight forward. You only need to have material to write.
Now we are in the era of what I call ‘freelance broadcasters’. What I mean, is that, I don’t have to sit to watch a TV to catch up the news. Instead, I post anything new to my website and my friends do exactly the same. This creates a stream of news. Therefore I can get news before they are broadcasted by the mainstream media who have to censor whatever is fed to the public.
I will be posting a series of ways of building a website on this blog. You can can subscribe at the top left corner to be getting them straight in your inbox. If you need some more help, please contact me using the contact page or joshua.arimi (at) changeyourt (dot) com.
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@Genga, Thanks sir!
Joshua, thats single handedly the best piece of information I have come across this year.Thanks
Thanks Dave, Practice, practice, practice is the way….nothing is difficult
joshua hii mambo yako ni msuri saaanaa nitajaribu
Thanks Joshua. I will take my first baby steps today! I will keep you posted.
@Gichengi, thanks
Step1. Decide for the domain name and search it.Step2. Look on for the hosting provider, I would recommend those outside Kenya.Step3. Register your domain with the host. For wordpress sites, I would recommend Bluehoststep4. From there it is walk in the park
Thanks Joshua. Quite frankly, I would rather have you take me step by step!
@Gichengi, Its actually very easy. After asking a computer engineer to build a website for me for 2 yrs, I decided to embark on it myself. If you need help just consult http://wordpress.org/support/ or just hola me.By the way am Food Engineer, but I realised its very easy to build a site. My sites are:http://www.joshuaarimi.com and http://www.changeyourt.com
Thanks for this Joshua. Tiania Trust is a charitable organization that is struggling to get started without any funding at the moment. I think I shall have to take your advice and build a website for our organization – brick by brick!
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