Helpful Tips To Get Started Building A Website

This is a process that you, as the client, can be as involved in, or not, as you like.

1. Web Hosting- in simple terms web hosting is the 'place' where your website resides and the server that supports it online. My personal favorite for being user friendly and affordable is HostGator.com
2. Domain Name- This is what your website will be called in the address bar and how people will find you. Example-my Domain name is iadmin4youandmore.com , you will want this to be easy to remember and as short as possible. There are steps to make sure that the domain name you want is available and once you own it, no one can use the same one. Read more on owning domain names here The Power Of Owning Your Own Domain
3. Content Planning- This is the stage that many people get stuck on. What do you want to say to your customers/clients? How much or little do they need to be entertained? Yes, really. Do you want everything to be public or should some of it be only accessible to registered users? NOTE-if you are already getting a headache thinking about this STOP and contact me now, I can handle everything!
4. Choosing a theme- this is fairly simple yet extremely important! The right theme gives the correct message, the wrong one and you end up looking junky or geared towards the wrong market.
5. SEO (Search Engine Optimizer)- in simple English an SEO works (or doesn't) according to how you use it. The biggest one out there is Google but you want to be found in all search engines like Bing, Yahoo and others too. Keywords are KEY! Without keywords in your site you could search until the sun turns gray and never find yourself online. Let me help with this! There are multiple ways to insert keywords in your site using categories, keywords, tags, slugs and, of course, plug-ins.
6. Customize Your theme- I actually do this as I go and not as a last step but if you are building a site by yourself this can be viewed as icing on the cake. Customizing is basically tweaking anything that you would like to appear differently and adding little changes that make the site speak more to your business. This can be adding a logo, changing menus, inserting images, etc.

Finally, Rather you choose to do this alone or with the expert help of your iadmin (ME!) try to keep in mind that this is an exciting adventure into a new territory, filled with possibility for growth and sustenance of your business. Have fun with it!