Quick and Cheap Method to Create Your Own Community Website
Do you need to create a website for your sports and recreation community in Indonesia, but do not want pay thousands to a web designer? Are you an aspiring web designer looking to create a website for a community development in Dominican Republic, but do not want to spend much time and money? It does not matter where you are and why you need a community website.
Making a awesome community or charity website can be expedited and should be affordable to any organisation. You should learn these secrets that rich web designers do not want you to know.
- Always pay the cheapest for domain registration.
- Use a hosting that has very good tech support so you do not have to pay more money to web developers when you got stuck
- Use the most popular and user-friendly content-management system to quickly create a website that is optimized for top search results, and update the website yourself whenever you want.
- Do not underestimate the power of a ready-made website theme to create nice website look and feel
- You can make money from the website (the website should at least pay for itself)
Cheap Domain Name
You can pay $17.99 at Godaddy or $35 at Network Solutions. However, we some prefer to pay as low as $10.99? This is the best price we found, and you can get the lowest-priced dotORG domain at a popular registrar called Name.com.
For more info about cheap domain registration, go to hostingtopic.com/cheapest.
Choosing a Helpful Hosting
When it comes to hosting for your website, most experienced web designers recommend Hostgator Baby Plan.
Hostgator has a very long, 45 days money back guarantee, so you have ample time to test them out. They are rated A+ by Better Business Bureau which shows their commitment to customer satisfaction. You also do not have to pay the full price for the first month.
You can try Hostgator for almost free and use the coupon code LINUXHOSTING.
You can try also take 25% off your first payment if use the coupon code SERVEHOSTING.
If you have question or if you get stuck at step of the process, feel free to ask for help.
For more info about web hosting comparison, go to besthosting2015.org.
Use WordPress to Structure The Website
WordPress is the most-used content management system (CMS) today. But what wealthy web designers do not want you to know is that you can use WordPress to build the framework for a Google (and other search engine) friendly, top-ranking website. If you are building a house, WordPress is the structure of a house.
After the installation of WordPress is complete, it is a straightforward matter to set up your site, starting with the installation of WordPress themes. Think of WordPress template as the finishing of the house which includes tiles, doors, colors etc. This is what makes the house unique from the others.
You can find a great many of the themes on the internet, both commercial and free.
Ready-made Template
You can opt for the free ones here.
On some occasions, we may prefer to get some unique-looking themes so that your website will look different from the rest of the web. One thing to be aware of is that not all themes are equal, and you often get what you pay for.
Here are some good looking themes suitable for a community website.
Make Some Money
If done right, you not only can cover the cost to create your website, but you and the sports and recreation community (or your specific community) can also collect some funds from it. So how do you collect extra money from your website? There are many ways, but here are the best ways:
- Include Google Adsense – for more info, go to wordpressadsensetheme.net
- Ask for Donation – for more info, go to paypal.com/webapps/mpp/donations
- Referral Programs – for more info, go to businesswebhost.org/best-affiliate-programs-for-beginners/
What is The Next Step?
With the beautiful community website already developed, you can maintain constant contact with your customers/members/fans through regular updates about upcoming events, news etc. With the power of WordPress plugins such as Buddypress, it becomes easy to develop your website into social network community that represents and connects people that share common interests.
Now make the first move and clarify any doubt you still have in your mind.