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Home based jobs, online tasks and freelancing has been center of attraction since the last decade. It has been very rewarding and what’s even better is that you’re not bound to the ground rules of the office environment. Once your home is your office, you’re the boss of your own. It’s been a global phenomenon that people love to work for themselves rather than for someone else and surely enough, no matter how hard you work or how much effort you put in, if you’re working for someone, of course they get the bigger share because they own it. One of the most popular ways to start your own business from home is to develop a website of your own and start selling something that’s in demand.

How Can I Create a Website?

The answer to this question is simple, yet technical. Decide what sort of website you need and for what purpose. Different niches require different representation. For example, a writer’s website ought to be different from a community building platform or a freelancing portal need to look and work differently than an online shopping center. However, there are some basic requirements that every website needs, e.g. Business Requirements, Domain name, Hosting Server, etc. Let’s see what these requirements are and how to come over them.

Business Requirements

As I mentioned earlier, make out a plan of what you want to deliver and how you want to deliver it. Most importantly, figure out the monetary plan and see if it can be improved without harming the business ethics. Define objectives and lay out a plan to preserve the purpose within the web design. What you need is the momenta user enters your site, he should know what you’re selling.

Domain and Hosting Plan

Traditionally, building a website starts with choosing a hosting plan with suitable web space for your website and a domain name.

Domain Name

Domain name is the URL which links directly to the Home Page of your website and is known as the address of your website. For instance, www.google.com is the URL for Google’s Search Engine Home Page. Domain names need to be unique, i.e. no two website can have a common domain name. There are a number of online sites where you can register a domain name for your website, e.g. Godaddy, Hostgator, etc. There are certain things that need to be kept in mind while choosing a perfect domain name for your website.

First of all, choose a domain name that represents your business. For instance, shopify.com represents that we are talking about a shopping portal of some sort.
Make sure that your domain name is simple and easy to type. Longer names make is difficult to remember and there’s always a risk for the typing errors.
Thirdly, and maybe more important is to avoid numbers or special characters in the domain name to increase readability.

Hosting Plan

There are a number of websites that offer hosting plans to users all over the world. Basically hosting service is an online service that allows you to make your website accessible to everyone through the World Wide Web (www). Small websites require small hosting services where the web pages are uploaded to the server via the File Transfer Protocol (FTP). These services are usually sufficient for the small websites. Whereas larger websites require bigger hosting plans that involve database support, security plans, APIs and other services. Some of the known and trusted host providers are GoDaddy.com, Hosterpk.com, Hostgator.com, Serversea.com, etc.

Web Design and Development

Once you have registered a domain name and got a host for your site, hire a web developer to build a site for you. Prepare a plan, discuss ideas and layouts and lay down a firm proposal for your design. Test the design for bugs and risks and then initiate the development process. An untested design is a risk to the entire successive process.

There are a number of Web Building tools available online which offer you “drag and drop” web building services to make it easy for you to build a website for yourself. Some of the popular web builders of today are Wix.com, DudaOne.com, Weebly.com and GoDaddy Website Builder.

How Can I Earn From a Website

There are a number of ways to earn from your website. Some popular ways are mentioned below.

Sell your services

Sell whatever you’re good at. If you’re a writer, web developer or a chef, build a website and let people know of it to contact you directly from your website, accessible anywhere from across the globe.

If you have a decent number of people visiting your website, you can place ads on your web pages for different companies who pay you very well for it. There are two sorts of ads handed out by ad companies for webmasters.

Cost per click ads
Cost per mile ads

Google AdSense is one of the most popular ad companies that pay good amount to the websites advertising their content.

Affiliate Marketing

This is more of an underdog in this list. It is a slow but very efficient method of generating income through your website. All you need is a decent amount of traffic so you can promote brands according to your traffic’s interest. With each product or service sold, the brand pays the affiliate a decent cut from the profit. Some of the brands offering affiliate programs are Airbnb Referral Program and iTunes Affiliate Program.