Do you need to create a website for your non-profit charity in United States, but do not want pay thousands to a web designer? Are you an aspiring web designer looking to create a website for a sports and recreation community in Nigeria, but want to start small with big result? It does not matter your location and why you need a community website.
Making a professional-looking community or charity website can be easy and should not cost you a fortune. You should learn these tricks that wealthy web developers do not want you to know.
- Always pay the cheapest for domain registration.
- Find a hosting that has very good tech support so you do not have to pay money for troubleshooting when you got stuck
- Choose the most popular and easiest content-management system to quickly create a website that is optimized for top search results, and update the website yourself whenever you want.
- Use a ready-made templates to create awesome website look and feel
- Remember to make income from the website (the website should at least pay for itself)
Cheap Domain Registration
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 bestdomainregistrars.org/cheapest.
Choosing a Helpful Hosting
When it comes to hosting for your website, most experienced website designers recommend Hostgator.
Hostgator has an amazingly long, 45-day 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 can try them for almost free for the first month.
You can try Hostgator for a penny and use the coupon code FTPHOSTING.
You can try also save 25% 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 best domain hosting, go to bestdomainhost.org.
Use WordPress to Structure Your Website
WordPress is the most-used content management system (CMS) available. But what seasoned web developers 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 templates. If you are building your house, WP theme is the finishing of the house which includes tiles, wall decoration, colors etc. This is what makes the house complete and we can call it home.
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, you may prefer to get some nice-looking templates 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 great 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 non-profit charity (or your specific community) can also generate some funds from it. So how do you make extra money from your website? There are many ways, but here are the best ways:
- Put Adsense advertisements – for more info, go to wordpressadsensetheme.net
- Online Fundraising – 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 made, you can target your members through the community with relevant new information that they would expect to find through the community website. With the power of WordPress plugins such as Buddypress, the next possible step is to develop your website into social network community that represents and connects people that share common interests.
Now go and have a chat about how to proceed with your website.