How To Build Your Own Website

How To Build a Website. When you build a website try to build it so that it loads fast, a fast loading website will rank better in search engines and load quicker for visitors. How many times have you visited a website and waited for the website to load? That's my point there are so many sites to choose from that if your site is slow visitors will just move onto the next site. The first and most important part of building a website is the hosting, you need to find a good web hosting company

Find The Right Web Hosting Company

Your website is like renting a shop the cheaper the shop rental the less likely you are going to get customers the same applies to web hosting, you dont want to spend valuable time building a website when your hosting provider lets you down and your site is not available. Or the hosting company that you use closes down. One of the best web hosting companies you can get is HostGator its been around for a long time and is tops, more tutorials on how to build a website with HostGator.

How To Build a Website Thats Fast Loading

Low graphics this is where you start, resize all images to the correct size before you load them on your website, don't load a large image and then use the image height and width tags to adjust the image size, as the image file will still be large rather upload your image to our image resizer and resize the image to the correct size you want. this tool will resize not only the image but the image file size making it smaller and quicker to load resulting in a faster website. Once you have done this take the same image and go to our image optimizer and let the tool optimise your image this will remove unnecessary bytes from the image which means it optimizes the images without changing their look or visual quality and also make the file size smaller, helping you to build a website the right way. Most important don't have to many images on one page.

Less Is best. Don't add to many apps and scripts to your webpage, these all effect the page load time. When you build a website check each page with our website speed test this is a great tool and tells you your webpage speed and lots more with this tool you will be able to see how to lighten the page as it shows you every item on your page with the loading time try if possible to get your web page to load in 20 seconds on 56k.

White Space this is the space between your coding removing the unneeded tabs and spaces can help a lot! Doing this will take a lot of extra bytes off the total size of your page and will speed up load time quite a bit. Careful using automatic squishers, I find they often squish too much and makes it rather hard to edit later.

Keep Your Code Clean. When you write your codes try to use the CSS Code to control your text size, text colours etc. try not to use <font> </font> etc. Removing any of those excess tags will not only speed up your load time, but make you pages validate, with no errors and be a lot cleaner.

Java Scripts, having more than one Java Script can also slow your web page down you might have to have a few that's fine all you have to do is combine them into one bigger script, all you do is use the JSCompress tool, it is an online javascript compressor that allows you to combine and compress and minify your javascript files. Compressed javascript files are ideal for production environments since they typically reduce the size of the file by 30-90%. Most of the filesize reduction is achieved by removing comments and extra whitespace characters that are not needed by web browsers or visitors.

Long Website Pages. By splitting up long pages into multiple pages you not only make the content show up faster and helps SEO as you will have more pages on your site with title, description and keyword tags, many visitors that see a very long scroll bar give up as there is to much in one place and takes to long to load. Remember when you build a website take your time with the design, and always look at your site like a visitor, you might wait for the page to load because its your site but the visitor won't, dont just build a website, build a fast website that works

If you build a website with Wordpress select the theme you want and before you do any work do a website speed test on that theme if you find that it takes to long to load then choose another theme. Also be carefull how many plugins you add to your WordPress site they will also effect the loading time slowing the site down.

Good Link Structure

Having a good internal link structure is also important for your SEO and visitors. Web crawlers and visitors need to be able to find your content try to plan your link structure. Set up your site into categories know as silo pages then in these silo pages you have posts or pages you must link all the post pages together for that category with a menu. Have a look at this website to see what I mean, this way it will be easy to navigate your site this link structure is know as the silo link structure and is very powerful.