So you want to make a website, but where do you start? This article gives clear and comprehensive guide lines how to build a website free and fast. The tutorial was created specially for web design beginners and you wont need any special skills to get started.

Things you must have to create your own site are:

1. Site Plan

2. Domain Name

3. Web Hosting

4. Web design

Planning the website is one of the most important and crucial tasks. As soon as you have clear understanding of your website structure you have completed 50% of the task. Make sure you have all texts and images for ever page, don’t just jump into creating a site without clear vision of site map. Imagine that you are site visitor and thing about website usability. Thorough website planning will help you avoid many mistakes, will save lot’s of your time and keep you away from constant design alterations. If you have all site content ready – congrats! You can proceed to the next step.

Domain name really means. Some SEO experts believe that the domain name should contain the keywords which are critical for the promotion of your business. We hope they are right cause we named the domain “aurora flash” which is supposed to advertise the name of the product and associate it with Flash keyword. Also if you are non profit organization(like we are) it’s better to use .org extension. And of course if you are registering the domain name for business purposes we highly recommend to pay at least 3 years registration. After you are through with the domain you can proceed to web hosting. Most of  web hosting companies sell both domain names and web hosting service. We highly unrecommend to use free web hosting services as they are extremely unstable. We do not advertise any of the companied, the only thing we want to say is choose a big and old company with good reputation. It’s much safer.

Finally we can proceed to web design. Choosing the design of your website is extremely important. Nowadays the net is full of free flash templates, free website templates and so on. Any of these templates will require some technical skills and definitely you will have to purchase a copy of Adobe Flash or Adobe Dreamweaver which is not cheap. One people say  it’s easy to build a website in notepad, other may assure you there is nothing easier than building a website using Flash CS3. Both assumptions are false. You need serious web design experience and education both for HTML coding and Flash animation and programming.  Sometimes I even believe that all free templates are created to assure the customer that the easiest way to make a website is to pay for professional design and customization service

Anyway, a good solution we would like to offer you is AuroraFlash Site builder which allows you to make a website for free, without any special skills, without expensive software like Dreamweaver, Frontpage or Adobe Flash.  But the final choice is yours.

How To Money With a Website. Sure if you have a website you would like to make some cash.  There are dozens of ways to make cash online. The easiest are advertising and selling links from your site. I will tell more about this very important aspect in my next article.