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Designing of Web Site

After domain name and hosting space are reserved, next comes the phase of designing of website. You can go for any of the following options:

1) You can do the direct HTML coding in your favourite text editor. Two text editors that I like are "Blufish Web Editor" for Linux and "Notepad++" for Windows. These editors support all the functionality that is generally required. And above all, they are free of cost.

2) You can use some WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor. Many commercial editors like Dreamweaver and Front Page are present, which provide very good facilites for designing any kind of professional quality website. If you do not want to pay, you can go for alterantive free editors like NVU.

3) Many web hosting comapanies provide online ready made templates for creating websites. You can check whether your provider gives such scripts and can use them. But generally these kinds of tamplates are not suitable for designing of a professional quality website. However, these templates are very good for designing personal websites for introducing yourself.

4) You can also go for Content Management Systems (CMS). Two very popular free CMS are Joomla and Drupal. These CMS can be adjusted according to your needs and you can fully configure them according to your requirements. For example, this website is running on Drupal.

Once you have created the design for website, you can upload the content for it.