How to create my own website by Rohit Sinha

"Will be with me forever :)"

How I did it:

I always wanted to have my space on the www. 

I explored content management system and then started working on it. I started with wordpress then moved to Joomla and now I am on Drupal. 


In my personal opinion, after using the above CMS- Drupal is the best content management system and it makes running a website so easy. I could have programmed my website completely by myself as I am a computer science guy and know almost all the web programming languages but these CMS makes life so easy :)

If you want to have your own website and need some help feel free to contact me :)

Web Hosting: If you don't want to spend anything on creating your website then you can get free webhost and also free co.cc domain 
I added this because many people are in a big confusion that creating and running a website is an expensive affair. But in reality it is FREE !! You just need to put in some effort and time.

Lessons & tips: Okay, here I am going to write how you can do it rather than some lessons and tips. One of my goal is to write a book and the community here has helped me a lot in getting started. So, I think I can payback with this :)

1. You don't need any programming experience to create a website of your own. How to use a computer is more than enough.

2. As I mentioned above there is no need to invest anything. You can start with a free host and free domains. You are not going to get millions of hits on a personal website very second that these free host will not be able to handle. In case if your website grow large then it is very easy to migrate these CMS to new servers if you choose to go for paid server later for better performance.

Now getting started:
1. You need to decide which CMS you are going to use. I prefer Drupal personally because it is very search engine friendly and semantic. Joomla is a good option if you want to play with lot of zhing-zhang themes. Wordpress is good if you want to maintain a blog basically and they have a huge themes and modules libraries. Drupal and Joomla both are same in this case more or less. Drupal lack in themes a little bit.
You can visit their website and grab them. All of them are free and open source.

If we arrange these CMS on the level of difficulty to work with:
Wordpress (Easiest)
Joomla
Drupal (A little complex)

2. Host and domain name : x10hosting.com provide free cpanel hosting and you can get co.cc domain for free

3. How to do it ?
You can contact me for detailed description or use google. There are thousand of articles on how to install and run these CMS.

4. I will suggest you to go through these video tutorials if you are struck :
Drupal : http://www.lynda.com/Drupal-7-tutorials/essential-training/73655-2.html

Joomla : http://www.lynda.com/Joomla-1-6-tutorials/Essential-Training/61221-2.html

Wordpress : http://www.lynda.com/WordPress-3-tutorials/essential-training/71212-2.html

If you don't want to purchase these video tutorials there are other ways to get as they are readily available ;)

Resources: http://www.rohitsinha.com


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