Making your own blog is easier than ever before, even if you aren’t tech savvy and don’t know how to code. With some help and basic resources, you can create your own professional blog up and running less than 25-minutes.
We’ll support you through the process while helping you avoid unnecessary costs and potential mistakes that most new bloggers do.
NB! Starting your own blog will cost you between 0$ to 65$ per year, depending on your expectations to your blog. We will explain you the difference.
Why to Blog and what’s in it For Me?
There are very different reasons people might decide to start a blog.
For example:
• You have an opportunity to share you knowledge and expertise, you can make a full time active income from it. But remember to have the right niche
• A high-traffic blog makes an excellent addition to your resume
• You can make important connections and grow your network
• And it could be just FUN!
We could list many more reason, but the bottom line is that blogging could be awesome experience, it could generate you a serious additional income and it could be life changing experience.
Top Site Builders Review
Website builders are for the people who consider WordPress.org too complicated to handle and meanwhile they do not have the resources to hire a web developer. To self-host a site means that you have full access to all the site files and code and can deploy them in any way you like. However, you need to have some knowledge and time to do that. Please see the difference between WordPress.com vs WordPress.org here.
A hosted site uses web space provided by a hosting company, and it can be a full-service solution for those who want to publish a site easily and quickly, without dealing with design, ongoing site maintenance, or other technical issues. From here the website builders come in to play, as said, they are super easy to use and probably it´s the fastest way to set up your website.
Most of the platforms provide simple, drag and drop tools that make creating a website simple and straightforward. However, there are major differences of the performance, some are more reliable than others while some more flexible than others.
Website builders vs. hiring a web developer?
Even today a good custom website could easily cost $3000-5000 and in most cases handling updates requires still a freelance designer and a webmaster.
The best website builders could give you almost everything you’d ever want at less than 1-3% of the cost and what is most important, you can easily login yourself and change a copy, upload images, or add new pages within seconds.
Website builders are best for:
Website builders are the perfect solution for individuals or small businesses with low budgets and who consider WordPress too complicated to handle:
• small business owners
• freelancers
• writers
• bloggers
• musicians
• artists
• photographers
• wedding planners
As mentioned 30% our projects are done while using the website builders and we believe that we have a clear understanding which builders are the best to work with. So, please dig in and find out what we have learned from our projects with our customers.