Website Building biz

It doesn’t take a huge financial or educational commitment to get started in virtual real-estate development. A good web host can be leased for under ten dollars a month, and you can expect a lot of processing power, server data storage, and bandwith for that price.

And at just $10 per year, additional domains are like untapped gold or beach-front property waiting to be developed. Every time you add articles and pages and get links pointing back to your website, you’re adding value to your property. Simply installing a content management system and posting some random day-to-day thoughts can be a virtual investment with real-life value.

Search engines value websites and domains that have been registered for longer periods of time, so there really is no reason to wait! Regardless of your interests or writing style, its possible for you to find your audience and build traffic with just a little bit of time and money. Obviously, not every website is going to be a huge money-maker, but the better ones are doing quite well - even after the dot.com bust.

CMS stands for “Content management system.”

Basically, its software you can install on your website hosting server that allows you to set up a general template for your website’s design and quickly add new pages as easily as you would post a comment on someone else’s website.

Blogging platforms like Wordpress and Blogger are quite popular, because they combine the convenience of easy to use page creation with the powerful SEO functionality of trackbacks and search engine friendly URLs. Joomla allows users to create dynamic websites with multiple layers of software, but it can be technical and hard to get started with if you don’t know much about server-side programming. TikiWiki and MediaWiki allow one to build highly interactive Wikipedia style domains in just a few clicks, and then your users can help contribute!

No doubt, CMS is the quickest way to create websites with multiple pages of unique content, and all these programs allow you to organize the hierarchy of the pages while providing full functionality for the end-user - be it comments, trackbacks, crowd-sourcing content creation (wikis).

So don’t worry about programming - just follow the directions or use an automated installation program through your website’s hosting provider.  The most technical thing you’ll probably be required to do is maintain the software and ensure that it stays up to date to avoid any security risks.

Welcome to [the] website building biz.

Are you developing your virtual real-estate yet? Its like development business in the real world, just without the million-dollar barriers to entry. Now, a lot of the prime digital land has been grabbed up by now. We missed the rush.

But its a growth industry. Every day, more people are logging on for the first time. As the internet superhighway gets more congested, the definition of prime real-estate will be changing and new technology will put old media to the test.

What does it cost? You can start with $0 if you don’t like taking risks. If you want to spend more, there’s really no limit. Even to lease your own domain and server space, you can get away with a good started package at $100 / year.

Not very much to own land in a place where people are moving in, right?