How to Create a Website for Free

Hello! People often ask me how to create a website for free. The answer is simple: you don’t. Really, nothing is really free and everything has its price.

3 components of creating a website

With the website the cost has 3 components:

1. The first thing you would need to purchase is hosting. The average price may be around $50/year.

2. Then you would need to purchase a domain name, the average cost of which is $10/year.

3. You may also need a web design, that will cost you around $50/one time.

So you can see that the total price can be just under $100.

If you think that some companies will provide you with the whole package for free – think that they will look at you as at the investments.

There are 2 types of websites that you can create for free: Website builders and Free website templates.

Website builders

Website builders who claim to provide website for free usually have their own interest in providing free websites. Because if you build the website using their tools, they may display advertisement on your site. It means that your visitors will see this advertisement and so they may leave your website. So that may be the price you pay.

Website builders may try to convert you into customer, will try to sell you some plans, to that can be annoying.

Free website templates

If you decide to create a website with one of the free website templates then there is also can the price you pay.

Those templates are provided with zero support and zero guarantee. So if you have any issues with such templates then you will have to fix it yourself. So it means investing more time. Or you would need to hire a developer who will fix everything for you, and it can be really expensive. Even installation service from developer may cost you around $50.

Also, if you decide to use free web template you may face with link issue. Developers of free web templates may put a link in their templates and these links may be hidden means it can be hard to remove them. Those links may give you troubles with Google. So you will end up with the web site that contains harmful links, so you may lose a lot of traffic.

So the price you may pay will be a lot higher than what you save.

But still with the free website you may be lucky enough to avoid all those issues. But if you don’t want to be ashamed of your website you can at least invest into hosting and domain. It can be around $60 per year.

We hope we answered your question. Please, be careful with creating websites for free. Thank you for reading.

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