How to Build a Free Website With Ads

By Ty Arthur

Overview

There are many reasons to build a website, such as offering a personal website with information about yourself, a fan website for a band or TV series, or even a club website so that members can find out the latest club news. If you don't want to pay a monthly fee for a specific domain name you can build a website for free, although it will have advertisements on the page placed by the web host.

How to Build a Free Website With Ads

Step 1

Compare the free website packages offered by the various web hosting companies and choose the one that has the features most appropriate to the type of site you want to build (see Resources below for some hosting companies). Take into account the amount of storage space offered for holding images and other files, the amount of bandwidth available (to enable more people to view your site each month) and the size of their pre-placed advertisements on each page.
Step 2

Go to the sign-up section of the web hosting company's site and type in your information such as name, zip code and date of birth. Choose the domain name you want for your site from their list of available names and finish the registration process.

Step 3

Access the web host's file managing area and choose the option to upload files. Upload any images you have on your hard drive that you want to use on your website, such as a logo, diagrams, photographs or drawings.
Step 4

Click on the option to edit the main HTML file for your website. Type in the <TITLE> tag inside the <HEAD> HTML tag and specify what title you want to appear at the top of the user's web browser, such as <TITLE="My New Website!">.
Step 5

Type in whatever text you want to appear on your site inside the opening and closing <BODY> and </BODY> HTML tags. Arrange the content and break it up so that it is more easily readable by using the and tags to make new paragraphs and lines. Modify the text with different color by using the tag and use different formatting tags such as for bold and for italics.
Step 6

Makes the images you have uploaded appear on the website by using the <IMG SRC> HTML tag. Type in the location of the image after the tag such as <IMG SRC="http://mynewsite.com/mypicture.jpg">.
Step 7

Break up your website into multiple pages so that the content is easier to navigate. Go to the file manager and add in an extra HTML file. Edit your original HTML file and include a link to the second page by using the <A HREF> tag such as <A HREF="http://mynewsite.com/secondpage.html">.

Skill: Moderate
Tip: If you want to draw more visitors to your site you will need to update your website's text with search engine optimization techniques so that it will appear in more people's search engine results.
Tip: If you are willing to learn more HTML coding you can take advantage of more advanced techniques such as breaking up your website up frames or using cascading style sheets to arrange your content.
Warning:
Although there is HTML code available to hide the advertisements that your web host puts on your site, it is always against the terms of service to do so and may lead to your site being deleted.
Take into account the size of each image you put on your website, as it will take much longer for users with slower Internet connections to load them.

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