how do you start a successful website?

Question

how much does it cost to start a website

Answer 1

If you need to have it designed for you it will cost much more. Think $500-$5000.

Answer 2

Research, research, research – this cannot be stressed enough. Read as much as you can. Here are some book titles that are relevant:

* Make Your Small Business Web Site Work: Easy Answers to Content, Navigation, and Design
by John Heartfield
* Small Websites, Great Results by Doug Addison
* The Complete E-Commerce Book: Design, Build, and Maintain a Successful Web-Based Business by Janice Reynolds
* Six-Week Start-Up: A Step-By-Step Program for Starting Your Business, Making Money, and Achieving Your Goals! by Rhonda Abrams

There are plenty of free informational resources out there. Check the source box for links to articles.

Hope that helps! I wish you much success & happiness in all your ventures!

Answer 3

To start a successful website, you have to see that a website by itself is just a representation of a real world business.

Amazon and Yahoo have huge offices that employ thousands of people. And yet most people know them as just a website. Like any other small business.

To make a successful website you have to start out with a real business, that TAKES ADVANTAGE, of the internet's dynamicness and pervasiveness. Amazon and Ebay are the best examples of such websites.

Now if you are referring to how to make a website well known, that is a complex process of marketing on the web. Which is an entire process on its own.

You are, in my opinion, going in the right direction. You are asking people how to make a successful website. Since you don't know, and there is no simple answer, at least you have taken the very first step to being a success.

Good luck in all your endeavors

PS to start you off please check out http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/0,4621,304988,00.html

Answer 4

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Answer 5

For your first one, it costs nothing. Here's a good place to start and an example

Answer 6

you can get hosting for $3.99 a month and a domain name for $1.99 a year at godaddy.com (last I heard they were still running the $1.99 special).

Doesn't get much cheaper than that.

Answer 7

find some hot chicks that are willing to let you take pictures of them while they have sexual relations with animals, furniture, automobiles, pretty much anything...

Answer 8

as much as it takes