How can we create a website? In the past, the answer is to hire a professional web designer to design the website, and a professional web developer to code the site. Not only it’s typically an expensive process, but also complicated and time-consuming. Fortunately, today we live in an easier time with the availability of various website builders using the WYSIWYG (What You See is What You Get) philosophy. Today, we can create a beautiful website with just the cliks of your mouse. In the past decade, the website builder industry has......
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WordPress has been the most popular blogging and website platform/builder for quite a long time, and not without its reasons. It’s free, it’s reliable, and there are various resources and plugins contributed by the huge WordPress community, making it a very well-rounded, stable platform. However, WordPress certainly isn’t the perfect solution for everyone. There are some of us who might be looking for an easier alternative, and there are some others who might be looking for more customization opportunities. Here, we will discuss 6 of the best WordPress alternatives in 2024. Yet,......
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What Is Actually “Hosting” a Website? In a nutshell, hosting a website simply means uploading and storing the files related to your website on a server. A server, on the other hand, is a dedicated computer (or can be just a program within a computer, or another device) that is tasked with storing and managing resources. The server is a centralized resource—in this case— for the website. This process allows other people—from all around the globe— to “pull’ the necessary resources from this server and view your website. The server’s main task......
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A Brief Overview on Shopify Shopify—as the benchmark of this list— is built in one goal in mind: providing users with a solution to build a working online store quickly, even when the user has no programming knowledge. So, the main highlight of Shopify is its ease of use even for complete beginners, with various templates to choose from for both branding and functional purposes. Although we’ve stated that you don’t need any technical knowledge to build a store with Shopify, having HTML and CSS proficiency will allow you to have more......
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Weebly, WordPress, WordPress alternatives and website builders make designing your own website look super simple. You just follow the instructions, add images, write content, and you are good to go. So, this means that there’s a great value to design own website, right? Not really. Taking the DIY route with website design vs. hiring a professional is an apples and oranges comparison. Think of it as the difference between cooking at home vs. dining out at a Michelin 3-star restaurant. There are some benefits to designing your own website, including the fact that it’s easier......
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