Virtual reality is an integral part
of our lives today. Profile pages on the different social networks are common
things for internet users. The recent trend is to have a personal website, a
platform where a person may talk about himself and his hobbies, share his
achievements and find co-thinkers, make money or just have fun. The only
question is: «How a person with no experience can build a website?»
Several years ago people who wanted
to get a website had to contact professional web studios. Needless to say it
was not a cheap pleasure. Today everything had changed, there are a lot of
platforms that allow to build a website even if a person has no experience in
programming and web design.
What
is CMS?
These kind of platforms are called
CMS (Content Management Systems) and are very popular among users all over the
world. Starting to create a webresource on CMS user gets an interface where he
can publish and edit different kinds of content (texts, images, gifs, videos,
music etc.). To organize the content he uses a ready made templates, a lot of them is possible to get for free. To
make a website more functional is easy, too. In order to do it just upload
relevant plugins (forms for forums, feedbacks, testimonials, payment systems
and others).
What
are the most popular CMS?
There are a lot of CMS for different
purposes. The most popular CMS is WordPress (every forth webresource on the
Internet is created on it!). WordPress was found like a platform for personal
blogs but now it is possible to create another kinds of projects (blogs for
brand promotion, news portals, online shops and others).
If you are thinking about eCommerce,
than pay your attention to Joomla CMS. As usual, this platform is perfect for
serious commercial projects, official websites of governmental and
non-governmental organizations, news portals and corporate networks.
Except for these CMS there are a lot
of other platforms. Among the most well-known there are Drupal, Magento,
1C-Bitrix, phpBB and others. You may find a lot of information about them on
Internet.
How
to build a website? What web hosting to choose?
According to the type of the website
you want to build you can choose the most suitable CMS. After doing it you
should think about web hosting to make your website available for users all
over the world (see the article «Web Hosting: What Is It and Why Do I Need It? 5 Naive
Questions» to get more information). Unihost provides special plans
for Wordpress and Joomla web hosting, so you may get CMS for free and be sure
that your webresource will be always up (even with a high traffic), you will
get constant updates of the platform and 24/7 professional technical support.
