How to build my first website: Web Hosting for CMS

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.

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