Making Your First Website

Having your own website has never been easier.

Money isn’t a problem anymore. You can host any website for free with no recurring monthly fee using providers like Netlify, Github Pages, or Vercel. Domain names can be found for less than $10 per year on Porkbun, GoDaddy, or Google Domains.

Coding isn’t a problem anymore either. Tools like Stackbit or NetlifyCMS make it easy to own a custom blog or personal website without hiring a web developer or learning how to program.

You can have a state-of-the-art website running in less than a minute with Stackbit. And yet, very few people have their own. I wonder why, in an economy where attention is so valuable yet hard to get, there aren’t much more website owners.

Is it apprehension? A lack of self-confidence? Failing to see the benefits against social networks and managed platforms? A matter of education? A lack of features?

All of the problems I just quoted can be solved by either doing your own research or combining different services together. You don’t need to have everything figured out beforehand. In fact, I never do: I just learn as I go. Keep improving your website little by little, and your skills will grow along with your self-assurance.