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  A website plays a major role in building the image of any brand at all whether it is a personal brand or a cooperate brand. Having a website as a personal or cooperate brand is essential as it helps you in the area of time management, It’s critical that you back up your efforts with a website that clearly explains who you are, what you do, and why your service is superior to the competition’s(your unique selling point). If you can get your website to work for you, you’ll be able to focus and give your time to other things that also matter in running your business.
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Writers, content creators, coaches & trainers, graphic designers, video creators amongst many other creative needs to have a professional website because it gives your brand a touch of p However, as much as the need for a website is well known, owning a website isn’t a walk in the park, it’s well known that creating a website with or without coding by oneself can be quite challenging and complicating, meanwhile, assigning that task to an expert in the field(Web designer or website developer) might cost a lot. Below is how you can go about building a website on a budget.  In building a website you can either go for one which is totally free or one you have to spend money on.  As expected, the one you’ll have to spend money on is better because you actually get to buy a domain from your host, a website like oioi.com is one a domain has been purchased for while a website like oioi.wordpress.com is one that doesn’t have its own domain yet and still uses that of WordPress or any other host that’s the suffix. 
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To build a website on a budget, firstly opt for the website builder you’ll be utilising, in selecting a website builder, make sure the use of your website is explicitly stated whether it’ll be used as a blog, an online store, or a one-page website etc. This would help the selection process.  A website builder is perhaps the simplest and most efficient way to have a website up and running in minutes. It is a piece of software that allows you to create a website or blog without having to know how to code. You’ll be using drag and drop items, as well as some templates because there’s no coding involved. Here are some websites builders which you can use to build a website on a budget. 
  1. Nextdaysite
  2. Site 123
  3. Ucraft
  4. Strikingly 
  5. Weebly
  6. Carrd
  7. Jimdo
  8. WordPress 
These are very few amongst many others. 
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Each of them has both a free and a paid plan, the procedure of building a website with each of the website builders has its own peculiarities but the major common procedure is;
  1. sign up on the website builder.
  2. Customise the Web design, edit the page templates and put in all other necessary edits.
  3. Get your website published and you’re good to go.
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This article was first published on 22nd April 2022

chidiogo-akaelu

Chidiogo Shalom Akaelu holds a degree in English and Literary Studies, from the University of Nigeria. She is a freelance writer, editor and founder of Loana Press, a budding online publishing outlet.

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