Get a Website Developed For Cheap Using Free WordPress Themes

Initial stages of creating a cheap website is planning as to what you need and then the following steps play a larger role for keeping the costs reduced and cheap.

Domain name: Definitely the name of the website has to be booked in order to create your cheap website and of course this is the first step. You can try using namecheap or Godaddy or some hosting companies offer cheap hosting along with free domain for life so you can check them out as well.

Hosting: Shared hosting companies like Bluehost etc should be good for your initial investment into building your cheap website. They are filled with single click installation of WordPress and doesn't require any kind of coding knowledge to do the same. All you have to do is buy domain and hosting. Ask hosting company to help you point the domain name properly into your cpanel account and then install WordPress by simple single click into your hosting root folder and there you go. You got yourself your website url and a default WordPress website. Now all you got to do is login into your WordPress dashboard and start what the next steps are about to tell you.

Design and Coding: This is where most users fumble and hence the idea of using a free WordPress themes comes into picture.

Why Free? Because the budget is small and tight and you need a cheap website since this is your first foray into websites and you don't know if this idea will really click or not. Hence trying to check Free WordPress themes which have a decent coding and are mostly GPL so that you don't fall into any legal issues.

Searching for a free WordPress theme is simple and easy. All you need to do is login into your WordPress admin dashboard of your website www.example.com/wp-admin and then go to Appearance>Themes which is where themes are loaded. Click on Add new and search for the type of theme you need. They have search there as well as popular themes list and the list of latest themes.

Go through and browse through these free WordPress themes and click on Download on the one which you like in terms of screenshot, look and feel and in terms of demo. Many free themes have demo link written in their description which means all you need to do is copy their demo link and check if this appears to be the kind of website look and feel you need for your website.

Many free WordPress themes built recently include the following:

Documentation: Documentation is important since this is your first try into using a site builder and using WordPress CMS hence a simple documentation would mean you can easily install the theme and follow the next steps to create a simple website just like the one shown in the demo. With a few steps here and there you should be able to have your first website ready within hours from the start.

Decent Support: Support is important and sometimes things which are obvious for others doesn't seem right for you. For example uploading of slider images and you may ask for slider dimensions. How to set the front page right to not show blog and several other questions which might need answering from the community which uses the theme or the theme author. Hence check for free WordPress themes which have decent support and where authors have answered questions asked by users.

Stock Images: Stock images are essential in order to make your cheap website look worthwhile the time of your customers and to make your visitors like what they see on your website. Most free WordPress themes come with stock photos and still if you don't find them suitable you can search for the ones in pixabay, unsplash and sxc.hu websites which offer GPL compatible free images for Commercial Use on your Website.

SEO: WordPress CMS became popular because it is SEO ready. All you have to do is add any of the plugin between all in one SEO or WordPress SEO by Yoast and configure it properly to have meta tags in your website working properly like title, heading, alt and keyword and description tags.

Commenting: Since you need traffic and traffic should also interact with you and others you can have commenting on your blog. So commenting plugins like Disqus, Facebook comments, and intense debate etc are readily available in the form of plugins in WordPress. All you need to do is add them via plugins section and you are ready to go to use them. Not much configuration is needed and anyone without coding knowledge can be able to set them up. WordPress also comes with default commenting system but approving and comment spam are other issues that come with it hence considering use of Disqus is a good choice.

Forums: In case you need forum for supporting community in near future you have bbpress which can be readily integrated into your WordPress powered website. So opening a support forum tomorrow for community is not a distant dream.

Newsletter Sign up: Of course you got to have newsletters and send few emails about what you are doing to your customers or pre-launch your product to your customers for feedback before launching it out for public. For this you need to capture subscribers. There are a host of plugins which tie up with free services like mailchimp, mailerlite etc which allow upto 1000-2000 subscribers for free. Initially you can do away with such free services and later move on with any of the company for a paid service when your subscribers and website grow.

Analytics: You need to watch who your subscribers are and what are the bounce rates well then you can definitely use Google analytics which is free and can be easily integrated using a plugin for the same.

Off Page SEO: For Offpage SEO you can do social networking sharing using hootsuite, buffer and similar services which link many social networks together for article or content sharing. You can also submit your website using linkexpress and submitexpress which submits your website to various search engines. You may also use Google, and Bing Webmaster tools for configuring sitemap of your website in 3 major search engines namely Google, Yahoo and Bing.

Ecommerce: In future you want to sell something or you want to sell some cool stuff right from the start just install WooCommerce and start using the shop ready with PayPal integration. All you need to do is configure the settings and you are good to go. It also has options (which are paid) for credit card payment gateways and other cool stuff.

Thus the above given options really make your time as well as efforts towards installing WordPess and using a free WordPress theme thus keeping your costs down and making your website for cheap.

A Premium WordPress theme that can meet all ends and requirements is what everyone desires for the payment they make. This theme is both flexible in terms of functionality and its uses as well as adaptable for any type of industry and domains.