Claiming Your Own Little Corner of the Web

Q. I am an emeritus professor and a bilingual author of vital articles and novels. I’d like to install a private website to preview my future publications and draw readers, but I am far from a laptop professional. What is the most convenient and inexpensive way to do so?

A. Creating a personal website online has to be reasonably accessible. In the early days of the net, the technique involved finding server areas, shopping for a site called, and knowing enough about coding to make pages. Today, you can get the server area, the area name, and easy-to-use page templates for only some bucks a month — or even lose.

Some universities may offer email and website services to alumni and retired faculty. If that isn’t always an option, you could use a paid provider or a free blog/personal website builder. Paid offerings usually offer technical help and customer support, while assistance with free offerings is often constrained to online boards and pages for frequently asked questions.

WordPress.com is a famous, less expensive alternative that offers various month-to-month plans; it also has an advert-supported free version. The organization’s least steeply-priced strategy is about $3 a month. It supplies a custom area name, site protection, advert-loose pages, and six gigabytes of storage, which should have lots of room for text articles, photos, and short videos. WordPress.Com has more than 350 visual designs to pick from. Growing pages isn’t always tougher than using a word-processing program or importing pictures to a social networking website.

Although the internet copes with is comparable, the WordPress.Org web page provides an unfastened copy of the internet publishing software program to download. However, you want to locate your net-server organization to host your site if you no longer have an online home for it already.

Other business website companies to consider include TypePad (fees begin at about $nine a month), Wix ($10 a month if the free version isn’t appropriate), and Squarespace ($12 a month for a private website online).

The internet is full of complimentary services for quickly creating your weblog or page. Google’s Blogger and SimpleSite are the most popular contenders. However, they no longer give you much control over the appearance of your website or the commercials that appear on your pages.

There isn’t any fancy ‘legal professional communication licensing right here. Open Source has always been at the heart of WordPress—we positioned it at the heart of SBT. Take it, use it, and give top stuff back to the community.

Constant benchmarking towards WordPress’s QA device – Theme Check – guarantees that SBT constantly adheres to ultra-modern WordPress standards and practices. Currently, SBT passes 100% of 10796 checks.

SitePoint Base Theme supports quite a few famous web page builders out of the box, such as Divi Builder, Beaver Builder, Visual Composer, SiteOrigin Page Builder, and Element Page Builder.

SBT is speedy—you’ll start with 500kb pages. More importantly, we intend to keep it that way, going for walks, using the 24-hour-a-day benchmark, and trying to ensure regular code performance. Missiles get released if our Pingdom benchmarks drop beneath 95/100.