At one time, making a website involved a degree of technical knowledge, and cost money. These days, there are a wealth of easy-to-use tools to help you make your website, and in many cases, these tools are free.
Simple Answer
If you want to create a site now, in the time it takes to make a cup of coffee, this tutorial will show you how to make a free website using Google Sites. There’s a user guide and video here.
Google Site Creator
- Go to Google Sites
- Click the “create site” button
- Enter a site name, description and choose a theme
- Enter the security code
- Hit publish
It really is that easy! You can then add pages, links and other media to your web page. Google also offers tips on how to promote your site, and make money.
More Complicated Answer
If you want more control over your site than offered by Google Sites, then you’ll want to take a different approach. This involves understanding web hosting and page publishing.
First, let take a look at the steps:
- Build individual web pages
- Link the pages together to form a website
- Host the pages on the internet
- Promote your website
The basic unit of a web site is the individual web page. A web page can contain words, images, videos and various other files. In order to publish a page, you can either hand-code a page, which requires some coding knowledge, or you can use page creation software.
Wordpress Content Management Software
Check out page creation software called WordPress. WordPress offers free content management software that makes it easy for anyone to publish sophisticated, feature rich sites. You can establish a WordPress site for free, or set it up on your own web host. Setting up a website on a host is outside the scope of this article, but you can find some great introductory advice on web hosting on W3Schools
In order to promote your site, you should ask friends to link to your site. You can also link to you site from your Facebook page, or any other social media pages you may have. Also, read up on search engine optimization, a process whereby you attempt to gain high places in the search engine results.
Hope this helps 
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