How to start a website for free is a question asked by thousands if not millions of people a day. There are several free tools available to you online in order for you to create a website. We will be discussing a few of these tools in more detail for you to create your own website. But in order for you to have a website live online, you will need a domain name and a hosting account, which will cost you a little money. You can purchase a domain name for about $10 a year and a hosting account for around $5 a month. I know we said that we wanted to do this for free and you will be doing it for free but in order to have your website online live to the world, you will have to spend that money to do so.

The first thing you will need is an HTML editing software. The software that I use is Kompozer and it is a free HTML editing software that you can download to your computer and start developing a website. Kompozer is very easy to use and will help you to develop the skills that it takes to develop a website. If you’re really interested in creating and developing your own site you need to learn some HTML coding that will further develop your design skills. I know it sounds a little scary, talking about coding but all skills are learnable. I guess you are willing to learn the skills if you were wanting to know how to build your own website.

The second thing you’ll need is an FTP ( File Transfer Protocol) client. All an FTP client does is transfer files from your computer to your hosting account. Let’s say, you have some pictures you won’t put on your website but they’re on the desktop of your computer. You need to be able to move the images from your computer to your website hosting account. This is all that a FTP client does, it transfers files from your computer to the Internet. I use Filezilla, which is a free FTP client that you can download to your desktop and transfer your files to your website online. Note, it will take some getting used to but you must have some type of FTP client in order to upload your files to the Internet.

You must have these two tools in order to develop and upload your website to the Internet. Now it doesn’t have to be the two pieces software that I have recommended here, you can choose which ever you want. These two are free and available and I use them every day. You are asking how to start a website for free are you not? As times get harder and money gets shorter people all around the world are trying to learn the skills that it takes to create a website without spending a dime. It can be done, but like I said in the beginning you still need a domain name and a hosting account which will cost you a little bit of money.