A Comprehensive Tutorial on Creating English Website Templates

Many beginners who have never built a website are curious about how to create their own website, what they need to prepare, and the steps involved. Before diving into the details, it is essential to understand the key components of a complete website: domain name, web hosting (server), and website program.

When building a website, it is crucial to determine the type of website you want to create, whether it’s an enterprise site, an online store, or a personal blog.

1. Online Website Building Platforms
   Online website-building platforms have been around for a long time, with Vanke, Jianzhan ABC, and other platforms as representatives. These platforms differ from traditional website building methods. They are suitable for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), individuals, and personal blogs with simple requirements. They are mainly used for simple showcases and cannot support complex features. Many websites that use online website-building platforms for a while may find various drawbacks and then choose to rebuild their sites using a website management system.

   • Advantages: Simple operation; the back-end and front-end templates are provided in advance without the need for modifications.
   • Disadvantages: No provision of source code; the site is controlled by the platform, unable to migrate or customize; all websites share a common server, resulting in an unstable website with slow speed and frequent outages. Search engines may not include this site, which hinders optimization.

2. Selecting a Website System
   Different website systems offer different functions, such as e-commerce platforms equipped with payment and order features for enterprise websites with information needs. According to your own requirements, select the appropriate website source code. Many people may wonder why it is not necessary to purchase server or virtual hosting space first but rather to choose website source code.
   Because different types of website source code require selection of different servers or virtual host spaces and runtime environments for website source code, so it is better to choose the website source code first in order to know what type of server space needs to be purchased and what kind of running environment needs to be built.

   When choosing website source code, select well-known sources. Well-known source codes mean that more people are using them, with mature functions and high security. There are many poor-quality open-source codes on the Internet, most of which have either incomplete features or security vulnerabilities.

   Websites management system (CMS) construction: This is currently the mainstream method for website construction. The CMS is also known as a content management system (CMS). Through the CMS website system, front-end pages can be freely customized according to your own needs without high technical requirements.

   There are many CMSs on the market, with some famous ones being Pageadmin, Discz, and Ecshop, etc. Each CMS is suitable for different fields, such as Pageadmin for enterprise unit websites, Discz and Phpwind for forum websites, Ecshop for e-commerce websites, Z-blog for blog websites, and so on. The learning of CMS website systems is relatively simple. Generally speaking, it can be easily masteredwithin a few days to a month.

   • Advantages: Powerful back-end functions, good extensibility, freely customizable front-end templates, and the ability to create the desired website without high technical requirements.
   • Disadvantages: The need to purchase virtual hosting or server space on your own. Compared with online website building, you need to master FTP upload operations. In fact, this is not a significant disadvantage.

   Summary: Currently, more than 9% of websites are built using CMS website management systems. Many people find website companies to build their websites. In fact, most of these website companies use CMS to build websites, and few will develop a set of CMS systems on their own due to the high technical and cost requirements, and the ones developed are not as good as professional CMSs.

   Someone may wonder if it is possible to create a Taobao-like platform with CMS. In theory, it can be done, but since Taobao has extremely many modules and functions that have undergone more than a decade of continuous iteration and升级to develop today. Therefore, it is very laborious to develop these modules from scratch. Moreover, in terms of business, there is no feasibility. Even if you can create a website exactly like Taobao, you still cannot attract a large number of users to use it, and it will only be a默默无闻website that nobody knows. In the end, it’s all in vain. Therefore, the key to a website is not the design but the development of profit models, follow-up operations, and promotion.

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