6 Essential Reasons to Start Your Own Website

For centuries, people have found hundreds of ways to communicate and collaborate for both professional and personal aims. Still, since the time when the Internet came into play, these directions of human activity have witnessed really prominent progress. It got especially significant and impressive for the last decade, with broader availability of the Internet and development of new technology. Decent ten or twenty years ago having a website was seen as a sort of luxury while today it is often a widely-used and important factor of personal, professional, and business growth.

There is a great number of big and small goals standing behind the incredible variety of websites whose number seems to grow every single minute. According to Internet Live Stats, there are over 1 billion websites in the World Wide Web today. This milestone was first reached in September of 2014, as confirmed by NetCraft in its October 2014 Web Server Survey, and first estimated and announced by Internet Live Stats. The number had subsequently declined, reverting back to a level below 1 billion due to the monthly fluctuations in the count of inactive websites before reaching again and stabilizing above the 1 billion mark starting in March of 2016. In general, this is the sort of story of the amazing path from 1 website in 1991 to 1 billion websites in 2014.

No wonder, more and more people are thinking over the idea of setting their websites and they come to this decision along the different ways reaching various life destinations. Let’s review the most popular reasons that make people work over their websites either by themselves or hiring professionals for that job, and in some cases applying both of the mentioned options. The ideas will be supported by web design concepts accomplished by Tubik designers and corresponding to particular objectives.

E-commerce

Nowadays this reason would definitely take its place in the top. With better technical abilities to present goods and services as well as fast and secure payments enabled via the Internet, more and more people take opportunities of buying and selling online, right from their desktop. It can deal even with the case of personal websites if people both communicate and sell the goods or services they produce via this website. So, getting real financial profit can be named among the prominent reasons for creating a website. Moreover, modern content-management systems support this aim with tools and features strengthening the website rates in search browsers.

Design concept of the online comic bookshop

Design concept of the randomizer for an e-commerce platform

Design concept of the website for a bakery

Business presentation

Another reason, connected with professional activity and encouraging more people to start their websites, is the presentation of their business, whatever its nature and scale. It can be anything from a simple one-page website that provides a basic description of the professional and contact information to a complex web platform that offers a variety of business directions or an extensive portfolio. The core distinguishing feature compared to the previous position is that this website doesn’t provide a full cycle of direct sales from order to payment and delivery; its aim is to present the services or goods, as well as the ways of getting them. This may be why we see not only fully packed websites with broad functionality but also landing pages that fulfill the same need.

Web design concept for a company organizing open-air events

Web design concept for a company organizing hot-air balloon rides

Web design concept for an architectural bureau 

Design concept for the interior design studio

Sharing information

This is the reason why people set up diverse blogs and websites aimed at sharing information: these can be online magazines and newspapers, thematic collections and bloggers’ reviews etc. It is usually not intended for direct communication but rather provides users with up-to-date information.

Design concept of an online newspaper

Design concept of the online magazine devoted to travelling

Web design for the blog devoted to design news and trends

Education

Another reason to launch the website is the ability and desire to provide educational materials and/or communication. These can include personal teachers’ blogs, interactive encyclopedias, or online course platforms.

Web design for the online encyclopedia

Communication

The Internet presents great and easily available opportunities for communication, so communication can be one more good reason for creating a website, like blogs with direct discussions, forums, social networks for general or special themes, etc.

Design concept of a social network for sports fans

Self-expression and practice

Sometimes, people create a website to find a platform to express their creativity and try particular skills, such as creative writing. Again, the complexity and quality of these websites can vary widely, but the underlying drivers are self-expression and growth.

Design concept of a personal blog devoted to architecture

This list is not exhaustive, as it covers only some of the most common reasons for creating websites. Stay tuned and don’t miss the new articles analyzing all the mentioned directions in closer detail.

Originally written for Tubik Blog

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