STEP #1: Choose Your Website Platform Before you start worrying about colour schemes and domain names, you’ve got to decide what platform you’re going to build your website with. What do I mean by “platform”? Well, back in 2004 when I got started with web development, most sites were built using HTML (code), CSS and even Flash. These took a lot of time to learn and were tricky to master. That’s why most people still think creating a website from scratch is difficult or requires a lot of coding and design skills – but that’s no longer true! In 2016, content management systems (CMS) like WordPress have made creating a website accessible to everyone. To put simply, a content management system (or website building platform) is a user-friendly platform for building websites and managing your own online content, instead of using a bunch of loose HTML pages. Why WordPress and not website builders? Because at this point there are no better/easier ways to build a website… But ...