The Internet is part of our everyday life. It’s hard to imagine what our lives would be like if the Internet disappeared. The global network gives us opportunities to communicate, get information, sell and buy.
With the help of the Internet, everyone can start a business, create a website or create a portal and earn money. It is not necessary to sell something. If you are an expert in your business, a real expert, create a free informational website, and on its pages talk about what you know well, give advice or publish guidelines for solving specific problems.
An information site is a resource whose main purpose is to publish useful information. On the Internet, you can find versatile information sites designed for different purposes – from encyclopedias (Wikipedia) and directories to general news sites (MonacoTribune).
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How to create an information portal?
General information sites usually have a very wide audience: everyone reads useful information or news today. At the same time, niche news (narrow topics, such as knitting, online education, or skiing) will be read by a narrower audience of those who are really interested in it and in whose life it occupies an important place. With quality and interesting content, casual visitors to information sites quite quickly turn into regular readers, add them to bookmarks and visit them quite regularly.
Before you create an information portal, you need to think about its structure, the purpose of creation, and to imagine the target audience of the project. Based on this, you can choose the site design. For example, if your information portal is dedicated to skiing, its design will be different from the site for young mothers or the portal, which tells about the stock market and securities.
The structure of the news portal usually contains several standard blocks. This can be a feed of news or announcements, a section with articles or a blog, it should be supplemented by a description of the project, contact information, and a section for advertisers, depending on the subject resource, it can be a photo or video gallery.
Universal recipes on how to create a portal or create a news site do not exist. However, the main thing to remember is that the structure of the site should be clear and not cause difficulties in navigation between the sections. A very useful element for an information site will be linked within the articles to its other sections and articles.
The main wealth of an information web resource is useful content. It is thanks to this component that the information portal can form a stable core audience of readers in which advertisers will be interested. However, even the highest-quality content can have low value for users if the site is uncomfortable, its structure is not thought through or the design does not match its goals.
Designing a website is not an easy task; it requires technical knowledge. However, this task can be easily solved by using online website builders, which will provide a ready-made design and structure to create a portal, and you will only have to fill it with content.
