how to make a website?

[Eili]

how much does it cost? how long does it take for us to get paid from ads of it?
me and my friend decided to make a website for people who want to sell their unused items for other people on our college campus and we already got adverting ideas to make the website big on campus we just need to start. How long does it take for it to get setup?... any thoughts we should concern?

[Matthew]

It would take an incredibly long time to learn all the knowledge to even have a successful attempt at it (months). You'd have to learn about hosting, SEO, purchasing a domain, optimizing and maintaining a website, HTML, etc.

However, SEO is not necessary if you're only going to make this website 'location limited' (Your college only). If that's the case, then it wouldn't take a long time at all. You could set everything up within a week at most.

Hosting might cost you $10/month and the domain would cost around $10 a year. Make a catchy domain that is not to long and easy to remember. Limit it to less than ~10 characters. You might have to purchase the layout and applications for your website unless you could make it with your own team and those cost in the hundreds of $$$.

Also, to get paid for advertisements on your website, you'd have to apply for a company like Google or Yahoo!/Bing who sells 'clicks' on the ads for $$$. In order to even get accepted, you'd have to have a near-complete website with content on it.
Let me run the summary of what would happen:
0) Learn the information
1) Buy domain + hosting
2) Setup website with everything
3) SEO work/advertisements (optional for SEO)
4) ???
5) Profit

[Jake]

Yea it's far from a sure thing, competing with Ebay is a technical as well as a business challenge. The easiest sort of site to start with are passive information sites like a blog, which can earn some advertising revenue if it attracts a lot of viewers. Creating a site catering primarily to one campus would pre-limit the growth potential (though Facebook grew one school at a time at first)

A web search for "ebay clone script" or marketplace web site script, should turn up some preprogrammed web site templates costing perhaps $100, you still need someone with web site development experience to install and customize such a site script, you can probably find starving computer geeks on campus who work cheap, alternatively there are countless oversees workers who work for a relatively small amount at marketplaces like elance.com, odesk.com, vworker.com who could do the installation and perhaps act as webmaster.
This nice list of such scripts includes Wordpress themes, wordpress is a blog platform adaptable to other applications that reduces the amount of coding required, it's used in some 17% of the top 1 million sites/ http://www.scriptcopy.com/ebay-clone-script/

A small local focused business like you are thinking of might be more successful if you copied the "I sold it on ebay" store concept, where you act as a middleman, accepting merchandise and taking care of the process of listing it on Ebay for a fee (Between ebay and the store fees, people end up making less than the service fees)

[Andra]

Different number of languages like PHP, Dot Net, Java and many more are adopted by an engineer to make a website. The time requirement depends upon the designer who is making that particular website. If you have not started yet then you must take some advice from an experienced developer.

[taxi]

domain registration at only $25.00 one time fee it will be your ownership
web hosting ie web space on the server $180.00/ year

web design and web development for eCommerce buying and selling features cost you from above $550.00 as per your requirements


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