--- title: "How to Make Your Own Website: Complete Guide" description: Complete guide on how to create your own website from scratch for beginners. Starting from choosing a platform, domain, hosting, to building a website with WordPress and Elementor. canonical: https://penasihathosting.com/en/how-to-make-your-own-website-complete-guide type: guide locale: en updated: 2025-05-19 author: Willya Randika --- # How to Make Your Own Website: Complete Guide ## Overview - **Summary:** Complete guide on how to create your own website from scratch for beginners. Starting from choosing a platform, domain, hosting, to building a website with WordPress and Elementor. - **Author:** Willya Randika ([profile](/penulis/willya-randika)) ## Article I wrote this guide on how to create a website to help beginners who want to learn to create their own website without needing to master coding or spend money on hiring the services of a web designer and developer. I'm sure most of you will succeed. What is needed? You only need to invest a few hours of your time and following a good guide. A few hours? Yes, in reality, no one can create a website in a short time. It is not realistic for beginners to be able to create a website in 30 or 60 minutes as is often promised by some sources. And a good guide? I believe you are in the right place now. This guide consists of 5 chapters, and we will start from chapter 1 first, namely the chapter on choosing the best platform. Chapters 2 - 5 will be divided into separate pages. Let's start from chapter 1.![Memilih platform pembuatan website](https://img.penasihathosting.com/2025/cara-membuat-website/cara-membuat-website.webp "Memilih platform pembuatan website") ## Chapter 1: Choosing the Best Platform There are more than 100+ platforms available to date. Choosing one of them is the first decision you need to make. I'll guide you to the best: easy to learn, free and one that already has a large community. ### **First of all, what is a platform?** In the past, around 2004 or 2005, [creating a website](/en/how-to-make-your-own-website-complete-guide/) was difficult. You need to at least learn CSS and HTML to create a website. Not to mention learning how to design a website before coding it. It's not easy, it takes time and maybe you need to go to a remote place to focus on studying it. In 2024, in fact you don't even need to learn all that to create a website that can increase your income/sales in the online world, because some people have created a platform that can make it easier for you to create a website. With the platform, you can create your own website without needing to take training courses. ### What is the Best Platform for Creating a Website? There are many platform options that you can choose to create a website. There were over a hundred of them when I checked on the site [W3Tech](https://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/content_management). According to statistics, these are the most used platforms:![Statistik platform website terpopuler](https://img.penasihathosting.com/2025/cara-membuat-website/cms-market-share-may-2025.webp "Statistik platform website terpopuler") As you can see in the statistics above, WordPress is the most popular platform in the world with a market share of 43%. **The Question:** Why is WordPress so popular? Because WordPress… * Easy to use / user-friendly * FREE and no ads will be embedded on your website * Has a large community * Websites built with it will appear responsive on all devices including mobile phones and tablets **What about other platforms, such as website builders: WIX, Squarespace and Weebly?** They are a great platform choice as well. It just has some limitations, such as: * Not free * Need to choose a minimum plan which costs $8.5/month (WIX) to remove ads * Limited bandwidth and storage on the cheapest plan (WIX) * The website you place on their platform is not 100% yours For those of you who are just starting out, I recommend using WordPress. I personally also use WordPress on all the websites I own (including [Hosting Advisor](https://penasihathosting.com/)) and I believe WordPress will be a good fit for you too. And the good news: you will learn how to create your own website using WordPress in this guide.