1. Plan your objective:  The objective or purpose of designing a website should be clear in your mind. Decide what you want to show the world with the medium of your website. Also, decide whether the website is for professional purpose or personal. Try to sketch out what you want your website to look like after you design it completely and leave space for content, pictures and title or logo.
 
2. Write your own content: You must know what information do you want to publish on your website and what your target audience so that you write according to them if the website is personal then you may not need to make so much efforts to get content in proper way. However, if your website is for professional purpose then you must make sure that your content should be completely relevant as many people globally can count on that for your company. Search for topics and make your content to impress people. The content that you upload should be influential so that you get maximum followers this way you can increase traffic on your website and improve sales. Whatever content you write should be readable, short in length, bulleted points and must have necessary keywords for search engines to index.
 
3. Format you text for web: You must make sure that you format your test in order to make your website look good. Internet browsers look for instructional in your content that tells them how to arrange your words and images on the screen. These tags are a part of the language that is use to design a website like HTML, CSS etc… All this is necessary so as everything is align properly on your website and not scattered.
 
4. Adding pictures: Put only relevant images on your website that are attractive. Try not to put high-resolution pictures on your website as they might slow down your website loading time. This will frustrate your visitors, as they might not be having high internet speed to load heavy files fast. You can download images from net or get them clicked. So not download pictures that are copyrights of someone as this can put you into trouble.
 
5. Get your website live: Last step of creating website is to get it live, as the designing job is over. For that, you need a web-hosting server so that people all over the globe can view your website. This will give your website or company global recognition. Choose a unique domain name for your website so that you get a USP.
 
If you are a small business owner then you must get Small Business Website Design from a good design company, as doing it yourself would be problematic. Also, make sure that the company provides you with all Web Design Service.