Do you think that making a social networking website need your time and money or both? At HumDomains, with no programming skills you are ready to make a social networking website. You don't have to be a web designer or pay the price for a web designer to make your website. You don't have even pay the price of the software which are in general expensive. At HumDomains, we provide many open source applications that are just suitable for easy making a social networking website.

Few choices at HumDomains for Creating a Social Networking Website

1. Windows Platform

For a personal and non-commercial social networking website that will help you interacting community members of common interest, among your friends and  among your high school or college colleagues, the easiest way is to make a website using personal version of Community Server 2007. It is the platform that powers the web's most popular communities. Blog, Forum and Photo Gallery have already been integrated into it. You can even allow members in the community to download files from your website. Please note that if you want to use it for the commercial purposes, you need to buy the commercial license of it.

2. Linux Platform

Many of the open source software's have been started making an impact on building a social networking website - thanks to the developers and you don't have pay a dime for purchasing a software for developing our own social networking website. Recently, many of the open source applications for content management systems have been increasingly tested and recommended by the open source community for making a social networking website.

At HumDomains we recommend the use of Joomla or Drupal for making a social networking website. With many popular extensions available which could be easily integrated to Joomla/Drupal, you have the liberty to add extra features to your website. For example, Blog, Photo Gallery, Forum, Video streaming, Chat, Podcasting and much more could be smoothly and easily be integrated to your Joomla/Drupal website. Each member just need one login ID to access all that features and you as the administrator have the control over each members on their access levels. The best of all - most of the features that you want to add to your social networking website are freely available at Joomla extensions site or Drupal modules.

Today, Drupal powers many homepages of Warner Brothers Records, The New York Observer, Fast Company, Popular Science, and Amnesty International and project sites by SonyBMG, Forbes, Harvard University, and more. Drupal can be used to create personal weblogs (Tim Berners-Lee), deliver podcasts (TWIT.tv), connect online communities (SpreadFireFox.com), form artist collectives (Terminus 1525) or inform the masses (The Onion).

How to Begin?

You don't have to buy a hosting account to start creating a social networking website. To begin with, get a domain from HumDomains - that's cheap with our promotional prices. Each domain includes many extra stuffs including  10 GB Free ASP/MS-SQL or PHP/MySQL Hosting (small forced ads, non-obstructive, no pop-up - see an example Joomla website). You can try out and learn more about community server 2007 (select free windows hosting plan for this form your control panel) or Joomla or Drupal for Social Networking (select free Linux PHP hosting plan for this form your control panel) with the FREE hosting plan that has been included with every domain. Installing applications are free, easy and fast. Please note that RSS and few of Joomla templates will not work properly with FREE hosting account because of the small forced ads on the top of each pages. This will be resolved when you upgrade to any of the paid hosting plan. The small forced ads could also be easily removed with the paid hosting plan.

All the best for your Social Networking Website.