How to Start Your Own Web Site

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How to Start Your Own Web Site

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Three Easy Steps

 

It does not matter what order these steps are performed

 

Step 1

Assuming you are already connected to the internet and are familiar with browsing, email and word processing

You will need to find a place to host your web site

There are many hosting services on the internet

Some people even host their own web site on a computer at home (a server) but this is fairly costly and requires considerable knowledge and effort to maintain the service

As your site grows, it may be more cost effective to host your own web site but the service needs to be reliable if you don't want you website to experience considerable down time

This web site is managed in Australia but hosted by XO Communications which is based in the USA.  It costs US$20 per month for 250 megabytes of space for your files and up to 15 gigabytes of traffic per month and 40 email addresses.  It has a good help desk and provides lots of useful tools for your web page including traffic analysis and reporting.  It is very reliable.

Cheaper plans are available

If you would like to use the XO service then click on the links below

Otherwise, search the net for other web site hosting services

You may find cheaper services but they may not be as reliable and may not provide as much help with setting up or adding features to your web page

 

 

Step 2

Once you have a place to host your web page, you need to choose a name or address for your website

eg http://www.truthinlove.com

The name you want may already be taken by somebody else

If this is the case, you will need to experiment with different variations of the name until you find a name that is available

Click on the link below if you are ready to buy a name or if you want to see what names are available

When you buy the domain name (address), you will need to provide the information to link to the server that hosts your web site so that when people type in your web site address it will take them to your web page

When you sign up with a hosting service, they will give you the information required

 

 

Step 3

The last step is to purchase web site authoring and publishing software and learn how to use it

If you know how to use a word processor or publishing program it will be very easy

a web site is just a bunch of letters or articles (pages) that you would make with a program like a word processor

the principle difference is that web pages are linked together

once you know how to create links, you will find it easy to create basic web pages

you will then be able to add to your skills and add more complex features to your web site such as data bases, forms etc

A good web page authoring and publishing program is 'Microsoft Front Page'

Once you have created a few pages and linked them together, you publish them by clicking file|publish and typing in the name (address) of your site and the password that you have created in the previous steps, when prompted

 

 

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