1. Design your Website



You will firstly need to design the website for this I would

recommend hiring a Web Designer. Before contacting a web

designers you should always check the portfolio and there

skills. If you just want to advertise your business then you

need to look for a web designer who knows how to use graphical

programs such as Macromedia dreamweaver, flash, fireworks and

Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Imageready, Indesign as well as

knowledge of HTML, DHTML, CSS and Javascript. However if you

want to sell items online or have some technical calculations

etc then you should get a web designer with knowledge of online

Databases, PHP, MYSQL, perl, .net , HTML, Javascript and CSS

2. Search for a Domain Name

The Domain name is an important part of your website as this

is this web address of your actual website. You need to look

for your business name in a domain name but don't sign up to

the domain name until you find a suitable hosting company in

stage 3

3. Sign Up to a web hosting and domain company

You will now have to sign up to a hosting company which will

also register your domain name. Look around and find the

cheapest you can find and make sure you check the disk space

can fit against your very own website as if your website is

over 50 Megabytes (MB) and the hosting company has a hosting

package that offers you 25MB disk space then you won't be able

to put your website within this hosting package as the disk

space is to small. You should also check to see if they can

give you a free domain name with this service as well as see

whether you get a discount if you pay a year in advance.

4. Upload your website

Now that you have the hosting package you will need to upload

the web pages to your website using a file transfer program

this you can download for free or web hosting company may

offer this to you. They will give you username and passwords

wither by email or by post which you need to enter before you

transfer the files online and it may take about 24 hours before

your website is active so you may have to wait for a little

while before you can upload your website to the internet.

5. Advertise Your website

The final step in having a website is advertising your website.

This is a very important stage in creating a website as without

it you will literally be invisible on the web. You will need to

submit your website to search engines and make sure you have

appropiate meta tag keywords on your website and within your

content as this will attract the search engine to your website.

You can exchange your web links with other web sites this is

called web exchange and you can buy advertising space with on

selected websites.

As you can see you have a lot to think about when putting your

website together however if you follow the steps that I have

included in this article you should find that having a website

is benefical to you and your business.

Article written by steven saunders.