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[H902]How To Build Your Own Website

by Bill Kernodle, Bil

I think the first thing to realize is that you must be patient, willing to learn and careful with your money. If you have a lot of money you can dis-regard this advice but I don't think you would be reading this at all if you did, you would just pay someone to spend your money for you. If all you want to do is to have a small site with photos and stuff for friends you might start with yahoo or youtube or even ebay if you are only interested in selling a few items form your home. Many, many places have websites ready made, or "templates" they are called where you can just input your information and away you go. You pay a nominal fee monthly for the right to use their site, (hosting it is called) but it is very simple and easy to do and a good way to start. It is not the most economical but at this point you may want to go that route.

If you are a bit more interested in doing things yourself, have a bit of technical ability and are willing to learn, the best way in the long run is to buy a software application to build your own sites form your own computer. You do it all in the comfort of your computer chair and then "upload" the information to a "server" and you are on the web! Now it costs $200-$500 or so for something decent, but the cost is going down all the time and there are even free versions available also. Macromedia Dreamweaver, Microsoft Forntpage. NVU and XsitePro are all designed to help you in this regard. These are solely created to help individuals in designing professional websites.

If you are really ambitious and technically unafraid you can learn about "HTML" or the language computers use to function and you can build your own sites with letters and numbers as things were down before the advent of user-friendly computer software designed for the purpose of web building.

No matter which way you decide to go, take your time, be patient and persistent and you will be making your own websites in no time!

FIRST METHOD:

Get a professional designer to build the site for you:

It is expensive in creation process, site maintenance and development.

SECOND METHOD:

Designing the site with free website hosting:

In this case, just sign in the website that offers this service, and start building your own website.

Free Hosting Sites:

• http://geocities.yahoo.com
• http://www.angelfire.lycos.com
• http://www.tripod.lycos.com
• http://www.freeservers.com

Disadvantages of this method (Free Web Hosting):

• Small size-Limited web page space
• Can't create interactive features (message boards, online ordering, etc.)
• Advertisements-May have banners and/or pop ads on your homepage
• Long and hard to remember web address (instead of http://yourdomain.com)
• No branded email addresses (you@yourdomain.com)
• Weak technical support-Poor help and support options
• May not be free forever
• No seriousness to the site

So it is better to choose a cheap Hosting sites with reasonable prices, you will get a better quality and a higher credibility.

THIRD METHOD:

Professional Web Hosting:

Design the site by a web page designer program (computer software) and use one of the hosting sites.

Web Page designer programs:
There is a lot of computer software available to help you build and manage your website, you may use one or more of them:

1. Microsoft FrontPage
2. Macromedia Dreamweaver/Fireworks Studio
3. Adobe GoLive/Adobe ImageStyler
4. Flash & Swish

FrontPage program is the famous and most important one.

Sites to learn Front Page:

• http://www.fgcu.edu/support/office2000/frontpage/
• http://www.bhsu.edu/university_comm/web_services/FP_tutorials.html
• http://www.electricteacher.com/tutorial2.htm
Sites for Domain Name:

• Yahoo - http://www.yahoo.com
• Godaddy - http://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/default.asp
• EV1Servers - http://ev1servers.net
• Stargate - http://stargate.com
• Actnowdomains - http://actnowdomains.com

Sites For Web Hosting:

• Yahoo - http://www.yahoo.com
• Powweb - http://powweb.com
• Ev1servers - http://ev1servers.net
• Stargate - http://stargate.com
• UCVHost - http://ucvhost.com
• Servermatrix - http://servermatrix.com
• Infinology- http://infinology.com

Because this method needs to learn a new program with the knowledge of HTML, so it is not our recommended method.

FOUTRH METHOD: (recommended method)

Build the site with SiteBuilder and choose the Hosting package:

This method is the easiest and fastest way to create a website without any previous knowledge of web site building and without any HTML experience.
You can start right now and build your website immediately.

If you can point and click with a mouse, then you can build your own website right now!

Web Hosting with Site Builder:

Yahoo! SiteBuilder - http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/index.php

The Yahoo! SiteBuilder (as an example) opens with a Welcome Screen that provides links to built-in tutorials titled “Getting Started with Yahoo! SiteBuilder”

The Getting Started Tutorial covers subjects like:

• How to Start a New Page
• How to Add Text
• How to create tables
• How to Place Images
• How to add links
• How to use templates
• How to publish and upload web pages
• and much more!

More Site Builders:

• Actnowdomains- http://www.actnowdomains.com
• Site Build It - http://buildit.sitesell.com/main/home.html
• EasyHost - http://www.easyhost.com
• Fasthosts -http://www.fasthosts.co.uk/
• Interland - http://www.interland.com
• BlueVoda - http://www.bluevoda.com
• SiteRightNow - http://www.SiteRightNow.com
• ipowerweb - http://www.ipowerweb.com
• CoffeeCup- http://www.coffeecup.com/bigcup

Enjoy!

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