Build a website Saturday, April 11, 2009

To set up a website, there are three steps you will need to take:

Get Your Domain Name:
A domain name is a name you want to call your website. For example, "yahoo.com", "youtube.com" and "wikipedia.org" are all domain names. To obtain a domain name, you have to pay an annual fee to a registrar for the right to use that name. Take into consideration that you cannot buy a domain for life. You get it for a period of one to ten years.
If you fail to renew the domain name at the end of its term, the registration of the domain will be revoked and the domain name may be acquired by another party.

Choose a Web Host and Sign Up For an Account:
A web hosting service provides you with online space. This enables you to get your web pages online at your registered domain name.

Design Your Web Pages and Get Them Online:
There are three ways to create and get your website online:

* Some web hosts offer Easy-To-Use Site Builder that helps you build your web pages without difficulty, even if you are not skilled in using any website creating software. Their web builder is a WYSIWYG program (What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get). This means that the finished page will display exactly the way it was designed.

* You can create the pages offline with your favorite program (DreamWeaver, FrontPage, etc), and then upload them to your web host. This is another easy way to get your website online.

* Frontpage Extensions allow you to publish your site directly from the FrontPage application. This means that you will not have to upload files through FTP, or another method. Microsoft FrontPage is a popular WYSIWYG HTML editor and web site administration tool from Microsoft.

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