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How to Start / Create Your Own Website: The Beginner's A-Z Guide
The Essential Step-by-Step Guide to
Starting Your Own Website
Get Your Domain Name
The first thing you need to do before anything else is to get
yourself a domain name. A
domain name is the name you want to
give to your website. For example, the
domain name of the website you're reading is "
http://easywebsite-editor.com ". To get a
domain name, you have to
pay an annual fee to a registrar for the right to use that name.
Getting a name does not get you a website or anything like that.
It's just a name. It's sort of like registering a business name in
the brick-and-mortar world; having that business name does not mean
that you also have the shop premises to go with the name.
Detailed information on
getting a
good domain name can be found in the article
Tips on
Choosing a Good Domain Name.
After you read that, you will need to know the steps to
registering a domain name and the
things you need to look out for when registering. You can find a
detailed guide in the article How to Register Your Own Domain Name.
Choose a Web Host and Sign
Up for an Account
A web host is basically a company that has many computers connected
to the Internet. When you place your web pages on their computers,
everyone in the world will be able to connect to it and view them.
You will need to sign up for an account with a web host so that your
website has a home. If getting a domain name is analogous to getting
a business name in the brick-and-mortar world, getting a web hosting
account is analogous to renting office premises for your business.
There are many issues involved in finding a good web host. Read up
on the various things you need to look for in searching for a good
web host in the article How to Choose a Web Host.
After you have an idea of what to look for, you can search for one
from the Budget Web Hosting page. You can also find out which web
host I'm currently using from the Which Web Host Do You Recommend?
page.
Designing your Web Pages
Once you have your domain name and web host, your next step will be
to design web site
itself. In this article, I will assume that you will be doing this
yourself. If you are using a third party
web designer to do it
for you, you can probably skip this step.
Although there are many considerations in
web design, as a
beginner, your first step is to actually get something out onto the
web. The fine-tuning can come after you've figured out how to get a
basic web page onto your site. One way is to use a
WYSIWYG web editor to
do it. There are many commercial and free
web editors around. If
you don't mind spending money on a
commercial web editor,
one of the most highly-regarded WYSIWYG web editors is Dreamweaver.
If you prefer to use free
web editor software, you can find a complete tutorial on using
Nvu, a free
WYSIWYG web editor, in the article
How to Design and Publish
Your Website with Nvu. The tutorial takes you through the steps
to creating a website that has a home page, an about page, a site
map, a links page and a feedback form. It also teaches you some of
the basic features of the Nvu software so that you can go on
improving and
updating your website on your own.
There are many other web
design software around. If you prefer not to use either of the
above, you can find some others listed on Free HTML Editors and
WYSIWYG Web Editors page.
After you have followed my tutorial, and are on the way to
designing your website, you might want to read the article
Appearance, Usability and
Search Engine Visibility in Web Design as well. The article
takes a brief look at some of the real world issues that every
web designer must deal
with.
An integral part of web
design is search engine readiness. Search engine promotion does
not start after the web site is made. It starts at the
web design stage. The article 6 Tips on How to Create a Search
Engine Friendly Website is a must-read. My article on How to Improve
Your Search
Engine Ranking on Google is also important for the simple reason
that, at the time this article was written, Google is the most
important search engine around.
There are many other issues
regarding the design of web pages. The above will get you
started. However, if you have the time after you get something out
onto the web, you may want to read my other articles on
Web Design and Website
Promotion and Search
Engine Ranking.
Testing Your Website
Although I list this step separately, this should be done throughout
your web design cycle. I list it separately to give it a little more
prominence, since too few new webmasters actually perform this step
adequately.
You will need to
test your web pages as you design them in the major browsers:
Internet Explorer 7, Internet Explorer 6, the latest versions of
Firefox ( Get Firefox with Google Toolbar ) Opera and Safari. Since
all these browsers are free anyway, it should not be any hardship to
get them and install them. The trick however, is testing with two
versions of Internet Explorer since the later version will overwrite
the earlier. For that, please see the article How to Check Your
Website with Multiple Browsers on a Single Machine (Cross-Browser
Compatibility Checking). Although there are two possible ways given
in the article, I suggest that you take use the emulator/virtual
machine method to do this. (It's probably easier.) Read the article
to find out more.
One way to improve your chances that your website will work in
future versions of the web browsers is to make sure your web pages'
code validate as correct. You can read more about this in HTML and
CSS Validation: Should You Validate Your Web Page? There are
numerous free web page validators listed on the Free HTML Validators,
Broken Link Checkers, Browser Compatibility Checkers page.
Collecting Credit Card Information, Making Money
If you are selling products or services, you will need some way to
collect credit card information. You should read up on
How
to Accept Credit Cards on Your Website.
If you need advertisers for your website, you might want to read
How to Make Money From Your Website and the follow-up article
How
to Increase Your Website Revenue from Affiliate Programs. A list
of advertisers and affiliate programs can be found on Affiliate
Programs: Free Sponsors and Advertisers. These companies are on the
constant lookout for new web publishers to display their
advertisements.
Getting Your Site Noticed
When your site is ready, you will need to submit your site to the
search engines, particularly Google. You can find the Google
submission page by clicking on the "About Google" link on Google,
and then locating the "Submit your content to Google" link on the
page that appears. However, submitting your site to Google alone is,
quite frankly, a pointless endeavour. If there are no other links to
your site on the web, Google will be appear most reluctant to index
your site and show results that include your pages. If there are
many other links to your site, you don't even have to bother to
submit it to Google - it will find your site by itself.
This is where promoting your website is important. This involves
many things, including the usual way people did things before the
Internet: advertisements in the newspapers, word-of-mouth, etc. You
might want to consider advertising on Google itself using Google
Adwords. ( Bring targeted traffic to your site with Google AdWords )
As discussed in my article More Tips on Google Search Engine Results
Placement, this is one of the quickest way to get onto the first
page of Google's search engine results page.
There are also Less Obvious Ways of Promoting Your Website, which
you might want to consider.
Conclusion
Naturally the above guide is not exhaustive. It is a distillation of
some of the basic steps to getting started with your site. If you
want more information, you should read the other articles on
http://websites-design.com.au. However, the above tutorial should
get you started in putting your website onto the Internet.
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