subject: Steps to Follow when Creating your Website [print this page] Steps to Follow when Creating your Website
With the advent of World Wide Web, setting up a website to aid your business venture has become imperative to its success. This can also be seen as a rising demand for online services. Launching one's website has become an indispensable idea for a businessman and understanding all the little things that go into setting one up is more important than you may imagine it to be.
Putting up a website is composed of a couple of very easy steps though owning a big site like Yahoo or MSN is a whole lot of different ball game altogether. To set up your website you do not need to be a software engineer or IT personnel. Having said that, a basic knowledge of knowing your way around your desktop is somewhat indispensable.
The first step is to decide on the type of website you wish to launch. This is an extremely important step and it forms the basic infrastructure within the entire website will take its shape. A website can be a family website, information website or an e commerce website. An e commerce website's main idea is to create profits but if you want to establish a website strictly for revenue then you should know exactly know what you plan to do with the website. It is important to be specific in your services, which you plan to provide to your prospective customers, instead of being generic, because many mega websites like Yahoo already cover these effectively and do not leave any traffic to sway your direction.
Next step is to create and subsequently register a domain name. Domain names can be an easy job too. It has to be short, innovative, memorable and very much in correspondence with the services that are provided over the website. The internet is abuzz with the domain register services of Go Daddy complete with several other web development services that they provide, but the internet is replete with many competent domain name registering web portals so you can take your pick. However, one should keep the costs in mind. Registering your domain name should not be a very costly affair. Also remember to choose the privacy option while registering your name to keep it free of spams and avoid illegal usage of your email address or other information.
Thirdly, you would need to create a website, specifically speaking, design it. Designing a website again does not entail possession of some computing prowess. You can simply visit the many web portals that provide pre designed web templates. One can easily get to choose a single page website spread. However, if you are looking for a several page spread complete with innovative designing, it is best to avail the services of a web designer, who use sophisticated software such as Dreamweaver and Coffee Cup. You will find to your aid that many websites make website building, content editing etc as easy as using Microsoft word. You can avail their services (such as Website Tonight) and make some very easy work out creating your website.
You second last step is to find cheap web hosting service provider. You get to choose between Windows and Linux Hosting. A web host provides you the required hardware server that launches your website on the World Wide Web and store the website files onto its system. What you should be looking for is a dedicated server provider that will not back your web portal spasmodically by shutting down more frequently than is good for the site's reputation and sales. The point with web hosting is that it doesn't answer to any geographical boundaries and you can avail a USA dedicated server sitting in China, though with the present cost of these market services, it will most probably be the other way round. Note that you are not hoodwinked by websites heralding "Dallas dedicated server" or "Cheapest Hosting services in the Market", instead subscribe to them only on the basis of sufficient bandwidth, disk space, acceptable uptime (99.9% is now standard), and customer support. They should also feature an acceptable backup policy.
Lastly, to make your website a success you will almost most certainly need SEO and SEM services to upgrade the Alexa ranking for your website.
Some easy to follow steps, common diligence and you're ready to launch your own website into the internet.
