subject: Setting Up a Website is Easy and Cheap! [print this page] Setting Up a Website is Easy and Cheap! Setting Up a Website is Easy and Cheap!
What is a website?
The following is a very basic description of what a website is: - A website can act as a brochure or sales letter but in electronic form, viewable only in your computer. A website can also act as your physical business premises. Your website displays your products in the form of photos or illustrations and words that describe what it is. People can browse your website for the products you carry from any PC with an Internet Browser without having to go there in person to see them.
What is a domain name?
Basically, your domain name is the internet address of your website, it looks something like this:
www.yourname.com
Once the domain name has been selected and registered, no one else can register the same domain name just as there can never be two houses with the same address. Your domain name can also be your Internet Business name.
Pretty Basic Stuff so far right? Next thing is what you need to consider - web hosting.
What is web hosting?
The host of your website is the server. Your website sits on the hard disk of a big computer called a server that is connected to the Internet 24 hours a day. The server can also host other websites simultaneously.
These are some of the basic things that you need to have your own website, apart from a whole range of other things that I can mention. Wait a minute, I thought the title said SETUP YOUR OWN WEBSITE CHEAPLY? It seems that there are quite a few things that you need to worry about. Relax, I'm getting to the CHEAP part soon.
SO let's recap:
1- You want to set up your own website
2- You have selected your own domain name
3- You want to get a company to host your website
There are many companies out there that offer web hosting services to consumers or webmasters. However, look closely at what the packages consist of. Sometimes a particular package has many more features that an average webmaster needs.
The good thing about this is that you can choose a hosting company from practically anywhere. Whether you needwebhosting in Malaysia,webhosting in Singapore or evenwebhosting in the US, there is always a suitable package that you can find to suit your needs.
After you are set up, the above web hosting companies all offer built in software to quickly get you started. You can easily install blogging systems like Wordpress or have Mambo installed to help you build your website. There are also plenty of other free features included in the above packages. You can't go wrong with any of them.
Last but not least, get your content ready and start building your site. Have fun doing it and best of all, start earning from it. :)
