How to make a website - Free tutorial for begginers

How do I choose a web hosting?

2010-08-02T14:29:00.001-07:00

Choosing a good web host straight from the beginning is very important for the success of a blog. The web host plays a major role on the overall user experience on your site. Secondly, should your hosting provider turn out to be inefficient you might have some trouble to move your blog down the road. Below you will find 5 steps to guide your web hosting choice:

1. Reliability is the main requisite: when choosing a web host many people base their decision on the offered disk space and bandwidth. Unless you already have a very popular blog you will hardly use even 10% the bandwidth on most hosting plans. The main factor on your decision, therefore, should be the reliability of the host (i.e. the speed of the servers and the uptime).

2. Research online: in order to verify the reliability of the different web hosts you will need to research online. Use search engines to gather customer reviews and check the online forums dedicated to web hosting.

3. Stay away from oversellers: it is very tempting to sign up with a web host that offers many Gigabytes of disk space, Terabytes of monthly bandwidth and unlimited domains. Specially if they charge $3,95 monthly for those specifications The only problem is that those hosting providers are clearly overselling, and thus they are not able to guarantee service quality. When choosing a web host look for a company that offers reasonable specifications.

4. Test the support service: before signing up make sure that you send some emails to the sales support. Check how fast they answer, how friendly they are and what degree of technical knowledge the operators have. If a company has a poor customer care department to begin with its very likely that other parts of the business will have the same performance.

5. Don’t be cheap: if you are serious about your website or blog you should invest some money into a good web hosting solution. I am not saying that you will need a dedicated server right from the start, but consider that if you want a reliable and fast provider you will need to spend around $10 monthly.

I personally recommend you to use services from Hostmonster.com

How do I get a domain name?

2010-08-02T14:28:00.000-07:00

Well.. I'll give you some help at this question :)
Firstly, you have to know this essential and important tips:
1. Your website must have a short name!
The maximum allowed size is 63 characters, but keep the name as short a possible. That's easier to type and remember.

2. Make sure that your domain name can be easily memorable!
Names with special characters like hyphens and underbars are harder to describe to customers over the phone. Visitors aren't as used to them either and you may inadvertently send customers to your competitors if they have similar names without special characters!
3. And when you choose it, you'll need it to be very descriptive!
Use your company name or a description of your product instead of company initials. People would instantly know what a site called "NeverPayIncomeTaxAgain" is about (although they might be suspicious). The full title is much more descriptive than the acronym "NPITA."

Secondly, you will need to buy this domain name. You can google for "buy domain name" and you will surely find a website from where you can buy.

How to make a website?

2010-08-02T13:58:00.000-07:00

Want to learn everything about making a website? Congrats!

Perhaps you are looking to build:

A simple one or two page personal or business website.
A content management site or blog using a blog platform (like WordPress).
An online ecommerce/Shop website.

Once you know how, making a website isn't difficult! -But where do you start?

Do you want to create a website or a blog?
Use WordPress or an HTML/CSS template?
How do you get a domain name for the website?
Is it expensive?

The aim of this site is to answer these questions, and thousands of other questions you may have about website building, design, promotion, technologies, etc. using easy to understand, step by step courses, articles, tutorials and videos designed especially for beginners.

We will discuss the other problems in my next article.
Stay tuned!