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Making web site How do Iget it on the net?

2007-02-13 12:22:37 · 3 answers · asked by Jim 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet

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If you want to get all serious about it, then two things are needed: a domain name to refer to where the files are stored (like www.somename.com or www.somename.net) and a hosting space to hold the files that are stored in the space referred to by the domain name. If you wanted to get that serious about it and say, spend money, Yahoo! would be glad to take $12 or so of your money every month to give you both. There are other deals elsewhere. See www.webhostingtalk.com for discussions

2007-02-13 12:29:42 · answer #1 · answered by fjpoblam 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋

It totally depends on your needs.

Is this a commercially viable site or are you mostly just playing around?

If you want to make money (either by providing a service or with banners) you will probably need to pay for a host. If you want to use a server side language like PHP or ASP you will probably need to pay, although there are some free hosts. If you want a database... same thing.

How much traffic will you have?
How much storage space?

You can always host it on your own computer if you don't want to pay anything. That brings up it's own set of issues though.

For a nice free webhost I like http://www.web1000.com/

I haven't used them in a few years but they always seemed to have a good level of service and capabilities.

2007-02-13 20:30:46 · answer #2 · answered by hatevirtual 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋

There are three basic steps to getting a web site on the net.

1. First, you must make a web site.

For the sake of simplicity, I will show you how to make the world's most basic web site.

Open a text editor (notepad on Windows, for instance) and type the following:

This is my first webpage

This is my first webpage

Welcome to my first webpage, I hope you like it.

I won't explain what this all means; there are plenty of HTML reference guides and tutorials on the web to assit you. For this exercise, simply put that text into notepad (or whatever text editor you're using) and save it as "index.html".

Congratulations, you have a web page! Open your web browser, select "File...Open" from the menu, and use the file dialog to open the file "index.html" from your desktop. You'll see your very simple web page appear in the browser. Tah dah!

Unfortunately, that page can only be seen by you on your computer. So, on to the next step.

2. Next, you must find a place to host your web site.

Web hosting can be a complicated business, but it breaks down to this: a web host is a computer just like yours, that is connected to the internet in such a way that anyone in the world with internet access can view the web pages on it.

If you have an ISP (internet service provider, aka the company that provides your internet access) odds are you have a small amount of space "reserved" on their web servers to host a small number of web pages. Contact your ISP to find out how to move your file from your own machine's desktop into your ISP's web server directory.

3. Now, browse to your page using the URL your ISP provides.

When you got instructions from your ISP for moving your web page to their servers, they should have given you the URL for hitting that page. It will be something similar to, but not exactly like, this:

http://members.yourisp.com/~yourmembername

Put the URL they provide into your browser's address bar, hit [enter], and voila! There's your web page. Give that URL to anyone else, and they can do the same.

If you want a dedicated URL, like www.thisismypage.com, or you want to link to other pages, or make your web page(s) look attractive or do cool things, that's beyond the scope of this answer; look to the web for tutorials.

2007-02-13 20:33:52 · answer #3 · answered by big_bowl_of_meat 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋