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2007-06-14 05:05:35 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
There are several options for creating your own website. It is largely dependent on how complex the site you want is.
A simple site (i.e. yourname.geocities.com) is often free and may have tools (online) for creating the content of the site. This is a great option for a personal page or blog, but does not look professional for an e-commerce site. In other words if you are trying to create a business site, this may not be your best option.
If you want to create a site with a fully custom domain (web address) such as yourname.com you will most likely have to pay a fee. The first step is to purchase the domain (such as www.yahoo.com or www.yourname.com). Then you need a host. The host is the computer that your website is saved on. Most people opt for a third-party host (such as webhero.com or godaddy.com) but it is also possible to host a website on your own computer. Choosing a third-party host will take most of the headache out of creating your site - they have the tools and experience to properly host your site.
If you choose a company such as webhero.com to host your site, you have several options:
1. Free hosting - ads will be displayed on your site, but the hosting is free.
2. Basic hosting - no ads, but you get fewer associated email accounts and less storage space. Moderate fee.
3. Premium hosting - no ads, lots of storage space and email account and loads of other specialized tools to help run your site. (A simple site does not need this). Moderately expensive.
Many hosts provide tools to create your website. You simply fill in information online and - viola! a site is born.
You can expect to pay less than $10 for the domain and anywhere from $5 - $100 per month for hosting.
The final (and most expensive) option is for a complex site. This means you need a database connected to your site or custom programming (a site like yahoo.com or amazon.com are good examples of complex sites, but smaller sites can fall into this category as well). If you need a site of this magnitude, your best bet is to hire a web design firm. Expect to pay several thousand dollars. The prices range from about $2,000 and up (a decent e-commerce site can easily run $10,000 and a really complex site may start at $50,000). An example of a web design firm is www.platdesign.com.
This last option provides the most flexibility in terms of layout, design and funcionality. You can have login accounts, sell products or services, show movies and all sorts of other things.
2007-06-14 05:47:50 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's a lot of good sites out there that will allow you to do this but they have their name in the domain name like www.geocities.com/yournamehere. I actually perfer geocities because they actually let you write out the HTML code. If you don't like the code aspect of it, google has a new thing they're doing where you can create a website without a single typed character of code. It's pages.google.com
2007-06-14 05:12:39 · answer #2 · answered by coreyog 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you can make a website by using NVU editor (www.nvu.com), it's free and wont tie you down to one method of editing. NVU pages can be transferrable to frontpage or dreamweaver html editor
SEE http://www.interkeys.com/htmleditor for more info on Premium HTML Editors (WYSIWYG)
For free hosting, try google pages pages.google.com or yahoo geocities ,
its sort of free hosting, but you are limited to a subdomain on googlepages & geo has ads on your website - otherwise I would use http://www.interkeys.com/tophosts to get one for a few bucks a month with 500 GIG bandwidth and the rich with features
its up to you how developed a site you want and if you want to use your own domain name
2007-06-14 07:01:44 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
use one of the free website providers
2007-06-14 05:15:03 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are several free hosting websites out there such as geocities;
https://login.yahoo.com/config/login_verify2?.src=geo&.done=http%3A%2F%2Fgeocities.yahoo.com%2Freg
As far as designing the website they have tools builtin that assist you.
2007-06-14 05:10:16 · answer #5 · answered by alphawhiskey43 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can do it yourself using Notepad.
Just take this code, and modify it as you like.
2007-06-14 05:14:13 · answer #6 · answered by Chris C 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋