How can I set up my own website for business use?

Answer 1

Begin with setting up your own "business" webpage as your current internet provider will provide free hosting as discussed below.

If you are currently a paid Internet subscriber, you are entitled to a "homepage" which often contains simple navigation and editing tools. And if you use the Netscape browser, the built-in Composer feature is a superior HTML authoring tool which is totally free. You can easily generate a full-blown website as a Homepage.

Nevertheless, the "homepage" URL is likely to be "http://homepage.earthlink.com/subscribe... name" and that URL can easily be overwritten via a redirection service, i.e., "mydomain.com" which allows you to link any registered domain name to "mask" another website. For example, should you type in the "domain name," you will be immediately transported to the homepage and the hompage URL of http://homepage.earthlink.com/subscriber... a homepage URL which will be masked by the domain name. And the charge for the redirection service [even at godaddy.com] is normally FREE.

When you acquire a domain name, connect it using a redirection service [as discussed above] and submit/publish the domain name on major search engines/directories in order for Net surfers to find your website.

Good luck!

Answer 2

There are a lot of ways to do this.

If you are going about it on your own:

One cool new innovation is squarespace.com...it gives you cms capabilities with a ton of design options.

A more tech idea is to get a pre packaged open source cms like mambo

Or if you only need a small site, you can simply get a static html template somewhere on the web

If you are looking for better marketing from your site:

The only real option is to get the site done professionally so that it is done in a manner that is SEO friendly. Some of these other options may offer the idea of being SEO friendly out of the box, but the algo for search is constantly changing, and issues that might not be important to day or everything tomorrow.

Answer 3

i agree with Don M. But Yahoo also has an online store module as well that appears to be easy to use.... although, if you have access to dreamweaver, or some other HTML program, and some photoshop, there are tons of free templates to download and customize the site even more than with Yahoo.

Answer 4

Fast, quick and easy, with everything you need.
Domain Name.
Web Hosting
Software to design and Maintain your site.
http://geocities.yahoo.com/home/
Don