Getting started with setting up a website

You can either have a free website hosted by sites such as http://www.blogger.com/ or you can pay a subscription fee for hosting and a domain name (website name chosen by you) from a hosting company. Chosing to host your website with a hosting company has many advantages over using free hosting becasuse you will usually get support from the hosting company and will be able to use PHP, MySQL and other languages that make your website more interesting and interactive. However, if you are looking to make a website quickly and do not want to do things like allow users to sign up and login etc blogger is probably the site to use.


If you want to pay for hosting

If you just want to advertise your services and allow lots of people to contact you through your webiste etc you will probably need a basic website and not alot of space.You can either have a basic (free website) from hositing such as Geocities which give you a basic website. But with this type of hosting you cannot choose your website name. Or you can pay for hosting from streamline.net, fasthosts etc (There are lots of them)

Once you have a website you will then need to think about how to advertise your website, and how you will get people to visit your website and hopefully use your services. But to get a website follow these steps:First you need to get some hosting, for example fasthost, streamline.net, geocities all provide hosting for websites.

If you sign up with one of these you will prob pay a subscription fee. (geocities also provide free webspace) When you sign up for hosting you will prob also get to choose your website name (domain name) for example http://www.yourwebsitename.co.uk%20then/ you need an FTP program (for example smart ftp) which is what you use to get your website files (pages) onto your webspace.

You should also learn how to create webpages, you will probably use HTML, PHP, ASP, SQL etc (you can also find template web pages which you can change there are lots of them). The steps you need to follow are as follows:

1) Find good hosting, (cheap, lets you do what you want on your website)
2) Sign up, choose your website name
3) get an FTP program
4) Make webpages
5) Upload them using FTP program
6) Check your website and the files you created should be there.