How to Start a Website and Host It

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You want to design a website and host it? Hosting your site complicates things, but it gives you far more control and a lot more flexibility. You’ll also be able to get your own domain name, rather than mysite.somefreeserver.com.

As far as building sites go, I’ll make four suggestions, briefly detailed below. All will require some effort and practice.

  1. Set up a wordpress blog on your own host. Get a host that supports cpanel and fantastico. You get a quick and easy install of Wordpress that way, then you tweak the blog and start adding content.
  2. Get a program like XsitePro. It makes layout clean and easy, you don’t have to know code, and it’s trivial to make a nice looking site. It comes with a very easy to follow tutorial.
  3. Get an Online site builder program like Site Rubix. The builder may be even easier than XsitePro, it’s online, comes with hosting and a pile of other goodies.
  4. Build it from scratch. Buy a copy of a full blown site building program, such as Dreamwever, learn HTML and CSS (which isn’t trivial,) pick up some good books on website design (there’s a Dummy’s book that covers it) and you’ll eventually be able to build a killer site.

I’m lazy and I find the first three to be much easier. Here’s a page which goes into the subject more deeply: how to start a website and host it

* Filed under: Internet, Web Design, Web Hosting, Web Sites

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