Building a website

Free tutorial for beginners on how to choose a domain name and hosting for your website.

First of all: if you want to have your own website you have to know that you have to buy a domain name and hosting.

You can buy a domain name and hosting for example: from www.GoDaddy.com or from any hosting company in your area.

Second, you can develop your website locally on your computer, so you can build your website and then buy a domain name and hosting.

Note: I don't recommend using free hosting for your official website. If you want, you can use free hosting just for testing propose.


Before we start making the website lets talk about choosing a name (domain name) for your website.

Choosing a domain name for your own website before you start is better if you already have a logo. You can make or choose a template for your website based on the color of your logo.

When choosing a domain name for your website is better to choose one that is relevant to your activity and not your company's name.

For example your company name is ABCD and you make, for example, candles. Is better for you to have a domain name called www.candles.com then www.abcd.com.

Why not to choose for domain name your company's name when creating your own website?

Let's say you are a customer, wouldn't you search for candles, in our case, or for abcd, the company's name?

Don't get me wrong, if you are a company like Microsoft, Coca-Cola or some other giant in your domain, your website domain name could be the company's name and people will still find you.

Okay if your website domain name is more than one word I recommend you use dashes, because is better for website optimization and can be remembered easier. Here is an example: www.wedding-candles.com.

Now that we determined how you can choose a name for your website, let's view some techniques for creating a website.

     First, you can create a website like I describe in the articles: creating a html website or creating a css website.

     Second, you can download a free template or buy one and build your website based on that template.

Here I will show you how to create a website based on a free template.

Here is a list of website where you can download templates for your website:

     http://www.freecsstemplates.org/ - Free CSS Templates

     http://www.free-css-templates.com/ - Free CSS Templates

     http://www.free-css.com - CSS Resources

     http://www.freewebsitetemplates.com/ Website Templates.

     http://www.freewebtemplates.com/

Before we download a template and start building the website, we are going to talk about choosing the right image types for your website.