Website Builder
Having a website these days is as common as having a car. Most companies have one as do everyday people. Many people use website to showcase pictures of their hobby or family and send the web address to distant relatives. For those people you can find sites that offer a free domain (http://www.name.com) and hosting (space on a server) and even the pages are already built so it’s just a case of uploading images and text, perfect!
Having a website is quite inexpensive if you use free tools to create one. Many domain name and web hosting companies offer sites builders free when you buy a domain and hosting from them. This is great news for the majority of people as building websites can be tricky and not everyone has the skills. Many people use word or publisher but have trouble publishing it to the domain, and when they do finally manage it the pages take for ever to download and some of the links don’t work. Very frustrating! The best way to build a website is by either writing it in HTML or by using professional web building software such as Dreamweaver. But not everyone has these skills and even if you do manage to build a site you might still struggle getting it online.
You could dig deep into your pocket and find a web design company to build a site for you but this can be costly. If you’re a new start up business you might no have the financial resource available, so this is when using a site builder is the best alternative. Most site builders are very easy to use; they have to be as they are targeting people without any programming knowledge. Most site builders come with hundreds of free templates you can find the right look and feel for you website. They also come with a library of images so you can find the right images needed to show case your company.
Some site builders allow you to create professional looking websites within minutes. They have wizards that take you through the whole process, from building your template to actually publishing online. As long as you get the site builder and domain registration and hosting from the same company you shouldn’t have any trouble. If your still worried make sure the company has a valid phone number so if you get stuck there is customer support at the end of a phone.
Once you have your website live you now want to get it viewed. If your type your domain name into Google or any other search engine and it returns the following:
No standard web pages containing all your search terms were found.
Your search – http://www.name.com – did not match any documents.
Suggestions:
Make sure all words are spelled correctly.
Try different keywords.
Try more general keywords
This means your website is not listed in the search engines index, meaning the search engine doesn’t know it exists. For a search engine to list your site it has to know about it. This is where search engine submission comes into play. There are many companies offering to submit your site to the search engines for a fee. Some charge over the top for this and people are getting ripped off all the time. So either find a free search engine submission of submit it yourself.
So how to you submit a site to a search engine? Easy! All you have to do is put a hyperlink to your site on a site that is already indexed. Another way is to write an article (bit of free promotion going on here too) and at the bottom of the article create a link to your site. Publish the article to a few article directories (most are free) and the search engine spiders that crawl websites looking for new pages will soon pick up the hyperlink to your new site, go to your site and index all the pages it can find from there. Voila!
Carolyn Clayton
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I have two web sites with Yahoo, http://www.cnskylines.com and http://www.americafivestar.com. I used to edit my web with yahoo website builder. Last week, my computer was down and I have to rebuild the edit tool. can you tell me where I can download a free yahoo website builder again. many thanks,
Michael Lee
Yes, it’s called SiteBuilder, and there is a new version out. Before you download again, I would Start>All Programs>Yahoo!>SiteBuilder>Update SiteBuilder (in case your program only has a corrupt file). Yahoo will update your program for you. If the program is completely gone, here is the URL:
http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/index.php
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The process of creating a website and getting it online can be a tricky one, especially for the non-technical community. And this surely isn’t helped by the common misconception that domain registration and web hosting is one and the same thing.So let’s clear things up. Domain registration and web hosting are two separate processes, both of which need to be completed in order to create a website and make it live on the internet.Put simply the process is as follows: a domain must be registered by a domain registration company and then that domain name must be hosted on the internet through a web hosting company.And here’s where the confusion comes in. Many companies will offer both domain registration and web hosting, whereas others will only offer either web hosting or domain registration. Therefore you can choose to register your domain and host your website with the same company or register your domain with one company and host your site with another.It really as simple as that, but is something that causes a great deal of confusion and unnecessary stress to many people wanting to set up a website.Domain Registration
To use the Internet to communicate with others or to look up information, you have to type an address into your computer. These addresses are a name or a number and are more commonly known as domain names. Every domain name has to be completely unique so that the internet knows the correct website to bring up for the user.If you wish to create your own website, you need to devise a name you wish your website to be known as. This name then needs to be registered with a domain registration company to ensure that it is unique and that you become the legal owner of that domain name.You also need to pick a domain extension to attribute to your domain name. By this we mean.com,.co.uk,.org,.net etc. You should give careful consideration to the domain extension you choose to ensure that your full domain name best represents that of your business or project. For example if you are a UK business and are only selling to the UK, it would be most effective to choose a.co.uk domain extension – especially for achieving good UK search engine rankings.It is imperative that before registering a domain name with a domain registrar that you check that they are a credible domain registration company. One method of doing this is to check that the domain registrar’s website is featured on the ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) Accredited Registrars listWeb hosting
Once you have registered your unique domain name with an accredited domain registrar, you need to get your website live on the internet. To do this, you need to buy a web hosting package from a hosting company.The process of putting your website on the internet is completed by the web hosting company you sign up with and will involve placing your website on a web server which is then linked to the internet. The type of web server your site is hosted on will depend on the requirements of your website. The most common web hosting plans are Shared Web Hosting and Dedicated Server Web Hosting.Shared Web Hosting
If you have a simple website which requires a regular amount of web space and bandwidth, then it is likely that your hosting company recommend you choose a shared web hosting plan.With this plan your website will be placed on one of the web hosting company’s shared web servers. Here your website will reside alongside a number of other similar sized websites where it will share all the server’s resources and features.Each hosting company differs in the hosting features they offer with their shared hosting plans. With many companies you will receive as standard:?A specified amount of web space depending on your chosen package
?Easy to use web site control panel
?Online account management facility
?Full 24/7 ftp access to upload your web files
?Free domain transfer
?Unlimited domain aliases
?Webmail
?Send and receive emails using Microsoft Outlook or other email programsDedicated Server Web Hosting
If your website has grown to a size which cannot be accommodated on a shared server or if you require the flexibility to add software or other features to your site, then your web hosting company may recommend that you purchase a dedicated server.With a dedicated server, you own the rights to the whole server; thus giving you complete control over what is installed and run on your server. Space and bandwidth usage will also no longer be a problem as there will only be your site (or sites) using the servers resources.With a dedicated server you also have peace of mind that your site(s) won’t be at the mercy of other websites and their potentially corrupt code – which could cause downtime and other problems to your site.When choosing a dedicated server you can opt to have your server managed or unmanaged by the web hosting company. With a managed server, you may receive services such as site administration, certain software installation, maintenance and upgrades. The major plus of having your dedicated server managed is that you have an expert on hand should your server suffer any failure – guaranteeing your site a high uptime percentage. Although significantly cheaper, unmanaged server hosting is only really recommended for those with a high degree of technical knowledge in server administration and management.
It’s an important question. Because if you don’t register within that period you could find yourself paying as much as two hundred dollars to get your domain back. Or, you might not get it back at all. How would you feel about that?Let me explain. Yes, ICANN understands how emotionally traumatic and financially disastrous it can be to lose your domain due to registrar error or your own poor bookkeeping. To paraphrase what was once so famously said, “They feel your pain.” And ICANN has made proposals to alleviate this trauma. Evidence of this can be found at the ICANN website under the heading “Life Cycle Of A Typical gTLD (generic Top Level Domain; i.e., Com, Net, Org, etc.). There you will find this clever illustration made up of several arrows demonstrating the life cycle of one of the above mentioned TLDs.One of the arrows has the title-in large print-Auto-Renew Grace Period. “Great!” you think. But under this title in small print is the kicker (0-45days). In other words that Grace Period is just as long as the entity controlling the domain wants it to be. It can be as long as a month and a half-which strikes me as a bit much-or as short as zip (a bit little). And guess what, Mr. Mrs. and Ms. Registrant, that controlling entity isn’t you.But don’t worry, you should know in advance what the policy of your Registrar is regarding the length of the Auto-Renew Grace Period under his aegis. After all, the RAA (Registration Accreditation Agreement), the controlling agreement between ICANN and the registrars, says that the Registrar should clearly state on its website its auto-renewal policy. I fear the determinative word here is “should.” I’m no lawyer but I don’t think “should” is a synonym for “will.” In my experience that information is usually on the website somewhere-but not exactly front-and-center. So if you’re not sure, ask. Better yet watch your domains closely and don’t let them expire. Now let me ask you again, “How long is your Auto-Renewal Grace Period?”