How to make a website for beginners

The whole process of how to make a website seems a simple for me but looking at it from another perspective I can see how it must be quite confusing to those who have never done it before and who don't have the 10 years of website building experience like me.

So here I will present you with a beginners overview on the process of making a website with your own domain name. (as opposed to using blogs or free webspace)

Domain:

You need to purchase the domain name of your choice. Make sure you purchase it from a reputable company such as 'enom' or 'GoDaddy'. Make sure that you are allowed to configure the NAMESERVERS yourself at any time.

Hosting:

You need to rent out space on a websever where you will keep your web pages and images. Unless you are planning on a mega site with thousands of webpages,or a site with a lot of video or audio content then you should be ok with contracting a fairly basic package. This should cost around $10 per week and would typically include around 100Gb of disk space and 1000Gb of monthly bandwidth with capacity to configure multiple email accounts.

Two reputable web hosting companies you might want to consider are iPowerWeb.com and IX Web Hosting

Putting it all together:

Once you have a domain name and a webhost then you need to go into the configuration panel for your domain name and enter your hosting company's nameserver details that you whould ave been provided with upon signing up. The nameserver tells any browser that tries to access your pages exactly where to look for them and on which web server. Once this is completed then in a period of less than 24 hours you should begin to able to access your webpages by simply typing in your domain in any browser.

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