STEP 1
Getting Your Own Domain Name (www.yourname.com)
The advantage of having your own website and using your own domain name is that it is
easier for your current and prospective clients to find you on the Internet. Also, the
company that will host your site is independent of your dial-in access (ISP) service and
if you should decide to change ISPs, you will not have to change your website address. To
get your own website/internet address (domain name), i.e. "www.yourbusinessname.com"
(1) see if your name is available because they are going
fast; Click Here to Check Your Name.
(2) If your name is available, register it before
someone else does even if you are not ready to create a website.
STEP 2
Signing Up for Web Hosting Services
Web Hosting is the storage of web pages on the server of a company that displays
web pages on the Internet for you. When you sign up with a company, you
may be billed monthly, quarterly, semi-annually or annually. The services of your web hosting company may
include: a large amount of space for storage of a number of web pages, the
ability to maintain your own site by uploading (copying) your pages to their server using
FTP (file transfer protocol) software or software included with your HTML
program, forms for your clients to complete, online traffic log report, email account, search engine registration, and more...
Click Here for our Web Hosting Services
STEP 3
Designing Your Website
Decide if you will be designing your own website yourself or hire a web designer to do
it for you. If you decide to do it yourself, be prepared to learn the HTML language (this
is the language used to create web pages; or purchase a software program that uses
templates and is easy to learn. For example Microsoft Frontpage or Hotdog
Express are programs that you can use to design a web page without knowing
how to do HTML coding. . Click Here to Get Information on our Web Design
Services
STEP 4
Advertising Your Web Site
Once your web site has been created and is on the Internet, you will need to let people
know about it. It can be registered with search engine companies, like Yahoo, WebCrawler,
Lycos, Infoseek, etc. Click Here for Search Engine
Tools
Also, place your website address on business cards, brochures, flyers and letterhead,
billing statements, phone messages, promotional items, television commercials, etc.
Other advertising methods include banner ads; link exchanges with other
sites, newspaper announcements and newsgroups.
Information Provided by
Web Business Mall
(Low Cost Web Site Services)
http://www.webbusiness.com
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Contact Information:
CTIS/Web Business Mall
Email: webmaster@webbusiness.com
Office: 1(800)483-0094; Pin No. 4875735
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R. Davis
Last Modified 8/26/01
