As a a blogger, You wish to have have your own .com website..
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To build a websites you need a domain name, hosting(where your websites will be store) and software to build your websites in less than an hour...
1. The first thing your site will need is a name. That's easier said than done
these days. All the best words in the dictionary have either already been
bought and built by developers or they've been bought and offered by
speculators.
But that doesn't mean you can't create a good name and buy it for a song.
Putting two words together with a hyphen can work (like http://www.adsense-tools.com) and there are plenty of good names available if you're prepared to move outside the world of .coms into .net and .biz etc.
Your first stop should be http://www.NetworkSolutions.com. This is a nuts and bolts service that lets you hunt and buy names, order hosting plans and even submit your site to the search engines. When you're looking for a name, you can just toss in ten options and the site will tell you which (if any) are available. Find a good one, and you can either buy it there or pick it up at http://www.godaddy.com (they can be a bit cheaper). All in, buying a name
from one of these service won't cost you more than about $9 a year.
If you can't find a name you like and that hasn't already been grabbed, you
can take a look at sites like moderndomains.com and bestnames.net. These
are companies that buy domain names and sell them for a profit. There's a good chance you'll find some good names here but they can cost you anything from $50 to $50,000. Before you part with a penny, think about the advantage that a good name can bring and ask yourself if you can't get the extra traffic a cheaper way. Often, you can.
2. Your site is going to be stored on a hosting company's server. (You didn't want thousands of people dialing into your computer every hour, did you?)
Again, there are lots of different options available depending on how much you want to pay and what you need.
In general, you'll want to make sure that you have about 50 megabytes of
space (that's enough for 100 pages!), full statistics reporting and most
importantly, 24 hour service. If your site goes down, you'll be losing money
every hour it's offline. If there's a problem with the server, you want to make
sure it's fixed right away.
You get what you pay for with Web hosting from "free" services that will cost
you more than you save to $200 a month for dedicated servers. Twenty
bucks a month is a reasonable price to pay and GoDaddy.com and
NetworkSolutions.com both offer good programs.
3. Designing The Site
It used to be said that absolutely anyone could create a website. That was true: absolutely anyone who knew HTML. Today, you don't even need to know that. Programs like Microsoft's FrontPage or NVU (which is free; you can download it at www.nvu.com) let you create sites without you needing to know your tags from your tables. If you can use Word, you can create a website.
You can either have fun playing with the programs and designing the site
yourself or you can hire a professional designer to do it for you.
Freelance sites like www.elance.com and www.guru.com are good places to advertise. You can invite designers to give you quotes and pick the best
based on price and talent. Be sure to check feedback and portfolios though; a low bid is often low for a good reason.
