If you’re new to bringing your website or business online, what you need to know at first are only three essential things, which are register a domain name, get a web hosting and build the web contents for your website.
1. Register A Domain Name – First, you need to register a domain name. Pick a domain name that is related to your company name or your business type. But keep it as short as possible. For example, if your business is about car rental, you may pick a domain name called carrental.com. But please note this too-common domain name could have been reserved or taken by others. Or you may wanna twist it a bit such as mycarrental.com.
Registering a domain name costs you around $8-9 USD a year. Cheap-domainnames.com is one of the domain name registrars providing domain name registration services. Although most web hosting service providers offers domain name registration together with the web hosting package, but I recommend you register a domain name separately rather than having the web hosting provider doing it for you, and then have the domain name servers pointing to the name servers provided your web hosting provider. This ensures you have better control in the future.
2. Get a web hosting – Web Host is the space where you can have your web pages to live and be accessible by everyone over the Internet. If this is a fresh start of a website or you do not have a large user base yet, a paid shared hosting should be sufficient to host your website for a small-capital startup. A shared hosting costs you around $80-$100 per year.
3. Build your website contents – The final thing is that you have to build your own website contents or hire someone to build one for you. Please note, it highly depends on what Internet business that you’re gonna do on your website, whether you’re setting up a informational web site like a blog with frequent update which you’ll need a CMS (e.g WordPress) or simply with a company website that does not update frequently or a web store that needs product cataloging and payment gateway services.
The cost of building the website contents could vary, it also depends on whether you need to hire someone to design and maintain the contents for you. Or you’re a little Internet and tech-savvy guy, which you can make use of any available open-source CMS such as WordPress to start maintaining your blog or your informational website. Hiring a professional web designer to design your website and add in the initial contents could cost you around $500 to $1,500 USD or more dependent on the complexity, plus some monthly maintenance fee. If you know how to handle this part yourself, this will definitely save you lots of running costs. But, we definitely encourage that you can do it yourself, which is what we’re gonna tip you soon with some CMS (Content Management Software) that will ease you most of your jobs.
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I really want to share something here about domain names. The first domain I bought, I thought I had hit the jackpot! The domain was adobe-pdf.net as I wanted to start an ebook library. It turned out that Google had previously blacklisted my domain before I bought it and after sending a reconsideration through my Google webmaster tools, it took weeks for the reply, and all I got was ‘Reconsideration Denied’ because there had been reports of the domain phishing and posing as Adobe as well as harmful malware. I pointed to the reputable site: My Web of Trust to claim their certificate, however there had been many complaints about my domain there aswell. After that I just gave up on it. So my advice, be careful what domain you choose, a whois history search to see if it had been registered previously and make sure it has not been reported to My Web of Trust before you by it.
Comment by Susan Myers — January 7, 2011 @ 2:06 am