Building a Professional Quality Web Site on a Budget

This is the initial in a multiple part rotation of articles about creating a fantastic web site

without spending a lot of money. The object audience for this assignment is everybody with some

experience (or maybe you know someone with technical ability), and you want to effect some sort of

world wide web presence with a minimal investment.

To make this report simple I am going to go with a company called godaddy.com for the domain

registration and hosting. While this essay isn't supposed to be a distinct endorsement of godaddy,

I've been satisfied with their services and using them allows me to put up some real dollar

figures.

Selecting a domain name.
This could be the hardest some of starting your internet site. There are a couple of angles we

should consider.

- Are you attempting to promote your brand?
- Are you attempting to get good search engine rankings?
- Will you be trying to convey an idea?

I'd be willing to bet will you be are trying to do a bit of all three. Just bear in mind this,

minus patrons, your brand name and idea are verging on futile. Try to get a worthwhile correlation,

but recognize to decide on a domain name with a couple of keywords that you are attempting to

address in your SEO (search engine optimization). If you are lacking knowledge in SEO, you can

find piles of info and mis-information on the internet about it. Some of my future papers will

further explain this, so depending on when you are studying this you may want to try one of the web

sites listed in the author resource box for further clarification.

Is your domain name obtainable?
Ok, you know which domain name you want, but is it procurable? Go to http://www.godaddy.com and do

a domain name search. Most hosting and registration services have this ability and it will be easy

to find on their home page. There is no charge for seeing if your domain name is not already taken.

If it is, then it's time to purchase, if not, most larger services (like godaddy) have alternative

suggestions. Sometimes they get it right, but most of the time you'd be better off to come up with

another concept. Keep in mind, don't rush on this one, it is an important decision.

Purchasing your domain name
Have a credit card? Then the majority of your work is complete. Just follow the on screen

instructions, be sure to take your time filling out the information, I have heard stories of

persons who've had their domains shut down due to incorrect information (bad phone #, address or

e-mail). For your e-mail address, make sure it's a reliable account that you're going to have for a

long time. I nearly lost the earliest domain I registered seeing that the renewal request was

delivered to an e-mail account that I no longer check.

What extras should i buy?
During the procedure of buying your domain, godaddy will ask you "are there any extras you would

like?" Or the world wide web complement anyway. They will bombard you with a myriad of options,

all of which can be bought later. Also, at this time the only one you might be interested in is

hosting. I myself chose the deluxe hosting package (on linux) which was %5.59/month for a period

of twenty four months. It gave me more than enough space and respectable bandwidth. Along with

that, gave me control of MySQL databases, Java and PHP all of which were vital to my design. Also,

the http server is from apache, which I have a little experience with and almost all online guides

are geared towards.

Godaddy also allows me to set up many 10MB e-mail accounts for my business or personal use. So, if

you were thinking of adding anything at this time, the internet hosting is recommended.

There you have it, you've paid for a domain and some internet hosting. You've taken the opening

move to having a web presence. Your next step will be preparing your site for content...but that

my peers is another dissertation.

For more information on setting up a web presence without spending a lot of money, surf to one of

my web sites in the author resource box.

Johnny is a Java expert who has almost 30 years software development experience. His most recent endevour is a series of web sites all under the gocurious domain. He is attempting to build a successful web business using only Open Source and free products. Consider this an experiment if you will, he is using this go guage the future direction of the software industry. See more of his work at Christmas Wonderland

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