How To Start A Business Website
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Did you know over 2,000,000,000 searches are performed everyday? That is why it is important more then ever to get your site online.
1. We need to think of a name for your website so we can create a domain. You always want to include a keyword like www.suesflowershop.com. Notice that I included Flower Shop into the domain? This will make it easy for people to find you on the search engine.
2. Now we need to register that domain before someone else takes it! Domains a unique and no one can have the same name. You can check to see if your domain is available and register it at several website like: http://client.madcowhost.com/domainchecker.php http://www.godaddy.com/default.aspx http://www.websitespot.com/
Once you register the domain and pay for it you are one step closer to having your website online!
3. Now that we are all registered with a domain, we need to get web hosting. Web Hosting is provided by web hosting company that offers a certain amount of space on their server for you. There are several company's that offer web hosting and domains combo. Here is a list of trusted web hosting company's: http://www.madcowhost.com/ http://www.hostgator.com http://www.rackspace.com/ http://www.godaddy.com/default.aspx
We recommend that you buy both the domain and the hosting at the same time. That way it will all be processed at once and the domain name servers will be pointed at the right place.
4. Now that our hosting is all linked up and everything seems to be working. We need to make a website! There are several content management systems that allow you to do it yourself and use templates like joomla or wordpress, but what if you want something unique? Something that referents your company? Something professional? or maybe you do not have the time to do it yourself. There is a solution! You can get custom web design from the following company's: http://www.madcowhost.com/ www.crea7ive.com/ www.solarvelocity.com
Once your website is create, you are ready to upload it to your hosting account! You can ask the web hosting or web design company to do this for you if you do not know how.
