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5 Necessary Steps You Should Take When Hosting Your Website.

So You've decided to have an online website for your business.
Before doing you will need to follow the following 5 steps in
before hosting your website online

1. Design your Website

You will firstly need to design the website for this I would
recommend hiring a Web Designer. Before contacting a web
designers you should always check the portfolio and there
skills. If you just want to advertise your business then you
need to look for a web designer who knows how to use graphical
programs such as Macromedia dreamweaver, flash, fireworks and
Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Imageready, Indesign as well as
knowledge of HTML, DHTML, CSS and Javascript. However if you
want to sell items online or have some technical calculations
etc then you should get a web designer with knowledge of online
Databases, PHP, MYSQL, perl, .net , HTML, Javascript and CSS

2. Search for a Domain Name

The Domain name is an important part of your website as this
is this web address of your actual website. You need to look
for your business name in a domain name but don't sign up to
the domain name until you find a suitable hosting company in
stage 3

3. Sign Up to a web hosting and domain company

You will now have to sign up to a hosting company which will
also register your domain name. Look around and find the
cheapest you can find and make sure you check the disk space
can fit against your very own website as if your website is
over 50 Megabytes (MB) and the hosting company has a hosting
package that offers you 25MB disk space then you won't be able
to put your website within this hosting package as the disk
space is to small. You should also check to see if they can
give you a free domain name with this service as well as see
whether you get a discount if you pay a year in advance.

4. Upload your website

Now that you have the hosting package you will need to upload
the web pages to your website using a file transfer program
this you can download for free or web hosting company may
offer this to you. They will give you username and passwords
wither by email or by post which you need to enter before you
transfer the files online and it may take about 24 hours before
your website is active so you may have to wait for a little
while before you can upload your website to the internet.

5. Advertise Your website

The final step in having a website is advertising your website.
This is a very important stage in creating a website as without
it you will literally be invisible on the web. You will need to
submit your website to search engines and make sure you have
appropiate meta tag keywords on your website and within your
content as this will attract the search engine to your website.
You can exchange your web links with other web sites this is
called web exchange and you can buy advertising space with on
selected websites.

As you can see you have a lot to think about when putting your
website together however if you follow the steps that I have
included in this article you should find that having a website
is benefical to you and your business.

Article written by steven saunders.