A Guide to Making Your Website Business 1.Obtain a Good Website Name 2.Choose a Web Host and Sign Up for an Account A web host is a online-company that has many computers connected to the Internet. When you have your business-web pages on their computers, anyone in the world will be able to pull them up and read them. By obtaining an account with a web host, you establish a home base for your new website-business. After you obtain your web hosting account, you need to point your domain to that account on your web host by redirecting your dns settings in your account at your domain name registrar's website. They have a tutorial to explain that for you there. It is not hard to do. 3.Designing your Business Web Pages Your biggest step is to design the web site itself. I presume you will be doing this yourself, unless you have a friend who can assist you, or can pay someone to do it for you. If you are employing a web designer to do it for you, you can skip over most of the next step. oAlthough there are many considerations in web design, your first goal is to get some basic pages up onto the web. You can tune it up later, after you've figured out how to get a basic web page published to the web. Many beginners will use a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) web editor to perform this first website building function. These editors permit you to design your website visually, without having to deal with so many computer-techi details. They work very similar to a wordprocessor. There are many for sale and free website-pages editors around. Two of the better free ones are nvu.com and frontpage.com. Another favored one is Kompozer. (download it for free). There is more web design software available. Perform a Google-search for terms like: "Free website tools", or, "Free website design", and similar terms. You will pull up many articles and websites to inspect for information and sometimes-free software you can use. You can find other ones listed on the website at: http://www.thefreecountry.com/webmaster/htmleditors.shtml \t "_top". 4.Testing Your Website Works Properly Testing should actually be done through every stage of designing your website. Many newbie-web builders fail to test their pages and links adequately. You will need to test your web pages as you design them in the major browsers (to make sure they work right), browsers such as: Internet Explorer 7, Internet Explorer 8, the latest versions of http://www.mozilla.com/ Firefox, http://www.opera.com and http://www.thesitewizard.com/reviews/safariforwindows.shtml" \t "_top" Safari. These browsers are free, so it is an easy manuver to install them on your computer. The Need ToCollect Credit Card Info If you will sell services or products on your website, you will need a means to collectyour visitor's credit card information. The easiest and preferred method is to sign up for a Paypal account, its free. Paypal is one of the best credit card collection processes on the web. 5.Getting Your Business WebSite Noticed and Ranked When you're prepared, you need to submit your website's address (called the URL) to the search engines, particularly Google. You can find the Google submission page by clicking on the "About Google" link on the Google website, then locating the "Submit your content to Google" link on the page that displays on your screen. You will need to trade site links with opposite websites to build up â€link strength" for the Google bots(computer Robots) to like your site and give it a favorable ranking on their search engine site. If there are many other links to your site, it will rank higher on the search engine pages and be easier for people searching the engine to find it. By Josh Holliday
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