How To Get A Website - Introduction
Your website is now a vital part of your companies brand image and marketing campaign, or it can be a tool for tellng the world about you. We are going to explain as simply as possible how to get a website online. We recommend you use one of the listed web hosts (below). Also read through the whole page, to make sure you understand everything.
Here are our 3 simple steps:
- Domain Name
- Website Hosting
- Website Content
Scroll Down For More Information On Each Step or watch our video
How To Get A Website - Domain Name
A domain name or website address, is a unique place where your website can be found. An example of a domain name is "www.google.com", or "www.google.co.uk" Your companies’ domain name can be purchased with ease from one of the website hosts listed below.
Domain names have different endings or extensions e.g. www.google.eu and www.google.mobi ; we recommend that you buy all the possible extensions to stop competitors taking your european, or mobile domain name.
Domain Extensions
How To Get A Website - Web Hosting
This makes your website work, without hosting even if you have a domain (website name) nothing will come up. With hosting there are different packages avaliable.
There are a couple of terms you may not understand, they are:
- Bandwidth/ Gb of Transfer is the engine of your website, every time someone goes on your site bandwidth transfers the pages and images to the web user. The more bandwidth you have the faster the website.
We recommend you get as much bandwith/ gb of transfer as you can afford. This is because it will make you website faster for users, this is important as if it's slow users may start thinking that your company is also slow and unprofessional. Having unlimited bandwidth will also be good for traffic.
- Gb space/ Hosting Space is another word for storage, the more storage you have the more pages, images, etc you can have on your on site.
We recommend that you get has much hosting space as you can afford, as this current time you will be unsure how much you will need, this website for example has 1 gb, but more is better.
How To Get A Website - Content
Once you have your own domain name and website hosting you need the actual website or content. (Something to put on the site)
You have 2 options you could either:
- Get your own website designer, which can be very expensive. But may pay off if you can afford it and want a very professional looking website.
- Make the website yourself using the web builder provided with your website hosting, or you may need to buy it as a extra to your website hosting.
