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Where to Start with a Website
March 19th, 2007
I’ve come to realize that there are a lot of people visiting this site who know very little about the whole process of setting up a good website. I’m sure there are many who are intimidated by the process, as well as those who simply haven’t due to the apparent exorbitant prices of doing so.
I want you to know that setting up and maintaining a website does not have to be either difficult or excessively expensive. In fact, you can do it for under $11 / month. The only thing that might be confusing to some is simply terminology and I’ll do my best in this lesson to explain what things are as well as how they work.
When it comes right down to it, there are three simple aspects to creating a website.
1. You need something called “HOSTING”.
HOSTING is simply the word that we use to refer to where your website is stored. We will use the analogy of a house. In this analogy, your HOSTING provider is sort of like your house. You can put things INTO your house… and people can come TO your house to see the things that you have on display.
When you get HOSTING, you receive something like an address. Just as with a real house, this address indicates to other people where they can find your website. Now, unfortunately, this address can be complicated at times. Usually, it is in the form of a number something like 192.168.125.57. Sometimes, you may not have a specific number at all, so using this address can be fairly complicated for people. That’s why we get the next item on the list called a “DOMAIN”.
This website, for example, is hosted at DreamHost. They’re a company down in California which specializes in HOSTING and they’re both good and inexpensive. In fact, we very highly recommend them. For under $10 / month, they provide everything that we need to run this website, and they make it VERY easy to use. Check out DreamHost if you’re looking for somewhere good to host your websites.
We also have HOSTING COUPONS for $50 OFF. Click for more info.
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About the Owner of WarkenSoft Productions
7 March 2007
As owner and author of this blog, I would like to take a little time to introduce myself and give some background on what it is that I do. My name is James Warkentin and I work as a full time PHP programmer at a non-profit ministry in Canada called TruthMedia. TruthMedia is […]
Site Downtime
25 February 2007
You may have noticed that over the last few hours this site has been up and down. This has been due to problems with our web host and a planned outage which took some wrong turns, ending up longer than expected. If you can read this, you’re one of the lucky ones who […]
Strongbad on Website Design
10 October 2006
This little clip has been around for a while, but it’s still a great demonstration of what NOT to put on your website. Courtesy of http://www.homestarrunner.com/
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All About Website Hosting
4 October 2006
So you want to build a website, and you’ve heard about website hosting, but you’re not sure what it’s all about. This tutorial is for you!
Simply put, your website host is the company or person who stores your website, and makes it available to be viewed on the internet. This person usually has […]
Website Traffic and Statistics
4 October 2006
A key component in building and maintaining a successful website is the ability to keep track of how many visitors are coming to your website. You want to know where they are coming from, and which pages they are looking at and finding most useful.
Often, in order to keep track of these traffic statistics […]
WarkenSoft Productions Introduction
1 October 2006
Welcome to our brand new (redesigned) website. Our goal here is to provide webmasters with tips, ideas and strategies, helping them to build better websites.
Here you will find tips on CSS coding, search engine optimization strategies, ideas for website designs and other great webmaster tools. We want to help you be more efficient […]