I need help starting a website...?
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There is no substitute for having your own code. Here are crucial things you will need. If a site does not provide all of this you are better off hiring somebody to do a custom job for you. \n\nDo you get to download data from the database. Yahoo is a horrible place to host a biz site. One reason is if you ever decide to rehost you lose every bit of customer data you had. Nor can you get the HTML for your site. So you have to rebuild from scratch. Can you access, edit and copy the html used to create your site and is it propriatory to that host? If you cannot rehost the website it is useless to you. What happens if the hosting fees suddenly jump or something else happens that forces you to rehost or entices you to rehost? You do not want to rebuild the entire site from scratch. \n\nHow secure is the transations? This is very important. If somebody gets their credit card info ripped off from a purchase at your site you are the one who will get the blame for this. \n\nHow much room is there for expansion? Whatever you sell, you will likely branch out to other products or improve the description of your products. You need a hosting company which will allow you to add custom code to your site to do exactly this. \n\nAnother crucial factor is the ablity to display and organize your products. I personally have given up on web sites which had poorly organized product lists and made me wade through dozens of pages with maybe only one or two items on that page of possible interest. \n\nSearch capabilities are crucial. People want to quickly and easily find a product. They also want to be able to bookmark a product to share with friends or to return too after comparing with competitors. If the product detail listing does not allow you to bookmark a specific item then you will lose sales. \n\nAre any of your products contraversial or adult in nature? There are special hosts for products like that and most mainstream hosting services will not touch such endeavors. \n\nBandwidth is crucial. Customers will quickly give up in your web site is slow. \n\nWill your code work with all common browsers. A common mistake is to write code specific for IE or Firefox and not double check. Depending on who you ask IE or Firefox is the most commonly used browser today with the other running a close second. Netscape, Safari,  Mozilla, Opera, and a dozen others comprise at least %3-7 percent of the market. Few business's can afford to tell %3-7 percent of potential customers we do not want you. If you only support IE or Firefox you are telling at least half the people who visit your site that you do not want them. That is what somebody says when they do not support your favorite browser. While it is impossible to support every browser made, if you stick with WC3 complient code you will support %99.9 of the browsers out there. \n\nMake sure you get a valid cert. \n\nSSL support is %100 essential. \n\nIf you are not a good graphic artist get somebody to design your graphics. The better a site looks the more you will sell. \n\nAvoid cheesy URLs like xxx.yahoo or xxx.MSN this is a sign of a fly by night shop who will not honor warentees, returns and who will not be around or easy to find next week.
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how much do you want to do?\nto set up a website on a host like your aols, geocities and your myspaces is easy pick what option you want type of stuff.\nor \nyou could use a much more customizable program to create the website with a website making tool like front page and either have it hosted like throught the aforementioned hosts or buy yerself a domain.\nor\nyou could learn html so that you write your own website from scratch.  learing dhtml/css/javascript and others are helpfull for making a nice website. then there is the buying a domain or having it hosted options again.\nor\nyou can host the server yerself.  so you'd set up a computer with website hosting capabilities then write up the website (or again front page it) then register your ip with one of them dns servers and you'd prolly want to pay for a nice url.
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http://www.geocities.com\nhttp://www.tripod.com\nhttp://www.freewebz.com\nhttp://www.domaindlx.com\nhttp://www.brinkster.com\n\nsign up with any of them and use their wizard to create your website for free
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Sure First you need a host so Try Geocities
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Start a website seems to be the easiest thing. It won't cost you much and will put your work out there. With the right amount of promotion ... hey who knows.\nI design websites myself, but I'm quite busy right now, but if you search the web I'm sure you'll find someone to do it for you for the right price.
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Hi, I have no experience with this but I've found two sites that may help in starting up your business.\n\nGood luck!
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Go to www.geocities.com\n\nThey have templates and stuff...all you have to do is have your info!
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Geocities is a good option to start with. Its simple to sign up and manage your files. If you have Frontpage express, you don't even need basic HTML knowledge. That's what I did to make my site.\n\nGeocities page...\n\nhttp://www.geocities.com\n\nYou can have Frontpage from here...\n\nhttp://www.np.edu.sg/~bms/help/frontpage_exp_zipped.exe\n\nIn frontpage, you just need to type, or add pictures, backgrounds etc with just a click of a button. The HTML automatically builds up in the background. If you want, you can edit it too. Then you need to upload all files you have used for your Web pages, and also upload the HTML files to you File Manager. And your site is ready !\n\nGeocities allows only 15 MB per ID (you actually have to sign in with your Yahoo ID there). You migh say that 15 MB is less. But there's a solution. You can have your main Index page of your site on your main ID and make some more Yahoo IDs and for linking music files, videos etc (because they normally take up more space). But Geocities still has one more problem that the maximum size of a file you can upload is 5 MB.\n\nIf you have big files to upload, Megaupload is a good option for you. You can send files of a size of up to 250 MB to anybody (For FREE). When the file is uploaded, it gives you a link, which you can note down and put up on your site for the big files !\n\nIf you don't want Geocities, here are some more options you might want to try...\n\nhttp://www.bravenet.com\nhttp://www.angelfire.com\nhttp://www.homestead.com\nhttp://www.50megs.com\nhttp://www.250x.com (It offers a space of 250 MB)\n\nYou might also want to check out my site, which I have made without the use of ANY HTML knowledge. Its simple and what's more, I didn't have to pay anything to make it.\n\nhttp://www.geocities.com/sudeepjaiswal_2001
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you can create your own site at geocities.com for free. also at tripod.com\ncheck it out urself...\nand you can make the best site in the net
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If you are a true novice and don't want to spend much time learning how to make a site, I would suggest the current super-popular MySpace. You can quickly get your information up for all your friends to see.\n\nIf you are interested in something more, but still fairly simple try GeoCities or Yahoo.\n\nIf you are willing to learn HTML I would suggest ATSPACE.COM. You can create a website for FREE up to 50MBs in size. I have two websites through them and the uptime is great. NO ADS. You'll need an ftp program to upload your stuff. There's a good free one for personal use called "FTP Explorer". Of course you'll either need to learn HTML or use one of the WYSIWYG programs like FrontPage or DreamWeaver to actually design your site. e-mail me if you need some help...\n\nIf you want your own domain and have it hosted, I suggest ReadyHosting. You get 1GB of space unlimted e-mail accounts, FTP access and domain name registration all for $99 a year.\n\nWeb hosting site (FREE):\nhttp://www.atspace.com\nWeb hosting site (COST):\nhttp://www.readyhosting.com\nFTP Explorer site:\nhttp://www.ftpx.com\n\nA couple of my websites:\nPioneer Baseball Website (ReadyHosting - Cost)\nhttp://www.pioneerbaseball.org\nMy Son's Travel Team's Website (ATSpace.com - FREE)\nhttp://tricountytitans.atspace\nFamily Website (ATSpace.com - FREE)\nhttp://tim8w.atspace.com
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hi,\n\nTo start a web site:\n1. Name your site and see if the name is not already taken. If it is available you will have to register the name in your name. This is the domain name and you can check and buy domain names from yahoo by following the link: http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/domains/\n\n\n2. Once you have registered your name, the next step is to find a web server where your site will reside (hosted). There are various web servers available on the internet with a variety of prices and features. webhosttalk.com had some good discussion about hosting companies and the comparison of prices and features.\n\n3. Build the site. You can use MS Front page or take advantage of Yahoo web site develoment kits. These put you up and running in shortest possible time. Refer to the details at the link: http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/webhosting/sitebuilding.php
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I don't know but have you ever considered having your own website. Check out yahoo geocities. It's free!!!
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If you're serious about making a website try this product http://www.buildit.sitesell.com/Peter21.html\n\nThis program has all of the best tools to help your site succeed. Everything is included, from the domain name, to the space (which is unlimited) etc. The program also includes a tool which grades each page for you (so you can tell if it'll attract a lot of people) and submits them to search engines. I have no experience yet I've built a site that I'm actaully earning money from. You don't need t know any html. It's great!
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First you have to purchase a domain name. \nType 'Domain Names' into Google...sorry Yahoo, and browse for a supplier. The best companies will offer plenty of advice on setting up your own web site.\n\nGood Luck
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I can do this for you. My company does small business web design. I can do it for $150 and everything is included. I can have the site with a domain set up in 2 days for you & your group. Please let me know if interested. I can be reached at thepixelboutique@msn.com \n\nThanks, Krysti
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look for a hosting website, like geocities, lycos etc, or buy a domain name, and start formatting html and putting whatever you want up! there are also companies who can do it for you.\n\nif you start with geocities, you get a webpage free, but its limited and theres ads and things.
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well, http://www.freewebs.com is a goodplace to start. There you can start a website for free and the username that you make there will be what you type in to get to your website. After that go to www.dot.tk or www.shorturl.com to make a website end thing. like .com or .com.au