does it cost money to have your own website?
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no, not if you don't want it to, some companies will host your website for free if they can advertise on it, making your website look a little un-proffessional and the website address not so customisable. If you pay a small free for a host then they will usually let you use whatever website address you want and will not advertise on your website.
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First, you will have to decide if you wish to use your own domain name (i.e., http://www.mydomain.com) or prefer to use a subdomain (i.e., http://www.yahoo.com/myshop/) You may wish to consider using Yahoo Small Business for your needs until you get more capital - http://sbs.smallbusiness.yahoo.com/webhosting/?p=1 for as low as $8.95 a month. (i.e., I will not post links to other commercial businesses that offer these services because its a violation of Yahoo rules but you can Google them). The Yahoo Starter package includes all the things you need to get started, including MySQL (you can even create a customized shopping cart), PHP, etc and enough pages to suit your for as long as you are still a small businesses. It also offers over 200 email addresses, and a Sitebuilder with templates that you could get started with.\n\nYou may also consider using your home computer to host your own website for free. It would need to have an dedicated internet connection and server software such as Apache (free web server). I wouldn't recommend this until you have more experience and capital.
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Well, I suppose you can do it on any website you create. Just subscribe to Yahoo Web Hosting for $11.95 a month. Then they give you Yahoo SiteBuilder software for free and anyone can do anything really easy with their software. No html coding. They do it for you and you just click away and presto.
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If you already have the website, all you need is a host and domain name (You can usually register the domain when you order your hosting agrrement). Otherwise you can find someone else to make the website for you, but that's usually very expensive.
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Check with your local ISP.  They frequently have someone on staff who can develop a basic site for you. If you are looking for something more substantial, it may cost you, but check the yellow pages ...\n\nIf I knew where you lived, I might be able to recommend someone more specific ...\n\nIn the end, decide what exactly you want to accomplish with your website, and shop around.  Be obvious, tell everyone who quotes you that you are loking for the best deal !!
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Depends on the goals of your website. Will you be attempting to sell products on the website? If so then your cost will be greatly increased. As for myself, I am currently designing my website because I do web design in my spare time and basically through Yahoo, you can host a good informational website for $20 a month. At the most it will cost you maybe $100 a month to host your site. If you design it yourself then all it will cost is time. If you want a merchant solution your cost will be increased but I could not give you a definite answer of cost.
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I have my website on godaddy. If you buy a domain name (web address) from them for just $8 or so, they'll include free hosting (with ads), or you can pay for extra hosting without ads. It also comes with a site builder so it'll be easy to create your website.\n\nHowever, I'd definitely recommend studying html and css so you can customize your page to just the way you want it. It may take some time, but it's worth the effort. Check out W3Schools for tutorials.
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Well you've got some good answers there. But consider:\n\n1) If you're on a free site, you will not be taken seriously by anyone considering a product purchase, AND you probably won't get approval for the more lucrative affiliate programs or advertising systems. Which may or may not be an issue.\n\n2) Having a "real" website complete with domain name is not as expensive as you might think. Staring at around $9 per year for the domain name and $3 a month for the site.
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The answer I give is one where you get it hosted by provider and where it is a content managed system CMS. This means that the operational part and often the design is managed by others and you simply choose the features you want to use for your website and then create and add the web content to the website yourself... \n\nThese CMS websites need no knowledge of html and other crap to make them run as someone else looks after it all... See www.easywebstarts.com.au as an example... It uses a CMS system by provided by eknowhow in Australia. \n\neknowhow are all round the world and do a free design and provide all the website technology, hosting and training and at easy webstarts, we pay a hosting fee and manage the website content ourselves...\n\nNo need to learn all the hard code or flash and other web stufff, we simply log in to a management area and tick the box, upload the info or cut and paste and save it to the web with a button... We manage it all ourself and we even have a 14 your old doing graphics and writing articles and publishing on a kids website for one of our clients... \n\nIn other words, we cut and paste articles we create off our own computers and use our own graphics and publish it live to the internet ourself...\n\nAll for under $77 bucks AUD per month or about $55 USD per month... \n\nThey (eknowhow) provide the website technology stuff like updates and we simply manage the info through a browser from anywhere in the world... Its easy and fun and looks and works brilliantly at a low cost.... \n\nSee www.easywebstarts.com.au or www.inventconnect.com.au as examples or even go to www.eknowhow.com or www.eknowhow.com.au for a free online demo.
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Why not build your own website?  Think of all of the savings.
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It's fairly easy. If you want to own your own domain then you need to purchase it. If that is the case then go to http://www.doteasy.com \nIf you want a free page then you can go to several free page hosts but since we are on yahoo go to yahoo/geocities http://geocities.sbc.yahoo.com/
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There are several places available on the internet where you can start your personal homepage or a blog (web log, journal) for fee or for free. Web pages contain files, such as HTML, images, graphics etc that need to be hosted on a web server. Also they need a URL address that points to them.\n\nBoth services you can get free or if you require more options for a fee. Often they are both provided by the same service provider.\n\nOnce you sign up for an account, there is (most of the times) a collection of easy to use tools so you can add content and customize your personal web page.\n\nAssuming you are new to this, and have no knowledge of programming or HTML, you could start by visiting the web sites listed below. Good luck!
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$500 is a good figure to start with.  Depending on the content and amount of work involved, you may want to go up or down on that figure.  Since you are new at this, you may have to compromise a bit on the price in order to get the business and to have this site added to your portfolio of web projects.
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there are a number of places that will let you create your own website for free. some of the most popular ones are xanga.com and freewebs.com.
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The hosting company serves and stores your webpages so that people can see if when they access your URL. There are a lot of options out there to choose from. You can ge it for as cheap as 5 dollars a month. You can choose if you want your own domain, so it would be something custom like joesmoeswebsite.com or you can sign up with something free like GeoCities.
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Well, some websites cost money. But you could make a free one, it just won't be as good. (See sources for link.) I made one, but you can only have 7 pages if you have a free one, unless you're willing to pay the money.
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For less than $1.00 per day, you can create an amazing web site with all the tools you can imagine, such as keyword optimization, page analysis, visitor tracking, graphics integration, and much more.\n\nSee my site.  It's the first link.  The second link is to the site I used to create my site.