How do you get a website & is it expensive?
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If you want a website having a www.yourname.com then you have to pay a fee per year to register and to keep that name. Also you have to pay for hosting a website with that name. Celebrities, business people and organization  use it. If you are a casual home user, and having no commercial interest in making a website then you can use one of the free websites with blogs.\n\nhere is a list of free ones.\n\nhttp://360.yahoo.com\n(needs no registration for yahoo users)\nhttp://beta.blogger.com\n(good for blogging)\nhttp://www.bebo.com\n(popular, extremely simple and easy)\nhttp://www.hi5.com\n(new one, simple and easy)
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Wow, may I suggest consultation with discloser with whoever and make a plan, it is not cheap nor easy to setup a high end site.  Hardware expenses, software, payroll, marketing, design, implementation.  It is possible, I suggest CONSULTATION first\n\nHogan Courrier
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you can go to freewebs.com but it will cost a bit
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Easiest: Find someone to build ,maintain and secure your website.\n              They know web design, CGI, Html and SSL/TSL.\n               Price is not important, They must know what you want or required.\nEasy and Best: Get a seller/merchant account on Ebay(tm) and PayPal(tm) http://www.ebay.com \nSmall fee, great flexibility\nDIY :\n1)Get OpenSSL free at http://www.openssl.org \nFor secure Credit,ATM and Mastercard processing\n2)Get Apache Server free at http://httpd.apache.org \nFor processing the Site online\n3)Get a Static IP address from your Internet Service Provider so the customer can always find you. Need cash too.\n4)Learn SQL(Stock data and Client data), Html, CSS and JavaScript(Browser interaction) from\n    http://www.w3schools.com\nto design your Site\nHope This is Useful :)\nsidenote: You can use cookies to track buyer preference.\nIf possible read up on Firewalls Too.
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To purchase a good web hosting site I would recommend www.opportunity4more.ws.  Free 7 Day Trial and after that $10.00 per month.  That's it! When you join they will supply you with Website and 10 E-mails that you own for life!  They have site builder and tools as well as Templetes so you can create your own website the way you want it. \n\nThere is a business aspect to it as well, but you do not have to take part in that if you do not wish!  \n\nIf you need someone to create the site for you Opportunity4more has in the past created websites for others.  You can ask them what they offer and how much they would charge for this.  All I know is that they have created some really good websites in the past for other companies that have been very successful. Just so you know I have used them for my own website hosting and website creation and they were ecellent at getting it up and running and it looked great!\n\nThe other websites they have that market the same webhosting site are www.money.ws/2success4u, www.movie.ws/2success4u/show, www.freedom.ws/2success4u.  Hope this helps!
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The added cost comes in more forms than just money. If you want a great website that will fulfill your agenda, it's better to pay for one than get a free one that will let you down. Especially if you can get one from dreamhost.com at a huge discount by using FREETRAP as the discount code when you sign up.
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you can buy your own website. I could sell you one, it will be all set up and ready to use.
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I would start with finding out what the going rates are for advertising on similar web-sites. Get the rates on everything from large banner ads to smaller ads. You may also want to look into how they set the rates. I would guess that the advertisers would by a set amount of impressions. I would then figure out all of my costs. Everything from Toll Free #'s, to office space, to building and maintaining your website. This should give you a rough idea of whay your can expect. The real problem comes when you need to find the advertisers. How will you convince them to spend $ with you. How do you plan to get visitors to your site. If an institution is going to spend $ to advertise on your site you need to assure them that they are getting relevant impressions. Best of Luck.
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A small business like that doesn't really have any kind of large budget for something like this.  So even though this type of work is worth $40 per hour, these small markets will never pay that.  The only way they can get websites is to get people they know to do it for $15 - $20.  So even though you are worth more, tell them you will do it for less or else you will scare them away.
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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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Hey I am just starting to work with web design but people tell me that I'm really good\na website i just designed: http://paramusrunning.bravehost.com\n\nSince I'm new at this i wouldn't charge a lot.\nContact me if you want to know more about my services.
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Ecommerce is not cheap. The development of a robust ecommerce system especially with the type of business you have in mind is not something that can be done with $9.99 monthly. \n\n1. Develop your unique selling proposition. Before you even think of starting your website and spending money on ecommerce development, ask yourself: What is so special with the online bookshop I am planning that people will come to me instead of going to Amazon to buy a book? How different will you be from your competitors? \n\nIf you can't answer this satisfactorily, then you have an uphill climb ahead considering the big boys you will be competing. If you are going to focus exclusively on a niche such as everything and anything religious, then you may stand a chance.\n\n2. Line up suppliers. Get an account with book wholesalers such as Ingram Books http://www.ingrambook.com/home.asp and other book wholesalers. You need to get good low prices as profit margins for books are very tight, especially with the heavily discounted prices Amazon.com and Overstock are offering.\n\n3. Begin the process of developing your online storefront - get a domain name, find an ecommerce webhost, find shopping cart systems, buy license for SSL encryption, get merchant account, choose payment gateway provider, hire programmer and web designer to create your site.\n\n4. Join associations such as American Booksellers Association http://www.bookweb.org to network with other booksellers and learn more about the industry\n\n5. Develop a plan to market your website.\n\nThe above are just very simple steps - there's so much more layers to the above. One article that I found very useful is "7 Steps to Successful Web Site Development" http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol142/website.htm  as it takes to you all the decision steps that you need to take when starting an online business. Like any other business, startup period is full of "should I do this" or "should I do that" questions. The article is useful because it helps you think through every step of the way - from why do you want a website to who is your audience to how will you create your website to how you will market your new website.
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Try Microsoft Live Office. You can build a website for free for a limited time, but if you move up to the $30 month it's much better. Start with free & see how it goes. I'm currently building a website there & while it's a bit of a struggle I'm sticking with it.
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i recommend http://www.freewebs.com\nits free but you pay to use your own domain eg: example.com\nalso yahoo sitebuilder is very good too.... you pay a monthly fee...\n\nwhen your site is done, register it with google:\nhttp://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl\n\nand yahoo:\nhttp://submit.search.yahoo.com/free/request\n\nhope this helps :)
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It depends on what you want.\n\nyou can get a free site at geocities\n\nor you can pay as little as $2.00USD per month\n\nand if you want your own domain, the average .com is about $8.00 USD\n\nOh, and list it in as many search engines as possible, and exchange links with other websites.
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I guess a lot would depend on just what sort of site you wanted - whether it was a business site or just a couple of personal pages.\n\nA good place to start is to get a free site and experiment a little.  Try Yahoo Geocities http://geocities.yahoo.com/ or Lycos Tripod http://www.tripod.lycos.co.uk both of which are free.\n\nGeocities also comes with PageBuilder and SiteBuilder which are programs you can use to create your website.  They're quite basic but will give you a flavor of what's involved.\n\nIf you want to progress further then you'll need your own domain and hosting package which needn't cost any more than a few dollars a month.  At this point you'd want to look at something a bit more advanced for creating your pages and Microsoft Front Page is the industry standard.\n\nIt's hard to be specific as the questions is rather like saying 'procedure for writing a book' but start off with a free site and learn a few tricks from that.  You'll pick up lots of stuff as you go along.  Good luck.