So you want to have your own website? But you don’t even know where to start. Well that is what this post is all about, showing you how you can have your own website.
Firstly there are a couple of things that you will need. You will need to register your domain name for example www.mydomainname.com , there are a lot of companies that will do this for you on the internet, this is really not very expensive depending on the type of domain you want (.com, .co.za, .biz, .org…). Be careful, you have to renew your domain name each year, so as not to lose your domain name. But usually your host (discussed next) will do this for you.
After you have a domain name you must find a company that will host your website for you, this is called your web host or simply just your host. When looking for a host there are a couple of things that you have to look out for, number one is how reliable is your host, how much uptime do they have, simply put the more uptime they have the less your site will be offline.
Secondly what is the amount of Disk space that they offer you, usually websites aren’t really that big, but they can get quite big if and when your business expands Usually a good starting size is about 5 gigabytes .
Thirdly you must check how much bandwidth they offer you. Bandwidth is basically how much data can be transferred to and from your site, think of it as a road, the more lanes are in it the more cars can drive on it. The same with bandwidth the more bandwidth you have, the more people can visit your site. Example: your page is 10MB in size, so every person who visits your site, automatically downloads 10MB of data to view your first page, now say 1000 people visit your site that is already 10 GB so watch out how much bandwidth you have.
You also have to check what is their line speed, this is the fastest that a web browser can download your page. Usually hosts have a very fast internet connection so you do not really have to worry about this.
Lastly you must also see what services they offer, like data bases (If your site needs a lot of updating, like a blog, then I would recommend using databases) and depending on what your site does, can the host’s server (the computer that you save your website on) support client and server side scripting?
After you have a domain name and a host you must start writing your own website. Websites are written in HyperText Markup Language or HTML. This is not a true programming language but a markup language using tags like and
to change the format and layout of your webpage.
After you have Written your website and tested it to make sure all the links work, you have to upload it to your ftp server, (the address and login details should be provide by your host).
And that is it, that is all it takes to get a website.
Below are a couple of links that you might find useful in your web developing.
http://www.mweb.co.za/productspricing/Hosting/uncappedhosting.aspx
Mweb is a host situated in South Africa, that offers a really good Uncapped hosting package. They have uncapped disk space and bandwidth, and also their web hosting packages are very affordable.
http://www.axxess.co.za/hosting-south-african
This is also a very good host in South Africa, they do not offer as much as Mweb, but I would recommend them.
http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp
This site will teach you everything you need to know about HTML and other web developing languages, all for free.
http://filezilla-project.org/
Filezilla is a free FTP client to help you with uploading your site to the server.
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