Step 1. Get a Domain name.

This is a crucial step. Just as you can’t go through life without a name, you also can’t put up a website without a domain name. But what exactly is a domain name?

Webopedia.com defines it simply as a ‘name that identifies one or more IP addresses and is used in URLs to identify particular Web pages.’ And because it ‘identifies’ your website, it is important that you choose a good one. There are three things that you need to keep in mind when making your choice.

It should be short (because you want people to remember it). It should be relevant (to your site). And (this is very important if you don’t want legal hassles later on) it should not contain any trademarked terms or phrases. Some examples of more popular domain names are www.google.com, www.yahoo.com and www.microsoft.com.

Once you’ve chosen your domain name, you then need to have it registered. You do this by using the services of an ICANN-certified domain name registrar, a list of which is provided at InterNIC.

If you don’t want to go through the hassle of this process yourself, there are many web hosts that will do so for you (either included in their hosting plans as a free service, or for a modest price). You need to make sure though, that the domain name the web host gives you is ‘portable’ (read: you can continue using it even if you change hosts later on)¹.

Step 2. Design your site

No matter what your budget is, or what web programming skills you do (or don’t) have, there is an option available for you.

If you’re on a tight budget, have some web design experience and don’t mind spending some time on a project, then software programs such as Macromedia Dreamweaver, DIY Web Kit and Microsoft FrontPage may be for you. These programs offer pre-designed templates you can add content to and have features that allow you to design, edit and preview, as well as enable you to add simple dynamic elements (ex. forms and search boxes) to your pages.

If you’re in hurry and are willing to shell out a bit more money for your site, turn-key site creation services, like J&K Enterprises, E Biz Network, and ReadyWebsites.com, may be your best option. You simply choose from their array of layout and graphics options, enter your text, add a dynamic element here and there through an easy-to-use interface, and voila! You have an instant personal or professional web site.

But if you’re an insanely rich fellow or just someone who’s willing to spend mucho dinero for your site, then a professional web design firm is for you. Although more expensive, you’ll have more flexibility and will probably come up with a more distinct look for your site. You can also add more complex dynamic elements to your website(s) as well.

Some questions to consider before making your choice, though:

1. Do I like their previous work? (look through their portfolio)
2. Were their clients satisfied? (repeat clients, referrals, client list)
3. How about the company’s background? (history, designers etc.) and,
4. Do I get all the rights to the completed site?

Tip: A number of scripts that perform common tasks on the web are available for free online. Simply key-in what you need on Google or other search engines.

Step 3. Decide on your choice of: hosting type, web host and of course, web hosting plan.

There are a variety of web hosting setups available, depending on your budget and the type of web site you want to put up. The most common ones are shared hosting, dedicated hosting and co-location. Information on these types, as well as others, is provided on our hosting type page.

After you’ve decided on a hosting type, search for companies that offer that service. (This will probably yield hundreds of returns.)

Once you’ve cut down your list to a reasonable number, it is now time to start going through their plans. The sheer number of web hosting plans available might be overwhelming, but a good way to narrow down the list is to pay attention to your needs.

But what exactly do you need to run a website?

Now that you have your own checklist of requirements, what’s next? Well, you simply match them to the plans available. But what if you’re still left with a substantial list to choose from? Then compare and evaluate the plans. How?

Before we go to the last step, we need to recap.

After the first step (selection and registration of your Domain name), you should have already created a name server account.

After the second step (site Design), you should already have web pages that are ready for upload.

And with the third step (Decisions, decisions), you should have already signed up with a web host, paid for your chosen hosting plan and received a confirmation email containing that oh-so-important name server(s) and other information needed to view and manage your site.

The final step would then be:

Step 4. Deploy your site.

How do you do this?

You need to login to your account first (from the first D) and change your domain’s name server to that received in the email (fourth D). It usually takes about 48 hours for these changes be propagated across the Internet. Meanwhile, you can upload all your site’s files (HTML, graphics, programming) to the hosting account, either though an FTP client, a web page editor or the control panel of your site.

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My view is the usual thing. I think this new rule proves that their PR thing has failed miserably and in order to avoid admitting that they (as every major corporation) are going to pass the buck on the “small guy” (us). Like You I don’t think they ever will develop such an algorithm as it is very much impossible. Why? If a human cannot distinguish between a paid link and a normal link than he will not be able to program a computer to recognize that. I think what will end up happening is that they will start punishing everyone. Virtually every webmaster is paying for links. (those that do not have an unknown websites). Sooner or later they also are going to start doing that to forums and so on. After awhile places like the biggest directories and forums and Text-link-ads and so on are going to start loosing money as many will not be paying to have their link shown somewhere without any effect. I know that most of the links that I have bought and sold will not get any hits ever, but their number does help in that same stupid PR and the sites search popularity. If those links are going to be marked as “nofollow” and put into the supplemental results then they are useless and I am sure as hell not going to pay Yahoo $300/year for a listing.
To me this is simply another way that Google is helping to put a nail into their coffin.

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I have been hearing a lot about all this PTC and PTR and PTP and so on. So I have decided to try some of them to see what the hell is all the buzz is about. What a waste of time. I have joined a few of them (ADBux, trafficSwarm, Bugonptc and etc.) First thing I have noticed is that they have two sorts of memberships, free and paid. That pretty much told me right off the get go that they are scam. Any company that wants their “employees” to pay for the previledge to work there is a scam. That just does not make any sense to me. As a free member You certainly ain’t going to make much at all. In fact it will cost You more to run Your computer than what You will make there. And all those so-called points that You might earn get You nothing. I have gotten thousands of points towards having my site rotated in their manual surf programs yet the most that my site has been rotated is 12 times.

I have also thought of purchasing credits. I did so with the BugonPTC. For $10.00 I have purchased 25000 visitors. In the last three days I have received only 46 new visitors from them. So, that’s about 15 visitors a day. If being generous with the data it would take more than 5 years for that project to complete. That’s bullshit.

The subject of this programs has become very interesting to me so I will keep looking through the pile and keep You updated.

By the way I would suggest also not purchasing any programs that offer a very quick way to make thousands of dollars. I know You have been warned about all those programs before, but let me remind You ones again. Think about this. If those so-called millionaires really make that much money of the programs they promote than why do they all look like they have just escaped from the trailer park or a looney bin and why do their sites look like crap. Some of them actually admit that they aren’t really selling anything but the ad itself. You’ll end up paying a $100 dollars for the cheap ass website that You would have to spend a whole lot of time and money to promote. This programs are failing all over the place. Especially because google as well as many other search engines don’t like spam. It is cheaper to actually build and promote a real website, get it to, for example, PR5 and sell it. Good websites promote themselves all You have to do is spread the word. Junk sites never get anywhere, require tons of time and money for promotion and usually only seen in supplemental index and spam indexes.

Whatever You do, don’t try to make a quick buck as You will only end up paying more for it.

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