Your choosing to have a website can be your own private country to share with the World Wide Web of the internet. The challenge is the first day when all is dark and there are just too many recommendations to choose from and the tower of babel internet language at the beginning is puzzling. There are so many choices and decisions to make that it’s easy to get left in the dark and not find your way out. Here are some beginners tips to help you get started.
Choosing your countries domain name can be one of the most important choices that you make and it can help make or break the success of your website. The domain name is your address for the tourist’s in the world’s web will to type in when they want to visit your country. It is the URL (Uniform Resource Location) or www of your-country dot com. Your domain, as the word suggests, is your very own country where your website is located. If your country is full of cats it would cause confusion for the tourists who like cats and want to visit a cat country to have a domain name www dog dot com. So take your time when choosing a domain name and consider what your website will present to the rest of the world, how it will develop and what you want to express with your domain name.
The next step is to find a host; the host is where your virtual cat country is stored and located. It can be compared to your favorite cat pictures stored on your computer. In this case the cats and everything that you want to show the World Wide Web will be controlled by you and it will be stored on the “server”. The server is the computer that is ready 24/7 to serve your website to those who are looking for it on their computer, where they either type in your address or have located your country through a search machine.
After you have your domain name and your host then you will need your website-pages. The website pages are trickier to make then the domain name and finding a host. The pages are in your website and are created with computer language; the basic computer language is called HTML.
There are pre-made products that can be purchased in which you add your own touch to your website called website templates. With the templates, by simple copy and paste methods along with buttons to choose this or that design feature, you can create a personal touch. You may also want to work with a professional designer to create your website.
There are also free websites as well where you need very little thought and effort to get it online and add the extra touch, but your creative choices are extremely limited and often there are advertisements on your website that you have no control over. These advertisements are the means for your “free” website to be free. You cannot choose a domain name with the free website.
There is lots of information on the web for you to learn how to create your own country in the worlds web. But the best way to learn how is to use the basic information above, make the few choices that will be needed and have a new country as your personal website domain!
