Hosting a Website
In this section you can expect to learn:
- What is a home page and about index.htm(l)...
- Why you should build your site offline...
- What exactly is web hosting...
- About free web hosting...
- Personal web hosting services...
- The pitfalls of searching for free ecommerce web hosting...
- A list of the best free web hosts...
- All about registering a domain name...
- What to look for in commercial web hosting...
- Some common web hosting terminology explained...
The following provides an introduction and a link to each page in this section:
Hosting a Website 101
Before you begin hosting a website on the internet you'll need to understand a few basics concerning navigation including how to establish your website's home page. Web addresses that have no file tacked on to the end of them, such as
http://www.example.com/, will typically call up a directory listing instead of a web page. The importance of naming certain files on your website index.htm in order to establish a home page is discussed here...Building a Website Offline
Building a fully functional version of your website offline is the best way to get accustomed to the whole feel of hosting a website online. Your offline replica can be used to test hyperlinks, test image loading and it can serve as a backup in case you lose your online files...
What is Web Hosting?
To better understand what to look for in reliable web hosting, it will be good to know exactly what a web host is. This page discusses this...
Free Web Hosting Info
Free website hosting providers are quite often taken for granted (usually to the detriment of those using them). The reality of free web hosting sites is discussed here including the inescapable fact that hosting costs money and that —just like anything else— free hosting is a business and is intended to make a profit...
Personal Web Hosting Services
Personal web hosting services have been around for quite awhile and have started to evolve. This page discusses some of the old-style personal web hosts like Geocities and Bravenet...
Free Ecommerce Web Hosting
Here's a discussion on why looking for free web hosting for a small business is a bad idea especially if you're trying to sell something online. Competition is fierce and if you want to maintain a competitive edge then you can't afford to look like an amateur...
Best Free Web Hosting
Here's a short list of some of the best free web hosting solutions to be found on the net with or without PHP support. These are totally free web hosts in that you're not required to buy a domain to get a free hosting account or nor are you required you to post to a message board to keep your account alive...
Affordable Domain Name Registration
A professional web presence starts with having your own domain name and it's not as expensive as you think to buy one. Here's some info on domain name registration...
Affordable Website Hosting
Professional website hosting these days is dirt cheap and, for the extra added security and features, it may be well worth it to simply forget about free web hosting and just go for a paid solution...
Web Hosting Terminology
This page explains in detail some common web hosting terms that you're bound to run across as you're researching various web hosting packages...
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