In the real world, you got a name, an address, in short, a unique identity. Similarly, in the virtual world you would also need an identity…. Something which is unique and represents you and your website… Something which like your name or address… Something which is a DOMAIN. Yeah! that’s the most convenient way to reach a website.
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What we were talking about was where to get hosting from and I hope you might be through with an account by now. In case, you are not, just leave a message (as a comment) and I will try to help.
You should have received the welcome mail with your hosting details. It should include the following:
These include you user name and password.
Your site’s domain name (should be a sub domain provided by the host/domain you signed up with) and cpanel’s address.
These should include name servers and might include shared ip address.
You will need the server details later once you’ll get your domain name. But if the host asks for a domain name at signup, get a co.cc domain from http://co.cc.
Once you have an account,you should get thorough with the control panel. Just wander around,click on random links, to get familiar with your control panel. You will generally find short instructions coming up for your help once you navigate to any page.
Navigate to the file manager and find you main root folder its generally public_html or ht docs (depends on the service ). Now use, ‘create a new’ file option to create new html document with file ‘ index.html ‘ (don’t use any other name for this time ). For the content go for anything like ‘hello world ! Welcome to my new site’.
Now you are surely through with the hosting so now you need to learn how to set up stuff on it like blogs, forums, etc.
Next chapter will help you learn about setting up domains.
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Part-1
Well, other tutorials might suggest you to a create a site and then host it afterwards but I find the following sequence better. As a beginner, making a fast online presence is quite important.
I don’t agree with the idea of launching a site on a particular day or put count downs. I have tried this and believe me , it just wont work. No one’s interested in your site till you really got some viewable stuff on it.
You should get started from the first day itself. Behave a little shameless and invite people to your site ignoring how bad it looks. Constant diligent hard work, maintenance and promotion is what’s needed for a brand new site.
And now back to topic.
A web server is expensive and needs a lot of maintenance which, in turn, means more money and time. So we need an alternative and that’s where web space/hosting comes into play.
Hosting is a popular keyword widely used among webmasters. It generally stands for a little space on a web server which allows your files to be viewed on internet using a web browser(eg. Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, etc.).
A browser connects to the web server and displays the files user has asked for. So the first thing is to arrange for web space.
Just like a web server, hosting might sound to be a costly affair. But the truth is that there are loads of hosts providing web space for free. Though, they lack in a few essentials services you might need later. But for now they would do.
Go with http://byethost.org. I think they should be highly suited for our purpose.
Or else.. Google’s always there for you. Search for keywords like ‘free host’, ‘free hosting’, ‘free web space’, etc. and you’ll find thousands of them. Keeping searching till you find something which suits your requirements best.
….Continued in part 2.
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Originally posted on 12 February 2009
This the 2nd part of the Chapter 2 of the tutorial series, I started long ago! Let’s get started.
From where we left was the functionality that the scripting languages provide.
Now in Part 2, we will discuss about the following:
1. Site traffic
2. Search Engines and other traffic sources
3. Optimizing your site
Like you need automobiles on the road, the same way you need visitors or readers on your site. Amount to people visiting your website is usually referred to as site’s traffic. Actually, the motto of a site is to spread awareness about something. As the time will pass you’ll come to know that getting traffic to your site is the toughest job for a webmaster.
Traffic coming to your site needs to come from somewhere. There is very little probability that somebody, unknowingly, will directly type in your site’s domain name and reach to your site.
Some sources we will discuss in detail in the following chapters:
1. Search engines
2. Mouth to mouth advertising
3. Social networking
4. Blog commenting
5. Forum postings, etc.
Don’t think too hard, you’ll be familiar with these terms by the end of the tutorials.
Optimizing your site involves matching the current standards of the web. Making it compatible to various browsers, search engines, etc. And this what’s gonna help you build traffic.
Detailed info of all the topics will be in the upcoming chapters.
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This chapter will make you familiar with a few terms which constitute the basic knowledge required for creating or getting started with websites.
Part 1 will include the discussion about the following terms:
1. Web Hosting
2. Domains
3. Web Pages
4. Scripting languages
What is meant by web hosting?
Web hosting allows you to make your site available to anyone using internet. Your website can’t accessed without being hosted on a web server.
1. Free Hosting – Hosting on a shared server(i.e. many sites on one server) with all the basic features. This is what you should prefer when starting.
2. Paid Hosting
1. Shared Hosting – Similar to free hosting but may have advanced features.
2. Dedicated Server – A server dedicated to your sites, you get a server on lease and you may use it to your own wish but under some conditions.
3. VPS (Virtual Private Server) – Its like a virtual dedicated server on a big server.
We’ll discuss about “how to use” in the following chapters.
Domain names are a specific identity or address to your website. How do they work? We’ll discuss this in the following chapters.
It is a document which is suitable for the internet can be accessed through a web browser when hosted on a web server. They are generally created using html and css.
These kind of languages are used to add functionality to web page. They help you create dynamic sites.
Using only html would create sites which will be static, ie. there will be no changes in your web page unless you do them manually. When dealing with dynamic sites, you can modify pages or part of pages using a scripting language in a single click. You see tags plugin in the sidebar of this site, it updates as soon as I post an article.
Hope you got what dynamic means.
You should have seen some web sites which allow to register, login , logout, etc. and that is what I mean by functionality.
Continued in Part 2 . . . . . . .
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