How to make Internet website

Building a website used to take a lot of effort and technical skills. Now, even a computer newbie can set up a webpage easily. Below are some useful resources for getting started.


----- Explainations -----

- The Basics of a Website
- What is a domain vs. a subdomain


----- Useful Services -----

- Domain Names GoDaddy

Most computer newbiews make the mistake of buying a domain name through their web host. Not only will it cost much more, but the web host may also hold the domain name "hostage", making it difficult to transfer to another hosting company.

Wiser users use an independent domain name reseller. GoDaddy provides domain names at only US$9.10 (SGD$12.70) per year. If you buy a .info domain name, you can pay even lesser.


- Email & Web Hosting - Google Apps

If you want to have 100 free email accounts with 6GB of storage each, superb spam protection, free web hosting etc, check out Google Apps. This can put a lot of web hosting companies out of business.


- Blogging Service: Blogger

If you do not want to go through the trouble of designing and maintaining a website just to post some thoughts, you can use a blogging service.


- Discussion Groups (Google Groups)

You can also start your own discussion groups and newsletters.


- Hosting Videos - Google Videos

You can use Google Videos to host your video files. Unlike its popular cousin YouTube, you can post video files longer than 15 minutes and retain their copyrights.


- Hosting Large Files - MediaFire

MediaFire hosts files as large as 100MB for free. Registration is optional. You can embed the files on your website as if you are hosting it.


----- Internet Marketing -----

- What is Internet Marketing?

If you do not know how to do marketing on the Internet, read this first.


- Advertising

You can earn money from putting advertisements on your website, or start your own advertisement campaign.





- Google Zeitgeist

This is a good starting place to know what people are interested in, so that you can make advertisements, websites and blogs to take advantage of the market trend.


- Google Trends

If you want to know what to call your website, product or service, you can try this free service from Google. You can input a few possible names and pick the most popular terms.