Things you need to know in order to start a Website!

Well, if you want to start a free website, then this article is not for you. You can make free websites/blogs through many sites that provide free web hosting and domain to you. These sites include, the Google's blogger.com, wix.com, webs.com, etc. The disadvantage of make free websites is that they will actually provide a sub-domain to you, which will will working under their domain.For example, www.mywebsite.blogspot.com or, www.webs.com/mywebsite, instead of giving you your own independent domain (www.mywebsite.com). Well, you can buy your own custom domains from them, but still it would cost you more. The other disadvantage is that, these sites will be hosting your website server, and they have full rights of shutting down the website. So, WHY NOT HOST YOUR WEBSITE THROUGH WEBHOSTING COMPANIES like bluehost.com or hostgator.com.


1) Getting  a Domain, and Web-hosting:
Now, domains are very cheap, and they will cost you about $10-$13/year. Hostgator.com gives you a custom domain for $12.95/year. This is not a lot! They provide web-hosting in different packages, and their average rate is about $7.95/month. Yes, web-hosting is $7.95 per MONTH. There are many other websites, which can give you good offers during certain time periods. Currently, Bluehost.com is offering the cheapest webhosting for only $4.95/MONTH and they are also giving a free domain, it means that you don't have to pay an extra $12/year for domain. That's a pretty good deal. So, let talk how we can get web-hosting and domain from bluehost.com:

• First, go to Bluehost.com .

• Click on Sign Up to get signed up with bluehost.com
• Choose whatever package suits you; if you are a beginner, I recommend choosing the $4.95/month plan.
• After this you'll be asked to choose your domain.
• Lastly, when to pay, they will provide you with all the details about your website. You'll be given access inside your website, to edit and post stuff.
• Now, all you have to do is download a website designing software like WordPress to design your website; this leads us to step 2.

2) Downloading WordPress and designing website:

Now that you have your own website with a custom domain, and a company that is providing web-hosting for you, you can start setting up and editing your website. In order to do that follow the steps:

• Note: don't go to wordpress.com and download WordPress, you need to link WordPress to your website and in order to do that you have to download WordPress from your website account. 
• You will be provided by a username and password from bluehost.com to access your website's managing page, here you will be asked to download WordPress, and this will automatically link WordPress to your website. Note: Installing and signing up for WordPress is completely FREE. 
• After, you install WordPress on your website, you will be emailed with a WordPress username and password, which you can use to access your WordPress account. 
• You are good to go, as you have a custom domain, a web-hosting company and a software to design websites.

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