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Setting up a Website – The Basics

This page contains some basic information on putting together a simple website – it’s designed to offer some guidance for people looking to get a few basic webpages online.

The basics

Creating a website may seem a little daunting, but getting the basics in place is not that painful. It’s a case of designing some basic pages, and uploading them to special storage areas on the Internet. Here’s what you need…

Some webspace

Many Internet providers include a webspace allowance as part of the
package, so if you already have an Internet account, you may find
you have what you need already. See our Broadband Advice pages if you’re looking for an Internet provider that will give you free space.

The free space may be adequate to get you started, but you’ll typically only get a small amount of space, no handy tools, and you’ll probably end up with an unsexy web address like www.btyahoo.co.uk/site/johnsmith.

If you’re looking to put together a decent site with a good web address, steer clear of free space from your Internet provider, and see later on this page for how to get a decent web presence.

Some pages

Web EasyYou
now need to create some pages of web content. There are quite
a range of website editing packages out there, and with quite
differing price ranges – two of the cheaper packages around are
Web
Easy
(around £25) and Namco
Web Editor
(around £55) which offer enough to get you
going. If you’re on a tight budget, you can just use Word (which
has a File > Save as web) option, although this solution isn’t
as flexible as a dedicated package.

Once you’ve
decided on how you’ll be making pages, start off with a basic
homepage, perhaps with a couple of images. Once you’ve created
a basic page, save it with the filename of index.html (the
standard name for a homepage)

A
way of uploading pages

The next step
is to upload this to your webspace, and for this you need something
called an FTP program. Many web editing packages come with this
built-in, making it easy. If you need an FTP package, one of the
better freebie applications is WS-FTP.
You need to use this to connect to your webspace (using the details
you got earlier), then copy the index.html file (plus any images)
to your web storage space.

Once you’ve done this, you should be live!

Need help? See our Get your first Web site section

 

Improving your site

The
next step is to improve upon your site, create more pages, and to add
content to the site. Take time to think about what you’d like to put
on your site, and do your research – perhaps looking at other sites
doing something similar to what you want to do.

There are thousands
of websites out there offering help on web design, so we’re not going
to go into too much detail here.

 

A better online presence

A
domain name

Domain names from names.co.ukSo
far, you’re running with free webspace and a fairly messy web
address. The next step is to look at registering a domain name
for your site. We’re currently recommending Names.co.uk as they offer cheap domain registration, and a range of other
services.

Pick yourself a domain name and then order it – you’ll be looking
at paying between £2 and £5 for a .co.uk web address. If you’ve got your website hosted on free webspace, , you can log on the site where you’ve bought your new domain name and point
the domain name to your existing free webspace – this is a called "domain
forwarding".

If you’re looking for the more professional option, you should consider hosting the
website on some non-free storage space – this gives you extras
like web statistics, more storage space, and control over your
emails. Again, Names.co.uk are worth a look. You then upload your web pages to the hosting company, and they look after your pages, providing you with tools to monitor and update your site. More on UK Hosting


As an alternative to Namesco, you could consider 1 & 1 Internet , who’ll sell you a low-price web domain names.

More info: See our Web Domains Explained page

Getting
noticed

Now you have
a site, you need to tell people about it, in whatever way best
suits your audience – you also want to make sure that your site
gets noticed by the search engines such as Google and Bing – this
way, people will be able to find you.

Some
of the ways to get noticed by the engines include:

  • Getting
    a link added to sites that are already in the search engine
    – email a few other sites (friends, colleagues, or related websites),
    and ask to get them to link over to your site. That way, next
    time the engines scan the other sites, they’ll find you and
    index you.
  • Fill in
    the ‘Add URL’ form on the search engines sites, to ask the engine
    to find you.

There are
a range of other tricks, including making good use of your meta
tag data, or taking out a Google Adwords campaign,but that’s a
little too advanced for this basis page to go into right now. If you’re looking for some information on how to get a new wesbite noticed, we’ve written some articles on this subject for the EssexMax Website Advice site

Making
money?
If you’re looking
to recoup your costs in setting up a site, you could consider running
some advertising on the site. This is a common practise these days,
and there’s some information on this at our sister site – see the
ConsumerDeals
Affiliate page

 

Handy Website Links

  • Internet Resources – Links to webpage tools, web design links, search engine submissions
    and counters

  • More information on UK Broadband Providers or dialup access providers.

  • If you’re
    looking for a basic website without the hassle, try Do
    your own
    for a 30 day free trial

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