Building Your Own Website, page 2, hosting (go back)

Doteasy: Once done with your website building, make good use
of this free resource! This is a very reliable hosting company with excellent email support and they offer paid as well as free accounts. The reason I'm mentioning them is because their free hosting is an outstanding deal. Unlike most free providers, you don't get any banner ads or pop-ups with their free service. 
It can be used for so many things, such as: Hosting your sales pages, redirect pages or any other web page that you don't want hosted at your main website. Truly rare and uncommon value!

Disclaimer: If you are setting up your Main Business Website, don't use their free service because it won't include any of the scripting support you'll need. On the other hand, the free service is very desirable to host any of your websites that don't need scripting support, such as personal sites or a satellite website where the  sales link points back to your main business website.

Lunarpages: This hosting provider has an excellent track record and a very good reputation for customer service. You hardly ever hear a complaint about them. They offer a 30 day money back guarantee. Speedy response from their technical department for all your needs. They also own their own backbone datacenter as opposed to some other hosting providers; great hosting for your
first website building adventure!

Website Building Tutorials and Resources:

Freebies For Websites:  You will find some awesome freebies
for websites / webmasters  here, such as: free HTML templates, ebooks, webmaster tools, buttons, dividers, plus many more freebies.  J. Walfield, Webmaster of Freebiesforwebsites, has contributed an article about starting your own Membership Site, located in the Articles section. Be sure to read it!

SoMuch.com, place your website in this directory and gain extra exposure! Why? Because you can never have too much!

Network-Room Links, join this Directory and get relevant exposure!

Learnem.com, get your free html course "Web Design in 7Days." They also sell many other type of tutorials. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and you'll see the free course.

W3Schools, sometimes the best things in life are free. An excellent resource for anything to do with website building. Well written high quality manuals for beginners as well as advanced studies. We're talking about high quality instruction! I'm personally awed by this incredible resource for website building! Why they don't charge for this, I don't know. Get it while it's still free!

HTML Goodies, Another great place to get all kinds of tutorials about building your website. Very well written and easy to understand. Covers many topics only found in the advanced paid HTML manuals. Look at the site and you'll agree!

HTML Editors:

There are two editors that mostly dominate the market: MS Office Front Page and Macromedia's Dreamweaver.
They are both first class html editors. The preference seems to be a matter of personal taste and familiarity; you can't go wrong with either when building your site!

I use Front Page because it came bundled with my MS Office Suite however, I've heard nothing but good things about Dreamweaver. The ease of use of both the above editors is one of their strongest points. They can do so many things, a true bargain for the money.

Should you need a free or time limited demo to get started, go to Download.com and get one of the free or demo editors.

CoffeeCup HTML Editor is a good choice for beginners. Though lacking some of the refinements of the full fledged editors above, it's still a good compromise on features VS cost. A real bargain for designing your first website!

Scripts:

If you are serious about website building for business, you will need a script or two. Scripts are small snippets of code that do specific functions on your website. For example, you can have a script execute when a visitor comes to your website for the first time
and offer a free email course for signing up for your Newsletter.

 Scripts come in many forms, the ones most widely used for website building are Javascript and CGI scripts. There are many free script websites that will give you the code to install while building your site. The important thing to remember is to make
sure your hosting provider offers scripting support.

There is solid evidence that if you have good scripting at your website, you will capture more customers for your mailing lists.
The previous stands to reason; you should take every opportunity available to gather all the information you can within the brief moments your customer is at your website. Make sure you have scripting support before you start building!


Related Items in the Newbie Business Guide Articles Section:

Why You Should Learn HTML                           
Fonts For Your Website - Just a Matter of Style?     
Colors For Your Website: What's The Big Deal?         
Free Hosting, A Real Bargain?                                
Business Guide For Very New Internet Entrepreneurs   
Finding a Home for Your Internet Enterprise             
Buy a Turnkey Website or Build it Yourself?
How To Use Scripts
Design Tips for Newbie Webmasters 
   

Resources for website building scripts:

http://www.free-scripts.net, all the free scripts you need.
http://www.freescripts.com, more free scripts.
http://www.javascript.com, how would you like your Java?
Matt's Script Archive, neat website for your scripting needs.

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