How do you create a website with out using sites such as free-webs & such?

Question

My friend & I are interested in started a small business and we'd like to create a website but we DO not want to use sites such as free webs.

We want our own url. please help, how do we go about doing this?

Answer 1

Last Saturday's Wall Street Journal had a section on this exact subject. You go to godaddy.com (not my website) and start your new business. You can be open in 48 hours.  How brave are you. /

Answer 2

You can either buy the software that does it, or you can recruit someone like my partner and i to build it for you, who have the software, knowledge, and design background to do it for you. Be careful though, some web designers/identity builders wont listen to what your ideas are and will make something you may not like. If you want to talk to me further about what I do, you can email me. I'm a photographer as well, so i have a lot of design in my background. I also built my own site, which you are welcome to explore, and was commisioned to build one while i was in Germany a few months ago. the links are www.shanistudios.com and www.safebox-selfstorage.de  

  

Answer 3

To make a website you need a domain and webhosting.The best way to buy a domain for free is to purchase your domain and webhosting together. In this way it is possible to get your domain for free. Some webhosting companies offer this as a gift .Bluehost is the best one

http://www.bluehost.com/track/bluehostwe...

Answer 4

A great way to build a professional website is to use Microsoft Office Live Small Business, a free service  - http://tinyurl.com/olsbfree . It has a free design tool that allows you to create web pages without coding. It has 500mb of web space and no ads. Currently, MS is offering a free domain for the first year.

Answer 5

Hi, great questions...

Some of the answers here previous to me were spot on. You really want to get your own domain name for starters, and then go from there. Domain names are about $9 a year, so it's worthwhile. Plus it's your 'mini brand' too, and kinda inspiring. So think first about simple domain names you could use, then check availability. Maybe even grab your own name too. I use namesecure.com for my domains but you could use anyone really.

So grab the domain name first. It's low cost and absolutely essential to being seen as professional online. People have to trust you before they do business with you, so not using a free domain is a good idea. :)

Then you can use any free website templates, or a blog such as wordpress.org to get started. You could even try out these guys:

http://hurleypix.com/fmw

They give you a free monthly website every month and you can use it to create your own site, create a Google Adsense site, modify the template, etc etc. However you might want to go with the blog. Having your own domain allows you to use any of these... The key is to grab the domain now...

Other options are creating your own site from the ground up - using a html tool like KompoZer, or using another all in one complete site tool called Site Build It. That's worth checking out too. You can see it here:

http://www.sitesell.com/ideal3.html

I use a SBi site and have had fantastic results.

Anyway hope that helps - any other questions you have just ask.

Thanks :)

Martin