Website Tips: How to Build a Website
Getting Started
Picking a good site name is very important when building a site. Your site name needs to be cute and creative. Something like "Great-Times" or "PrettyWalls" is not a very good site name. When coming up with names you should try thinking about yourself. Try coming up with something that relates to you. You can also try thinking of two different words and put them together. I thought of "Cloud" and "Kisses" and it came together as CloudKisses.The "-" known as the hyphen is way overrated. I say don't use it. It's really not needed. It just makes the URL longer and harder to remember. I would just say to bag it. Never and I mean never include numbers in your site name. It makes it hard to remember and looks tacky. Example: 5targ1rl21. Never use symbols either. Example: $$moneyhoney$$.
Now that you have a site name you can put it to use by making your site. You need a host. I would suggest Webs for beginners. You can also get hosted by domains who are providing it but you must know FTP for that.
FTP
*Must have knowledge of HTML to use FTP.Using FTP is a little different from FreeWebs. It is just as easy though. First you will need to make a file in NotePad and name it index.htm or index.php depending if you are using PHP or HTM. Make sure you don't save it as a txt document or it won't work correctly. In order for your pages to show your host should tell you about an FTP program you can use. You can use an online one or a downloadable one. I use a cPanel one but in this I will be showing you an online FTP account.
An example of one is net2ftp. Your ftp server will be ftp.yourhostname. Your host should give you all of this information. Your username is yoursitename@yourhostname. Password is the password that you chose when applying for hosting. That's all you need to put in and now you should be in your ftp server. There should be an upload button that you can see to upload your files. Now your pages should show up fine.
