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Here is a brief tutorial about
websites, domain names, and domains....read on!
Domains
are the web address for a website, also called the URL.
Names like godaddy.com, yahoo.com, google.com, rmco.net, are
all domains, or to be more precise, they are the domain names
for a domain, which is the website.
To have a website
you need to register the name you want for your website with a
Registar company, such as Godaddy.com, Network Solutions,
Hover.com and so on.
Then you need a hosting service
for your website. One of the above can host it, as well
as be the registar for the domain name or you can use another
service to host it. Mac's Web Services offers this.
Then, it is time to design and build the website.
This can be done, these days, with several of the "Templated"
kind of services where you can just select one of the
templates offered by some of the hosting services to use as
your design, and then use their system to edit it to have your
content on it. These can be pretty nice but are usually
limited as to the flexibility in contenct, arrangement and
control of the pages.
You can also go to the expense of
buying website software and design and build your own. This is
never as easy as it sounds, but it is an option.
The
alternative to this is to have a company like us to custom
design the site or even utilize a template but with the skills
to "make" the template do what you want it to do.
Most
of the time, money and cost is the deciding factor. But
there are a couple of things to keep in mind that are
important to consider.
1. How much will you be
depending on your website to bring you business?
2.
How will you know the necessary technology to make it all work
as it should?
3. Are you knowledgable about the "back
end" things needful for search engines to find you and post
you in their databases?
4. And the the big one.
Do you really have the time to invest in design, construction,
and especially maintaining the website to keep it current?
Before you decide on which way to go, why don't you just
give us a call and see what options we have available for you? |
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