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Websitehouse.net shows you the track and some tools to create your own web site, focusing on the whole cycle of development, which means: domain name registration, web site design, website hosting, search engines indexation and some other relevant internet tips.

1. Domain Name Registration:

Domain name is the address for your website. See the definitions below, considering our domain name: websitehouse.net:
- URL (Uniform Resource Locator): http://www.websitehouse.net
- Second level domain name: websitehouse
- Top level domain or domain name extension: .net
- The top level domain is divided in generic, country code and restricted:
  - The most recognized generic top level domains are: .com, .net, .org, .biz, .info.
  - The country code domain names (alwaus two letters) are the extensions used by countries: .fr for France, .us for USA, .it for Italy, .br for Brazil, .mx for Mexico, .co for Colombia, etc.
  - The restricted top level domain names requires something from the registrant. .edu for educational entities, .mil for military use, etc.
You can registered your domain name with any ICANN acredited organization. ICANN - Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers- it is a not-for-profit corporation with participants from all over the world, formed in 1998, dedicated to keeping the Internet secure, stable, interoperable and global.

2. Web Site Development:

If you are really a begginer, you can start with some free website provider, like Blogger.com, or Wordpress.com, that helps you on the design, since they have templates already made. Also you will get web hosting at the same time. As long as you get experienced, you will probably need something more professional, like Microsoft Expression Web, with very good programming resources, or Adobe Dreamweaver
To get a nice and professional look, you will need to use some specific softwares to work with pictures, like PhotoPaint (image editor from Corel) or PhotoShop(image editor from Adobe).
You may need some Gifs or Photos to decorate your site: WebDeveloper, Free-Graphics, 1ClipArt.com, AllFreeClipArt.com, ImagePlace.net, and many others.
To add some special caracteristics, you can get some JavaScripts, Applets, ...: JavaScript Source (scripts cut and paste), Cut and Paste (the name says…), J avaFile (a lot of free scripts for download)
You may want to add some other sources, like polls, widgets, flashfiles: FlashClocks, Bravenet (many tools for your website), WidgetBox, Widgetop, StatCounter, and much more on the web.

3. Web Hosting:

After done your job, you need to launch it, which means, you need some hosting company that will maintain your site 24h linked to the web.
Some companies do this for free, as we have already mentioned on the topic about website development, but you have to live together their standard and look, or, in same cases, they may put banner-adds or pop-ups in your site. If you could spend $10 up to $20 /month you would take a professional look to your site, you may prefer to use a payed service. You can research some options through the search engines. Try using the following key-words: website, host, hosting, and low cost (if you want it).

4. Search Engines:

In the past, you had to index by yourself all the search websites you wanted to have your site listed, currently, the major search engines do this automaticaly, scanning the whole internet. It is considered important for the search ranking the content of your site and the relevance with the key words placed for search. Also, its important the number of sites that is pointing to yours, which means that your site is relevant.
The top five search engine websites now a days is: Google, search.Yahoo.com, Bing.com, Ask.com, and search.aol.com

5. Tips:

Learn some internet terms: Terms of Internet
Learn about your computer: Computer short cuts

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