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Creating your own website still involves a great many steps, even if the lion’s share of the work is carried out by a qualified web developer on a contract basis, as in such cases you still need to be familiar with the key steps required to do so.
We have therefore highlighted below the key elements without which it is impossible to create a website.
The whole process begins with domain registration
Let’s say we have very specific ideas about the design of our future website, and we know exactly what we want to see on it in terms of both functionality and content.
This is essential for choosing the right domain name for ourselves. A domain is simply the address of our future website, which makes the content found there – or the services we provide – accessible to visitors via a web browser.
Choosing the right domain name is essential for a website to be successful, as it can help strengthen your brand, support search engine optimisation and, moreover, serve as an immediate description or introduction to your site.
No website without web hosting registration
However, simply purchasing a domain name does not in itself mean that you have your own website. It merely provides the means for anyone to access, via that particular address, the web hosting account where the website’s content will be stored in future.
That is why it is very important to choose carefully, as selecting the right web hosting provider can go a long way towards ensuring the success of our website, which, in the long run, will naturally have a positive impact on the popularity and marketability of our own business or venture.
Registering for web hosting is very straightforward: you simply need to choose the provider that suits you best, fill in the relevant form on their website, and as soon as you’ve paid the first instalment, you can take control of your account straight away – usually via a graphical control panel known as cPanel.
When it comes to this process, it is not so much the registration of web hosting as the selection of the right provider that presents the greatest difficulty. Many people focus solely on how much storage space they get for their money, when in fact there are far more important features that should be prioritised.
Examples of this include security considerations or the range of email services offered by a particular hosting provider – which is particularly important for business correspondence – but a free SSL certificate, for instance, is also one of many factors that it wouldn’t hurt to have automatically included with registration.
It’s best to be able to register a domain and web hosting at the same time
Nowadays, more and more providers are offering so-called comprehensive solutions. We can save a great deal of time, and often money too, for example, when we can register both the domain and the web hosting at the same time and in one place.
What’s more, this isn’t a disadvantage from the point of view that the two are automatically linked at this stage, so we don’t have to take care of the process ourselves – something that might cause a bit of a headache for less experienced users.