Making Your Own Website

[pb100191]

I know there are tons of websites which provide free "Websites" like Piczo etc, but how do I get a proper website, where I can have a url such as www.HighAndLow.com etc ?

[squarebear]

I use http://www.123reg.co.uk for my website names and webspace and have always found them very reasonable and reliable.

[Gromit]

In the UK you must register and pay for your domain name here.

http://www.nic.uk/

Once you have a name, you must find an IP or company to host your site. The Host will point your address to your website and the public can then view your site.

[vehelpfulguy]

Most companies who host your site will also provide an option to register your domain.

You can reigister a domain online via a web site without the need to talk to anyone.

Note that Gromit above gave the website of Nominet who are the governing body of UK domains, but I dont think you can actually create your domain on their site (anyway they only look after "uk" domains)

A couple of weeks ago I created a new uk site via the website at a hosting company called 1&1 (www.1&1.co.uk) on this page here:

http://order.1and1.co.uk/xml/order/Instant;jse ssionid=06898EA2C7A20C07F9D1C6BBA837CEB1.TC30a ?__frame=_top&__lf=Static

Note that it is more expensive to register a "com" domain than a "uk" domain. In fact the company I used above created my uk domain for free if I hosted the site with them.

[vehelpfulguy]

Note you can also use the web page above to check if a web site domain name has already been taken.

Not that "highandlow.com" has already been taken by somebody else.

[vesperalley]

I got my domain names from www.fasthost.com i just use the address to forward users to another website that is hosted through apple..

Basically all you need to do is use any site that will host your page, youll end uo with an address like www.example.com/123/hometown/direct/vesp.html which is really long etc etc

then you just log into your domain account at fasthost.com and click redirect then enter the really long address and save it. This will the redirect users to your free website but using a different name..

My site.
My site address is www.web.mac.com/vesperalley/iweb/welcome.com i bought www.adashofdaring.com for �8.00 and not when you go to a dash of daring it takes you too web.mac.com automatically and seamless... if you need more help just mail me

[legend758duo]

try easily .co.uk

�29 a year to host

and then pay to get added to google search

easy as fooikk to use

[pb100191]

Thanks so much for all your answers.

Ps...HighAndLow isn't what I was going to call it...It was an example. Sorry, I should have made it clearer.