Free Website Development Tools
Nov 30, 2008 Hosting, Website Development
Today I wanted to provide a few free website tools in our Free Resources page that would allow you to create a website without knowing any programming. I scraped up some nice websites that you can use to create these tools with little effort.
Not only are you going to setup a free website, but some of these sites also provide free hosting. That means zero, nada, zilch coming out of your pocket.
There are so many websites out there providing these services that it’s hard to filter out most of them. I only chose a few of these by the first few that came up on the search engines. I’m not saying they are the best or that I recommend them. I’m simply trying to help some of you who don’t want to go through the effort of learning how to program a website.
Check them out and let me know what you think.
Also, don’t forget to sign up to win your FREE copy of Seth Godin’s book, “Tribes.” We actually have two copies and will be selecting two lucky winners in the next couple of weeks.
Tags: Build a free website, CSS programming, free hosting, Rounded Corners
Signing up with an Internet Service Provider
Sep 18, 2008 Hosting
Signing up for an Internet service provider (ISP) is the equivalent to renting space in a storage locker. When you register your domain name from a registry service, like GoDaddy, you’ll need to house your website somewhere. That’s where ISP’s come to play.
I particularly like Bluehost as my ISP because they have far more features than most hosting companies. You don’t need to be programmer or very computer savvy to use most of the features they provide. They have features like unlimited storage. That’s a huge deal when you have multiple domains being used under that account. Speaking of multiple domains, they allow you to register an unlimited amount of domains within your shared account. Most other ISP’s will make you sign up for a new account for every domain name you want to host there. With Bluehost, you can host as many as you want for that one price. Therefore, if you selected your top niche and hosted with Bluehost, it wouldn’t cost you any additional hosting fees to create other websites for your added niches. Having multiple websites on the same account may be a fear for many due to extra fees hosting companies charge for the excessive traffic. Well, no charge, unlimited data transfer as well.
There are many more features, but the one I like the best is cPanel which is short for Control Panel. Within cPanel, they have two features called Fantastico and SimpleScripts. They both do the same thing. They allow you to create things like a blog or a forum with the push of a button. You then, simply, provide a user name, password and an email account and you’re done. You don’t need to hire a programmer to install a blog or forum for your website.
I used that same feature for this site and decided to make my main page into a blog. I’ll explain why in a future post.
By default, when you register with GoDaddy, they become your hosting service. In the next post I’ll discuss how to transfer your registered domain name from there to Bluehost or to another hosting company you may choose.
Tags: Hosting, Register Domain
