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It is much easier than you think to create and maintain a website. You can pay for hosting and a domain name or you can try a number of self. Free hosts usually have their advertising on the page. Many computers have free online visual editors so that you do not need to know any programming language to create pages web and edit them. All you need to get started is Internet access and even this can have free access in places such as libraries in some parts of Australia.
Before choosing a host and subscribe to a website, you need to have an email account you can access. Their new website host usually sends validation email with a link you must click to activate your web space. Your password is often sent to this email. So if not have one, create one. There are many places you can get a free email. Try doing a search for the free email services.
Once you have your e-mail account you need to think about what you want your site to be called. Most free websites have the hostname in the URL of its new website. You can start with that and buy your own domain name later if you want to forward to their free hosted site.
You will need a user name and password to access your new web site space and to invent one that can remember and / or write somewhere.
However, is time to find a host for your website, but before doing here is some basic information to help you understand your website.
A website is composed Web pages (files). Each web page has a name. The first page must be named index.htm or index.html file because it is the first look of your browser when you type in the direction of your website. Each, or their pages usually have a link to this page, which is often called the home page. Together with its pages can taking some pictures. I usually create a folder in my pictures and call the image folder.
File names are written in lowercase, but if do it or not, the case is important. Links to files not found on the link if the case was wrong. File names for the site must not have spaces in them either. Sometimes people create their pages and save them to your first team then load in the web hosting space. If you double click on your web page usually opens in a browser window. It's easy to think that this page is online, since it seems as if it is, so if you're not sure, verify the address in the Address bar. If the address looks something like this, showing the drive and folder, then there is online. It's on your computer and you have to upload to your space online host: file: / / / C: / Documents and Settings / citwings / index.html. Upload files may be as simple as clicking an upload and / or navigation button on your site hosted Webshell / space / directory. Or you can upload using an FTP (File Transfer Protocol) program.
You can find demonstration movies and image based step by step tutorials at http://www.citwings.com/hosts.html which also lists a range of free web hosts that have been around for a trustworthy length of time.
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