This is a how to page to get your name on your website. Everyone wants their own website don't they? Do you have yours yet? I have mine! Of course perhaps what you need is a website for your organization. A company or organization without their own website is lost in the world. How will people find you? You need something to put on those business cards. A website is a place for people to go and find out more information about you; what you do your goals, how to contact you, how to make recommendation, how to use you, your products or your services. The best thing about getting your own website is its really easy. There are plenty of companies willing to take the hard steps for you, or for the right amount of money, all the steps for you. Hell, I'll do it, but I'm old school, you probably want some rediculous slick and somewhat annoying flash animations that go bling bling all over the place. I'm not so much a fan of that stuff. But anyway, here you go with the first step:

Domains at Yahoo!

Yahoo Small Business has a service to setup domains and names for your website. You can't go wrong with setting up your domains at yahoo.

website name yahoo is just one great place to do it. I've used godaddy.com, I believe it's cheaper than yahoo.com but it may be more complicated. Overall though, I'm satisfied with the experience. The most expensive, and most complicated, that I know of is internic.com, the grand daddy of domains. Avoid them like the plague.

After you've setup your domains at yahoo or elsewhere you need some place to put your site! Yahoo.com may just be an all in one solution for you. They host as well as do the domain names. There are free options, that will put some ads that you don't conrtol on your site in exhange for free hosting. There are also things inbetween that don't cost much. A popular option is to use a "virtual" hosting location, where basically you pay not so much a month to be able to do pretty much whatever you need, and you get a directory on some server. This works well for most people. You even get mail accounts usually. The next option is to get your own server. This gives you complete control over the setup of your site and controls, the protocols it can handle, mail settings and everthing else. The big problem with this is you need someone who knows how to setup and administer the server. The great thing is you can get anormous amounts of storage, bandwidth (often unlimited) and whatever else. You can even choose what operating system runs the server. Now you don't have to go out and buy actual machine and plop it on your desk. In fact, unless you have some fat internet cabling running into your building you don't want to do that. You can rent a server from someplace like ev1servers.net. They take care of the bandwidth and you just pay a monthly fee.

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