| Websites perform a vareity of functions
for us, from renewing your driver's license and paying your
taxes to online shopping or even just showing off your family
photos. Whatever the reason you want to create & post
a website or just a single webpage, you will need to do the
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- Registering a Domain Name
(such as silverstate55.com). This is also referred to as a
URL, and you will be required to pay for the privilege of
using this Domain Name for a set period of time.
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- Signing up for website hosting.
This is paying for the physical space your files will take
up on a company's server (just a big computer with LOTS of
file storage space), so the rest of the world can view your
website. Most companies offer reasonable monthly or quarterly
rates, and will bundle necessary software and add-ons for
an additional fee. SilverState55.com uses 1
& 1 Internet Inc. for all of our webhosting needs.
To make things easier for customers, most web hosting services
(including 1
& 1 Internet) allow you to register your domain name
and reserve your web hosting account together, and frequently
offer discounts if you register & reserve together.
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- Configure your FTP access. FTP
stands for File Transfer Protocol, and is a software program
that allows you to access & transfer files to your web
hosting server; all you are doing is transferring files (web
pages, graphics, and so on) from your computer to another,
so that others can view your web pages.
SilverState55.com can do this (and more) at no charge once
you contract
with us to design & implement your website.
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- Set up your new email address with
your domain name via your web hosting service. What this
means is that if you paid for a web hosting package that included
email addresses, you can now set up your new email accounts
related to your new website (such as info@mydomain.com or
orders@mynewwebsite.com). You can choose to have these emails
forwarded to an existing email address or set up a new mailbox
in your personal computer's email program (such as Outlook
or Eudora) to receive the mail generated from your website.
SilverState55.com can do this (and more) at no charge once
you contract
with us to design & implement your website. |
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| In order to not go too much in-depth on
these processes, and to avoid re-inventing the wheel (so to
speak), click on the links below for more in-depth explanations: |
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| Contact
SilverState55.com for a price quote |
