Free STUFF!

After looking around for a little while I stumbled upon this nifty tool, its called a bad link checker. Made by Bad Neighborhood it allows you to see which links on your website are functioning properly. This is a very important tool and allows any amateur website creator to quickly check to see the status of their website. Dead links are horrible and this simple free tool can put you on your way to eradicating them forever.

Web Hosting and Publishing

Web hosting is what makes the internet what it is today. Web hosting is a type of internet hosting system, it allows the average person to make there own website. This is possible by purchasing server space from a web hosting company such as iPage, FatCow, And startlogic. After you purchase web space you then have to publish your website, which is getting it up and running. After all of this is over you should have a new place on the internet to advertise your goods, or speak your ideals. Either way web hosting and publishing is the only way to get yourself out there, it is unavoidable and necessary. This of course can be avoided if you feel like shelling out thousands of dollars on a server to run your website on, but the low prices (normally around $4-5 dollars a month) are normally bearable.

Domain Names?

Domain Names are your title in the internet. its the first impression of your website, because it is the only thing anyone is going to see before they get there. A domain name consists of your page name which is the first part of Nicota.com and then the second part is your domain, normally this would be a TLD (Top-Level Domain) such as .com .org and .net. Or it could be a ccTLD (Country Code Top-Level Domain) if you had access to one, since they are normally reserved by country websites.

In order to have a website you must have some form of domain name, there are some which cost you nothing, but if you want something simple and easily accessible you are going to have to pay some money. Some of the must popular places to purchase domain names are GoDaddy, networksolutions, and active domain.