Starting a website of your own from scratch without any previous experience can leave you wondering, “Where do I begin?”

With an information overload, so much to learn and so little time available that I thought why not give you a step by step amateur’s guide to walk you through it all. For a website used by business’s, bloggers, collectors, support groups and numerous other people that show case’s their special interests and ideas. Your Newbies A to Z Guide to building your own website.

1. Get your Domain Name or URL

Your first step to your own unique site. This is the name that you choose to be registered, given to your site. Think of a short catchy name that will be relevant, will be easily spelt and remembered. Now you need to go to a registrar site such as www.Godaddy.com and check to see if that name is available.

They offer a free search on that name and give a list of all other possible variations to choose from. Go for a .com or something like .co.uk type name. These are always the best. You don’t want your prospects going to the wrong web address by going to .com when your site is called .org for instance  This name now needs to be registered to you and an annual fee paid for the right to use it. This is just the front end of your website.

2. Choose a Web Host to become a Home for Your Website.

Web Hosts are companies that have computers connected to the Internet on a continuous base’s. They offer various services such as a WordPress account, email address and Cpanel area to upload your web page’s, manage them from. This is where your website becomes visible to the world and anyone can come and view your information on offer.

The Web host that I recommend and use, is Hostgator.com.  Go there and sign up for an account to house your website/s. You can host as many domain names at no extra cost. This means all your different niches and campaigns can be managed through one account for not a cent extra. Have access to free website tools such as Fantastico and WordPress to build your site and have a cpanel to manage your websites with:  Hostgator.com

3. Transfer Your Domain Name From the Registrar Godaddy to Your Hosting Site i.e. Hostgator.

4. Decide on What Kind of Website You Want…

As a beginner your next step now is to build your website. You can go for the easy WordPress blog style website such as this one or you have other options like using your own creation of your design, to choosing templates from www.freewebtemplates.com or www.templatemonster.com and building on that. I have not used these sites so don’t know what they are like?. Depending on the choice of method in building your site, different courses will follow.

A.  WordPress Blog. Inside Hostgator/your website Cpanel or “control panel” go to Fantastico and choose WordPress. You can follow video tutorials in setting up your site from there.

B. Template Style Sites. Down load the template of your choice to your computer. You now need a HTML web editor to edit with. Dreamweaver is a program editor that you can buy or you can use a free one called NVU. A quick search found this site http://www.net2.com/nvu/ offering a free down load. This editor is what you will use to design and update your website with.

5. Hostgator now offers you a Free Web Disc Account.

The Web Disk allows you to easily drag and drop files to your hosting account from your computer. You can create a Web Disk log-in and access your Web Disk from there. Once your Web Disk is configured, you can then drag and drop files to it just like they are part of your home computer. You can also navigate through the files in your hosting account just as you do the files on your local computer.

To help you set up your own website and learn more advanced web design methods, a membership site I recommend is the one that helped me get this one going. Your first months newbie membership club membership cost I think is $1. Try it out and see how easy it is to follow step by simple step video instruction. If you do not like what you see- cancel your subscription.      

If you are any thing like me there is so much to learn you will get stuck in, to never look back at your business growth. Newbie Membership Club.

“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” ~Winston Churchill

Incorrect action is better than no action. Take heart.