How to Create a Website

Server Monitoring

Is the web hosting service that you are using adequate?  These
free tools will periodically check server response times and notify
you if your web server is slow or unavailable.

Internet Supervision

This tool will check the response time for your website from
various world cities including Chicago, Washington, Los Angeles,
Gloucester England, Santiago Chile and Sydney Australia.

Programming Guides

There are a number good programming guides available on the
internet which can assist you with HTML, CGI and other commonly used
programming languages.

Hypertext
Mark-up Language

This is an excellent HTML and XTML reference guide.

PHP Manual

Page Hit Trackers

Google Analytics

By inserting a few lines of code on each web page in your site, 
Google Analytics will produce a wealth of graphs and statistics
including unique hits, number of unique visitors, referring URLs and
referring search engines.

Yahoo! Analytics

Similar to Google Analytics, Yahoo Analytics provides useful
information about site visits.

Paid URL Submission

Some of the major internet search engines now charge fees to have
a website included in their directories.  Some require an annual fee
for each submitted page.   Other search engines charge based on the
number of clicks that are made to your website.  Three major paid
inclusion programs are offered by Excite, Kanoodle and Overture.

Yahoo

The search results from Yahoo are fed to a number of other large
search engines.

Free URL Submission

Much time and effort can be saved by using a website submission
service to add a URL to multiple search engines at one time.   There
are plenty of e-businesses which offer web page submission services
for a fee.   Although many of these firms promise to register your
site with hundreds of search engines, it is unlikely that you will
ever receive very many hits from the smaller search engines.

Paid Web Hosting

Rather than using a free web hosting service and being required
to display banner ads on each of your web pages, you can elect to
rent web server space from one of many web hosting firms.  Thousands
of businesses world-wide offer a variety of web services, and costs
vary significantly.  Before deciding on a web hosting service
provider, consider the following questions:

Free Web Hosting

Many companies offer free
web hosting
services. This includes free storage space on a web server,
basic tools to build a site, a free email address and other goodies.
Most hosting companies require that you display a banner at the top
of each of your pages.  Many also restrict you from using a
domain
name that you own or plan to purchase. If these constraints are
too restrictive for your requirements, consider purchasing
low cost

Competitor Searches

When developing a website, it's important to be aware of the
competition.  How are they attracting visitors?  What do you like or
dislike about their sites?

Marketleap

The Marketleap search engine tool compares the volumes of links to
your site with the volumes of links to the leading sites in more
than 30 industry categories.

Alexa

Domain Acquisition

The following web hosting companies provide domain names at
little or no cost, provided that you use their web hosting services:

-Bluehost.com
-Godaddy.com

Domain Name Searches

Checkdomain.com

Checkdomain.com is the place to go on the Internet to check to
see if a domain name is available for almost every country in the
world.

NameDroppers.com

Namedroppers.com provides a domain name search engine that allows
you to search for domain names using multiple keywords.

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