How to Create a Website

Websites are an important part of e-commerce. They can be used to sell products, attract advertising dollars and express points of view. Being a webmaster takes some time and attention to the website you are designing. With dedication, it is possible to become a webmaster in as brief a time as 2 weeks.

Instructions
1
Learn about basic HTML. If you know how to create a few basic codes, you will be able to customize your website to suit your needs. You don't have to become a programmer, but you do need to know how basic HTML works so that you can correct any problems.

2
Find a host for your website. Being a webmaster means controlling an independent website. That requires hosting. Look for a hosting plan that delivers exactly the options you need rather than simply looking at the price of the plan. Most hosting companies give price breaks for long-term hosting.

Web Page Ranking

Internet tools are available to monitor the ranking of web pages
in the major search engines. Some ranking tools evaluate based on
specific queries.

Link popularity analysis is one of the best ways to quantifiably
and independently measure your website's online awareness and
overall visibility. Simply put, link popularity refers to the total
number of links or "votes" that a search engine has found for your
website.

LinkPopularity.com

Web Page Translators

Providing multilingual support on your website can be important. 
Tools are currently available on the internet to easily translate
English language web pages into foreign languages.  Although the
quality of the translation is imperfect, the tools can provide a good
first cut translation that can then be refined by a native speaker
of the language.

Yahoo's Babelfish

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