The ability to create your own website is a very empowering option for anyone who wants to share their work, their expertise, their products, or their creative expressions. I would like to follow up on this a bit more because I would like to see more creatives make their own websites. Here is a brief checklist of tasks that you would complete logistically for launching a website that you create yourself:
- Buy domain name for x number of years – usually in the format of www.[domain].com
- Buy hosting package for x number of years
Many companies that sell domains have partnerships with hosting companies or offer hosting themselves so you can usually do this when buying your domain - Write website code
- Upload website code files to hosting account file manager
- Disable domain or hosting company’s “parking page”
This allows the website you designed to be visible and turns off a “This domain is owned by [domain-selling company]” page when someone goes to your website
Now your website is accessible to anyone with internet access!
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