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Your website is your online id which gives your customers an overview of your company . If you are a manufacturer or supplier who gets frequent requests from customers for your products photos/pictures/catalogs, you can request them to visit your website instead of sending photos thru email every time. Since internet costs have fallen drastically, you can build a basic website for less than than US$30 / Indian Rs 1200 a year. Website design is simple and you can set up your own website in less than a day. You do not have to spend on an expensive web designer and can update the information whenever you want
Check the websites of your competitors in your field to get an idea of the content that your customers are looking for .
Initially you can start with a free web hosting service provided by your ISP or yahoo geocities. Many ISPs provide 1 MB web space free along with their dialup package. You will get an idea about the number of visitors per month (bandwidth), web space required . However the free space provided may not be adequate and you may also have to display ads
Use any free HTML software to design your website. Standard templates are available or you can copy/paste pages and edit details. Minimize your picture/photo size, since most people have a 56K dialup connection
After you have decided on the web space /bandwidth , select your website domain name. The domain name should be relevant to your company & product for better recall value. Consider at least 3-4 domain names. You can check if your domain name is available at Who is
Usually the company hosting your website , is a reseller for a domain name registrar. Charges for domain name registration vary from US$6.5 (for resellers) to US$35/ per year by Network Solutions depending on the features offered. Since ICANN charges domain registrars US$ 6, any company offering a lower price will be adding this cost to other services offered by them. It is preferable to buy a web hosting /domain registration package from a company located in your city/town.
Ensure that you are the registrant, admin , technical & billing contact for the domain name. If you wish to change your domain registrar after a year, it is important that you are the legal owner of the domain name, not the reseller
For simple text based sites, Linux web hosting is adequate, but Windows hosting may be used depending on applications. Linux hosting costs vary and are about US$13/Rs 600 for 10 MB per year. If most of your customers are from a particular country, a server located in that country will give them faster response.
Your web hosting company will provide you the server name, login name and password for FTP. You can transfer your files to your website using any of FTP transfer tools like FTP commander
Keep your website simple and provide maximum product & company information. If your web page takes too long to load, your customer may rather visit a competitor for the product info he is looking for!
Submit your website to search engines.
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