How to create a website?

[brannsiu]

Is getting a .COM or .NET and a hosting service for the website is the first thing to go?

Is it difficult to do so ? Any advice ?

Secondly, I have been hearing about SEO, what is it?

I don't necessary have to learn everything in the most fundamental levels, but I may want to have the conceptual ideas before paying for any service or anything. At least I have a general concept about what's happening.

 

[itmoba]

Rather than buying a .com domain and paying for hosting services, I suggest you begin by creating a local web-server and playing around with HTML/CSS/JavaScript. One way to create a local web-server is to create a VM that does most of the service work for you. If you don't know how to code, then, I suggest reading some tutorials or buying some books on writing webpages.

 

[Solandri]

You buy the .com or .net domain from a domain registrar. Godaddy is the biggest, the cheapest seemingly reliable one I've found is NameSilo. This is typically $6-$12/yr per domain.

You then pay for a hosting service which will serve your website to visitors. This typically costs $3-$15/mo. More if your site gets heavy traffic.

You then login to your registrar account, and change the DNS settings so it'll point to your hosting service (the hosting service will provide you with instructions on exactly what to change). Once this is done, people typing yourdomain.com in their web browser will be directed to your hosting service.

From this point, you have to make the actual website on the hosting service.

SEO is search engine optimization. On the legitimate side, it involves optimizing your website so it's search-engine friendly (properly formatted, includes keywords, etc) so it'll come up more often in searches. On the scummy side, it involves manipulating the search engines by creating false links back to your website to make it seem like it's popular, so the search engines will rank it higher.

 

[USAFRet]

Is getting a .COM or .NET and a hosting service for the website is the first thing to go?

Is it difficult to do so ? Any advice ?

Secondly, I have been hearing about SEO, what is it?

I don't necessary have to learn everything in the most fundamental levels, but I may want to have the conceptual ideas before paying for any service or anything. At least I have a general concept about what's happening.

First, what is the purpose of this website?

 

[jsmithepa]

Is getting a .COM or .NET and a hosting service for the website is the first thing to go?

Not necessarily. You can have a website without a domain, but domain makes it nicer, so if you already have a domain name you like in mind, go for it. If you will be hosting the site instead of giving it to a service provider, this would be a good time to also get a Dynamic DNS service from the same registral, would be convenient in one place.

Is it difficult to do so ? Any advice ?

You should be versed in tcp/ip for the networking part.

fundamentional level

When I just want to know the gist of it, I like the DUMMIES books series myself.