You have purchased a domain name, and you have built your website, and now you need to put your pages online. You need web hosting. Consider hosting similar to this: have a book, and you want to put the book on a shelf, but you need to pay for space on that shelf to allow others to read that book. Hosting is the space you will pay for to have your site on the Internet, so others can see and use your web pages.

A domain name is your website name, the name of your business, your pages, and you online. A domain name is the address where people from around the country or around the world can access you site. Consider your domain name similar to that of your name. What do people call you, how do they address your mail to send you postal mail? A domain name is similar to the address and name in that respect. A domain name could be any combination of letters, and numbers, and then it will be used in combination of .com, .net, .biz and more so that readers can be directed to the correct domain name.

Your website name leads people to you, but you have to have a ‘place' where your website will be found. Similar to buying property for a home, you need to rent space on the Internet from a hosting provider for your website. Choosing a hosting provider can be easy when you research and read a little on the services provided.

You already have an email, but a personalize email that uses your domain name helps your business grow and makes those who are using your site more aware of the ease in contacting you personally or the business you are growing.

The pages of your web site are created to ‘do' things different, to make colors, to make sounds, and to make the person using your site see things as you want. Motions, colors, sounds, and interaction online is completed using PHP, ASP, Perl, CGI programs and more.

A database is useful in many ways. A database could be a price list, a listing of addresses, a listing of items you are selling, a listing of product numbers, or a listing of people attending a school. A database is a method of organizing information, which could be a small listing, or a very huge listing of information.

Creating a web site can be done in various ways. Editing and programming software, also known as web site building software is one of the easiest methods of building a web site. Additionally, programs such as Front page and Macromedia Dream weaver are available for create and building a web site.

The computers you use, and the Internet you use, are created using a different language compared to what you speak. HTML is a code, which tells the computer what to do, what to display and how to display it. For example, the color behind this writing could be white, blue or green, or even mixed - all as a result of the HTML code the page is written. The writing you see could be BIG, bold, or italic, again controlled by the HTML code.

The creation of your web pages is completed on your computer. Then, you must put those files you have created on the server where you have chosen to have your site hosted. The first step in doing this is to build your site, and then set up a user name and password for your site with a hosting provider.

To build a web site, or just one web page, you need the use of HTML language, scripts and other programming, but a website builder is going to take all the hard work out of creating and building a web site so you can build it yourself.