ou know a real estate Elements of a Website:
website will help you
market your services, To have a website live on the
educate your clients and Internet, you'll need three
prospects, and build business primary things:
relationships. You're ready to
get your site up and running. You A web host (like Dotster,
even have a picture in your head GoDaddy, or hundreds of others)
of what it should look like. A domain name (like
www.mysite.com)
There's one question... Web pages (HTML files to
structure the pages and style
How Do You Get Started? sheets to format them)
My advice at this point is to The Web Host:
slow down -- just a little bit.
The initial setup stage is where A web host is a company that
most folks make their biggest and provides web hosting services.
costliest mistakes. In their These companies own servers
excitement, they skip the (extremely powerful computers)
necessary research and sign on that host and "serve" the files
with a designer who can't deliver that make up their clients' web
exactly what they're after. pages.
Or they shell out $300 dollars or You can create a website on your
more for a real estate website computer. But you have to put the
template, only to realize later files onto a web server before
that the design can't support anybody can access them over the
their content plans. Internet.
A Hosting Example: a month. You get a little more
for the money at GoDaddy though,
When you visit Amazon.com, your at least in my experience.
computer requests files (via the
Internet) from a server. In this The Domain Name:
case, it's Amazon's own server.
Your computer will request HTML A domain name is simply the name
files, graphics, scripts and and address of a website. My
other items needed to view and domain, for example, is
use the home page at Amazon.com. www.ArmingYourFarming.com.
Hosting Providers: Getting a domain name is easy.
You just go to any domain
Web hosts are a dime a dozen. The registrar (like Register.com or
trick is to find one that's GoDaddy) to first see what's
reliable, easy to use, and with available. The registrar will
decent customer service. In web tell you if a particular domain
host standards, "decent customer is taken or available. When you
service" means you can actually find an available domain name
get somebody on the phone when that you want, you register it.
you have a problem. The cost to register a domain is
about $10 per year. More than
Web Host Recommendations: that, and you're overpaying.
I use and recommend GoDaddy Conclusion:
(www.GoDaddy.com). I've also had
good luck with Dotster Before spending any money on your
(www.Dotster.com) . A real estate website, educate
medium-sized hosting plan at one yourself. Read as much as you can
of these providers runs about $9 on the subject, and
comparison-shop between different
vendors. Determine your web * Copyright 2006, Brandon
goals, and make a list of Cornett. You may republish this
features you'll need to support article in its entirety, provided
those goals. Start small with you leave the byline, author's
only a basic plan -- you can note and website hyperlink
always add features later as you intact.
find the need for them.
About the Author:
Brandon Cornett has worked as a web writer and marketing manager for a direct mail company serving real estate agents since 1986. His "Agent's Guide to Web Marketing" and his free newsletter are available at: http://www.ArmingYourFarming.com. View Brandon's blog at: http://www.realestatemarketingtips.blogspot.com
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