February 24, 2012

How to Build a website in 5 steps

Dominique Recommendations how to build a website, website building

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Creating your own website need not be a complex and mammoth task. It is not as complicated as it seems. Many of you may not know but I have been helping clients set up their own website for their business. Having a website is essential nowadays to extend a business reach to it’s potential clients. Many people nowadays do not have the time to physically go to a shop to browse for what they may need and prefer to do purchases online in the comfort of their homes.

How to build a website?

What should I do then?

Here are five steps which you can take to create your website.

Purchase and Register your Domain name.There are many different registrars available to register your chosen domain name. Eg: Name.com and GoDaddy.com are sites which you can visit to check if your chosen name is available or has been already taken by others. It is recommended that you select a name that is easy to spell or has relevance to the type of website you are looking to set up. A top level domain like a .com domain is recommended as most often people associate websites with a .com.
For this blog- Dominique’s Desk I have chosen to use my name Dominique Goh as the domain name as it represents me and is my name. Therefore you see as above the domain name used is http://dominiquegoh.com.
Set up your hosting
A web hosting is where you put your website/pages for view on the internet. Prices range from as low as $5/mth for shared hosting to $30/mth for a dedicated server. It is important for you to choose the right hosting company for your site. I personally had encountered problems with hosting companies before and it wasn’t easy to find a hosting company that will not bail on you or screw up your website as they have over stuffed their servers. If you are interested I’m hosting this blog at Oryon. Net
Connect your domain to your hosting companyIt is important to connect both together to get your domain up and running. You will need to point your domain to the name servers of the hosting company. It takes about 12-24 hours for the domain to be propagate from the domain register to the web host.
Plan your website design
You need to determine the type of site you would want to create. Do you need a static website with the company information, an e-commerce site with shopping cart features, a blog or all of the above? Once you have decided on what you need you can either use a ready made template or get one custom made by a web designer that meets your needs.
Publish and Promote your website
After the pages to your site has been created you will need to publish them to make your site “live”. Promotion through various social media outlets and setting up related accounts is also important to get your page “known” to the rest of the world.

Even after following these steps if you still find trouble setting up your websites you can hire me to assist you.

February 19, 2012

SOC: Enjoying the Multicolour Spectacular

Dominique Thoughts, Travel SOC: Stream of Conciousness, Taiwan, Travel

This week I have been busy uploading and going through all the photos/videos that we took last week while on vacations to Taiwan. It has been a difficult week getting back into momentum. It’s much more tiring dealing with 3 kids then just one.

Looking back at the colourful pictures of the lanterns that we saw last week really rejuvenates me. Colour really does have its wonders in perking one up and brightening up the day. I really like having colour sprinkled into my live and last week was really very colourful.

I’ve also been “colouring” up my blog here on Dominique’s Desk by adding in guest post from guest bloggers, doing product/book reviews and from next week onwards will add in giveaways as and when I’m able to. I’m looking to build this blog up to a higher level and hopefully hit my targets I have set for myself on this blog.