The basic thing you need to start a website is you need a Domain Name and space for files. You can even get a Sub-Domain for free, provided by lots of websites online. One of them is googlepages.com The sudomain you get will be like yourname.googlepages.com or anyname.googlepages.com If you are trying to build website, I suggest to make a website first in some of the free sub-domain providing websites and then pay and buy domain and webhosting on the websites.

Well when you register on googlepages.com it is easy there to build website by the tools provided by the website. It makes very easy and you can get your small website ready within an hour. So this is free and you can make your web presense for free!

Now if you want to have your own domain name like .com, .in, .us, .net etc.. You have to purchase it from the Domain Name Providers. Just Google and you can find many of them online. Even Yahoo provides Domains and Hosting Space. Well almost all the websites provides Hosting space as well when you register for the Domain. You can choose the space you need for the website, Now a days unlimited space is being provided, just cross check once while registering. Approximate Price for a .com domain us aroung INR299 per year  and hosting space price of around INR500 per month. When you buy for 10 or more years at a time, you get much more discount from iweb.com You can pay online from your creditcard and get the website instantly activated.

Now you will have the logins for logging in the control panel of the website. You also get FTP ( File Transfer Protocol) facility with which you can upload the files, images, videos etc.. directly. Most of the hosting providers now a days give the facility of Site Builder software which doesn’t need any web designer, you can make the website your self.

One more way for making your website is by using some easy softwares. There are two software scripts which I feel are very easy to install on webserver and use it for making your own customized website. They are WordPress and Joomla. These are one of the most famous and most websites use this for their website. You can visit on the website and can download the latest version. How to use it, that is given in the help file itself. You can also join their Forums and question whatever you need help for Free. Also as these are open-source, they have many add-ons, which means you can easily make and add into your website. You can even get free templates for your websites or can order premium templates as well. These have so many add ons that you can create the website as you want, you can make community website, provide mail service, provide chat, forums, shopping etc.. So start making your website now. If need any help just google it or else email me!