Be seen on the Internet

What else do you need besides Site Studio to get started and be seen with your own website on the Internet?

	Computer
	Internet connection
	Web host
	Domain
	Registration with a search engine

Computer

You need a computer that supports Microsoft Windows. It even works with Mac that for example run Virtual PC. Read more about system requirements here!

Internet connection

To publish your website on the Internet you need to contact your web host with some form of Internet connection such as a telephone line or Broadband. One tip is to read some of the various tests that are compiled regularly.

Web host

Web hosts provide web servers which can be compared to providing a parking space for your website. It is a space that becomes part of the Internet. Web hosts often include among other services, email addresses with the Internet connection, but there are also a number of independent web hosts. Therefore, Effective Studios recommends reading about some of the current web hosting reports (see Effective Studios web hosting partners). A web host typically costs ? Dollars and up per month depending on your needs and requirements. There are free web hosts, but they seldom offer the possibility of associating a specified domain name of your choosing with the website.

The size of your website, meaning disk space, can vary greatly. Your disk space requirements are directly proportional to the amount of high resolution pictures and documents your website contains; for example, PDF or PowerPoint files.

Domain

An Internet address is often included with your Internet or web hosting subscription free of charge, but at the expense of being fairly lengthy and complicated; for ex. www.mywebhost.com/8910201ssjf/. If you would like to be fairly reachable with a user-friendly address it is a good idea to buy a domain name of your choosing like "effectivestudios.com". You can do this most easily through one of the larger web hosts. A domain name starts at a few dollars and up per month depending on your choice of TLD like .com, .org, .biz, .info, etc.

To clarify some of the concepts surrounding this, a website address like "effectivestudios.com" can be described by the following:

IP-number (IP-address) is a unique number that renders possible computers communicating with each other on the Internet. Instead of a string of numbers, the address is often indicated as a string of text (see the above).

Search engine registration

A search engine like Google can find your website on the Internet and thereafter index its content but requires that you communicate to the search engine that your site exists. You can do this by registering your website at for example, Google or yahoo. After your website is registered is can take several weeks before the search engine indexes it.

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