Having Your Presence Online

Are you just confined to creating e-mail addresses, orkutting and other such friend groups. Well then read on to get your own web space for free where you can launch your personal website.

The world wide web basically began as a means to share research data, but now it has become an integral part of how we work, play and shop today. Today there are millions of sites running on the www, so why not you be the one. Here are a certain steps that will help you open up your own website.

Choosing a Free Web Host

1. Advertising: Most free web hosts impose advertising on your website. This is done to cover the costs of providing your site the free web space and associated services. Some hosts require you to place a banner on your pages, others display a window that pops up everytime a page on your site loads, while still others impose an advertising frame on your site. Whichever method is used, check that you're comfortable with the method.
2. Amount of web space: Does the host provide enough space for your needs. Most sites use less than 5MB of web space. Your needs will vary, depending on how many pictures your pages use, whether you need sound files, video clips etc.

Choosing a Good website extension (com, org, net, etc)

One common question people face is which domain name extension to use. The answer is not as straightforward as you might think. If your website or business caters to the local community, such as a free home delivery restaurant then it makes sense to get a country-specific domain. You actually benefit from having such a local domain because the people in your country know that they're dealing with a local entity. ".org" extension actually describes the non-profit nature of their organisation.
Similarly “.com” describes a commercial website, “.net “ for networking, etc.
So you can choose your websites extension as desired.

List of Free website hosts
1. http://www.freewebsites.com/ : Using this host you can get a free domain name and webspace . This host provides a domain name of the type “yourname.freewebsites.com”. It provides a webspace of 50 MB and unlimited e-mail ID.
2. http://www.freewebhosts.com/

Uploading your website
Uploading refers to the process of putting your websites content on the web server. A number of software are available on the net for uploading a website like
Smart ftp,cute ftp,etc. Also you can directly upload the file by opening the extension ftp://www.domainname.com/ in the internet explorer. This will open your home folder on the web server. Then simply drag and drop your files on this folder to upload your files.

Now you are done with the process of uploading and your website is ready to run, so just open the internet explorer, type your domain name and see your website on the world wide web.