Website Planning By Alvin Tse

How Websites Work

How It Really Works

First Things First Choose a name Choose a Top Level Domain (TLD) –.com –.net –.org –.info –.biz – other

Who is this? Finding out if the domain name is taken – Just type it into the browser – Go to or

Housing In-house hosting – Do it yourself – Have ownership Hosting sites – No guess work (well, maybe some) – Availability

DIY Pros – You control the installation – Dedicated Cons – You control the installation – Resources – Availability – Security

Out Sourcing Pros – Systems are built for this sort of thing – Availability – Security – Free – Templates Cons – You are limited to what they have available – Costly – Shared

Decisions, Decisions What am I looking for this website to do – Just the facts Ma’am – Media – E-Commerce

Made Content Management Systems (CMS) – Drupal – Joomla – Wordpress – Dotnetnuke

Techies Unite HTML/CSS – Asp.net – PHP – FLASH – JAVA –

Where Is Waldo? Search engines – Google – Bing – Yahoo

Hosting Sites Godaddy – Yahoo – Hostway – Hosting –