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In this tutorial, I will begin to tell you how to build and manage a professional or personal website. In every well rounded website, their is a concept. The concept, or basic idea, is a must. You must know what your website is about. Once you have that, you should work on getting a well rounded hosting plan and a domain. To find such cheap hosting and domain prices, one can search www.google.com for WebHosting or Cheap Domains. After finding a good price for hosting and the domain, purchase it. If you can not purchase a domain, use a free domain service such as cjb.net or dot.tk. For free hosting, try www.netfirms.com or www.geocities.com. Now for the website making. If you have a hosting account with geocities or tripod, you may use their pagebuilder. I personally like to design my websites in a scripting language such as PHP or HTML. Added languages, such as CGI and JavaScript, can be used to enhance a website. If you are to design your own site, try getting a html website builder. I would go with CoffeeCup or Microsoft's FrontPage. Either would work out very nicely. Try searching google again for CGI or Java Scripts. These can be used to make your website more lively. Now after building your website, how will you put it on? Well, if using netfirms, the you would transfer your website through to a ftp server. Use your FTP Client (CuteFTP, etc) to transfer it. Apon signing up to netfirms, you will recieve and ftp username, address, and password. If for instance, your address is gloats.netfirms.com, you will upload by going into your browser, typing

ftp://www.gloats.netfirms.com

right click and login as. From their, just insert your username and password. You will then be directed to your cgi-bin or a www folder. You should upload your website into the www folder and from their, your website will be published onto the net for people to see. If you are to make changes, just edit your website with the html editor and save the changes. Then go through the simple ftp steps to re-load your website onto the ftp server. That's all for now. Next edition, I'll be talking about advanced php website making.