Once you finished your website, you need to publish it so the whole world can see it online. But do you know where to put all your website files? That comes the web hosting service. They provide space on their servers for you to upload your files and visible to the virtual world.

If you are a newbie, choosing the best host provider may be tedious or you may not have any idea which one to choose. I know, I’ve been there before so I will not make things complicated for you. Choose GoDaddy! (You can click the link above)

Go Daddy provides individuals and businesses with such Internet services as domain name registration and Web site hosting through its affiliates. It also offers related services and software for functions including e-mail, e-commerce, and Web-site creation. Touting discounted pricing on domain names and hosting services, Go Daddy has become the largest domain registrar accredited by ICANN (the international regulatory body for the public Internet) in the world, with more than 30 million domain names. The company has affiliates that address market niches in site registration and hosting, including Domains By Proxy and Wild West Domains. CEO Bob Parsons owns the company, which he founded in 1997.

I’ve been using their service several years already. The best thing with their service is the ease of doing the process very smoothly specially for beginners. Let’s say you want to create a blog. You don’t need to make a blog website to do that. Just go to your GoDaddy account, choose the blog application to be installed on your account and that’s it. They will install the blog for you as you wish. No need to configure a lot of things. All will be set base on your desired settings. You just need to do the enhancement later after the setup. Same thing if you want to create other sites as well like CMS, Social Networking, Forum, etc.

In my future article I will discuss further on setting up your site using GoDaddy.

For website designing, I suggest and highly recommend this software, Adobe Dreamweaver. Initially it was under Macromedia then later purchased by Adobe Systems. This softwares makes website designing very easy with its WYSIWYG mode. For beginners, this software might be confusing but I suggest you only learn the basic. Nevermind those advance function, you can learn that afterwards.

Watch the video below to show you how easy it is to build a website using this software.

1. Define your topic to talk about and stick to it. It is very important to be sure of what topic your blog is all about. If you want to have a music blog, then you will post articles related to music. Don’t ever post something about IT stuff, or else you’ll end up ruining your blog. Be specific with your blog.

2. Use clean and nice template. First impressions last, and these impressions depends on your template. There are lots of free templates online, try to choose something that best suits your blog. Everyone have different taste, but try to choose something that you think most of your readers will like.

3.Post something that you as sure about. Blogging comes from your own opinion, not from others. If you are not sure of what you are posting, don’t ever do it. Blogging is an extension of what you are and what you think. Post topics that you are confident to share with others.

4. Post regularly. If you want to build avid readers, post regularly. Online readers, once you gain their trust will keep coming back to you site. What if there’s nothing new, do you think they will come back again? Just keep blogging.

5. Use plugins. Plugins are part of your blog that displays links, previous post, top post, top comments, ads, etc. These part can caught the attention of the readers and make them stay to your blog for a while. But then, you need to arrange this plugins so it won’t be annoying.

6. Promote your blog. Blogging is fun if you have readers. So after you setup your blog, you need to promote it. You should let other people know that you have a blog, then eventually they will visit it. Start with your friends, family or officemates. Try to use other means of online media like Facebook, Twitter, Friendster, etc.

7. Write clearly. Use proper grammar with correct spelling. Some readers are very well educated and they will be discouraged reading your blogs if it is full of errors.

8. Put subscription link. This comes useful especially if you want to develop bonding between you and your readers. You can communicate or contact them in case you have new posts or announcements regarding your blog.

9. Set RSS feeds. Nowadays, most online users prefer to read online contents including blogs, t hr u RSS readers. It’s easy to set, so better set up one.

10. Enjoy blogging. Whatever you do, if you enjoy it, you will have a passion to do it. Blogging is very tiresome; imagine writing articles and all this stuff. That’s why blogging is not for all, it’s only for those people that have passion for it. You’ll not last on this business if you won’t.

Happy blogging!

Here is the list of top FREE Opensource Templates website available on the internet. Feel free to browse each sites and see if you can get the best template for your site. Take now, its FREE.

http://opensourcetemplates.org/

Probably the best on open source templates on the internet.

http://www.opendesigns.org/

They have 1527 free open source designs available for download.

http://www.openwebdesign.org/

Open Web Design is a community of designers and site owners sharing free web design templates as well as web design information. Helping to make the internet a prettier place!

http://www.free-css.com/

They have the best CSS templates available for download.

Template is the one that controls the appearance of your blog. In blogger, they only have few designs available for you to use. On this tutorial, I will teach you how to change the template using FREE templates available online.

First login to your BLOGGER account and look for the blog that you will edit. Click LAYOUT below it and you will be brought to your blog settings page. Under LAYOUT, click PICK NEW TEMrPLATE. Listed there are the only templates available in BLOGGER for you to use. Fortunately, lots of FREE templates available on the internet. Let’s use GOOGLE and search for the word “free blogger templates.” Visit the top sites listed and start browsing for your desired templates. Look for DOWNLOAD link and save it to your computer. Mostly its on ZIP format, try to unzip it first. Inside it, you only need the XML file.

Go back to your BLOGGER account and click EDIT HTML on the menu. There you will see BROWrSE button, look for your XML file then click it. After the successful upload, you can now view your BLOG.

Watch the video for more information.

Before you create a website, make sure you know what is your purpose in putting up the website. Is it for your personal, for your company, for your group, for your organization, etc? Bear in mind that different purpose needs different design that fits to it.

First, choose your desired template. Template is a ready made website published online. Thou some are premium with price tag, there are lots of FREE templates to choose from. Don’t bother yourself creating your site from scratch when you have a ready made one.

By typing the word “free open source template”, you’ll get a lot of results. You can view all the results one by one, or go to this site directly http://opensourcetemplates.org/.

From there, you have lots of web templates to choose from. Choose which one best suits your website, then hit the download button. Save a copy to your computer and we’ll start working on it.

Adobe Photoshop – for picture editing and logo creation
Adobe Dreamweaver – used for editing website
MS Paint – the very basic for picture editing
Notepad – this one comes very useful in coding

I guess this are all the basic softwares that you must have. It’s the same software installed in my computer right now while pursuing my online passion.

To start with blogging, you need to have an email account. I suggest you apply one email address in GMAIL.

Before you begin blogging, you need to identify first what is your blog all about. It should be something that you want to share with other people like your photos, stories, comments, essays or just another daily diary. Then you have to identify your target audience, whether your blog is for your eyes only, for your circle of friends, family or for the whole world to see. If you are done thinking for a blog topic, let’s proceed to the next step.

There lots of websites offering for blogs. The best for me is BLOGGER which will be the center of our tutorial. Let’s go to BLOGGER site and create a blog. Click the CREATE A BLOG button to continue.

On the next step below, we need to create a GOOGLE account to access some resources we will need in blogging. Fill up the form and click CONTINUE button on the bottom part.

Next part will be to name your blog. There are lots of existing blogs out there so be sure to check the availability of your desired blog address. For a tip, choose a blog address that best describes your blog. Once settled, click CONTINUE to proceed.

The last part of our BLOGGER registration will be the choosing of the desired layout. It will be the design of your blog so you choose what is best for you. You will find only few and simple designs available but don’t worry. Later I will guide you where to get good and nice blogger templates. In the meantime, choose any of the listed design and click CONTINUE to finish our registration.

Now let’s familiarize with the BLOGGER settings. There are four tabs on top of the page mainly POSTING, SETTINGS, LAYOUT and VIEW BLOG.

Under POSTING tab, you can create and edit your posts. Be sure to put a good title on it to attract more readers. Labels is also important, it will describe what your article is all about. Once you are done, click PUBLISH POST and you can see your finish blog.

Under SETTINGS tab, there are lots of options to choose from. For beginners, this is quite complicated. I suggest that if you are not familiar with it, leave it on default settings. Do some of the tweaking once you are familiar with BLOGGER.

LAYOUT tab handles the way your blog will look in terms of arrangement and contents to display. Page Elements section will be very useful to you so be familiar with it. Gadget is a part of your blog where you customize and add what you want aside from your blog post. Here you can put pictures, blog links, adsense and other useful blog tools that you will know as you keep on blogging. The rest of the options can be clearly understood.

Congratulations! You now have a blog. Share it with your friends and the rest of the world.

Setting a PAYPAL account is very easy. Follow these steps.

How to Setup Paypal Account

1. Go to PayPal.com and click on sign up on the top of the page. You’ll need to choose your account type here. You want to select Personal Account. Click the “Start Now” button to begin.

2. Enter your personal information and create a password. Read the user agreement and privacy policy and then click “I Agree, Create My Account” at the bottom of the page. This will take you to a screen where you have to enter your bank account information so that you can send and receive money.

3. Enter your bank name and type of account, checking or savings. Then enter your bank routing number. It is usually the set of numbers at the bottom of your check all the way to the left. Then enter your bank account number. This is usually the set of numbers in the middle on the bottom of your check.

4. Click submit when all of your information has been entered. PayPal will then send you an email to verify your information.

5. Open the email and click on the link they give you. This will take you to an information verification screen. You will have to enter the answers to your security questions here and verify your information. Once completed, you will see a message that says your account has been successfully completed.

Congratulations. You can now start sending and receiving money through PayPal.

Nowadays, lots of website design software is available in the market like DREAMWEAVER, which I like most.

HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. It’s the dominant language used in building a website. It’s the programming codes for the internet.

If you are a beginner, you don’t need to be afraid to learn all these codes. I will even suggest you not to focus much on this HTML topic. What I want you to know is to learn the basic, know how it works and see how does it look like. In the process, you will need this knowledge to make some amendments on your site template. There are lots of free quality templates available for download in the internet, why bother design your own. Just modify it and viola, you now have your site. Don’t forget to follow what is stated on the free license agreement.

Now let’s open NOTEPAD and type below text on it.

Then save the file and name it “sample.html”. Close NOTEPAD and double click the file you saved. It will be opened in your internet explorer or any default browser.

This is a basic sample of an HTML codes. There are lots of codes to use, but you dont need to memorize all of them. Now let’s review the codes we used on our example…

All websites have these codes… All the codes must have <> on it. And to close the code, they have to use in the end. Meaning all the text inside it are part of that code..

HTML—initialize your page
HEAD—header part of the page
TITLE–title of your page that will be displayed on top of browser
BODY—contents of your page.

So the above example page will display the word “Hello World! Welcome Batanggenyo” content on your browser.

These is how HTML works. I suggest below link for further codes and discussions about the topic.

CLICK HERE

JMH9WKY6Y7WJ