Setting up a website?

When I looked to set up my business, I used www.yola.com. It's cheaper than Godaddy, and comes with secure features.

Unfortunately, when doing something like this, everything is its own product. You go to Yola, and you rent your domain. Then you rent a website builder for a few years, then you go on to rent your email for your business and then you rent an online store.

- Domains are about £50 for two years

- The website builder is about £45 for one year

- The email is about £4 a month

- The online store is about £5 a month

The website builder I refer to is Yola Silver. This gives you 5GB of web storage, Yola brand removal, 25 websites and mobile publishing (which is very good, believe me). However it can get very expensive. And if you are setting up a website for a shop, you won't want to have that on top of the thousands it costs for land rental and building costs. That's why I keep my business on the web only, it's not too expensive to maintain.

Also, there are ways you can go about cutting costs.

1) You can use PayPal for more-or-less nothing to sell products on your website

2) You can create your own email domain name (e.g. user123@smithscoffeebar.com) however this comes with a lot of programming and a small risk of harming your computer.

3) You can make an HTML website, then copy the code and paste it into an object on your Yola page

Yola is a great service, I've never had such kind people help me no end when I needed it. It's a great site and the best around if you ask me! It is secure, uploads your updates to your domain URL in a few minutes and gets the best mobile publishing around thanks to all the sites it makes being written in PHP. It's a great place to build an eBusiness!

Of course, if you want it all free and want to avoid any charges, then you can use GBBO if you are in the UK which works with Yola to make a free branded website for a year- but it's not really practical if you want your business to go bigger!

Hope this helps!

Step1: Buy a domain name at yahoo which now has an offer.($1.99/year on domain names registration) just search for the term "1.99 yahoo domains" Note that this is an offer for new customers only.

Step2: Host your domain with a good business top web hosting company.Most of them will offer a variety of web tools like eCommerce shopping carts,PayPal/credit card integration ....Remember that in business you need efficiency and not just a website.

Step3: Design and publish your website with your business information.You can use the services of web designer if you don't know how to do it yourself.

Note that all this will cost you around $7/month or $80/year or $110 for three years.Just be wise.

Here is a site I found that offers all the top web hosting companies reviews and indeed all of them are good for hosting business sites.Those are the best in industry.View this link,

Use www.bluehost.com

Excellent support service

Value for money

Easy to use Control Panel

Go to their website

Choose a domain name

Pay for it and you then are hosting it with them

Upload the webpages for your business.

Email me if you need a basic website structure setting up.

Your best bet is to use a website template site like 1&1 my website or something similar.

They usually incorporate everything you need

1. Domain name register checking and registration

2. Hosting costs

3. Website maintenance and easily changed or modified without hours of HTML work.

4. Incorporated contact us pages and usually a couple free email address like david@my-business.com

Doing all this separately would save you something like £5 a month but you would be dealing with 3 different suppliers and it would take a long time.

Most of them give you a free trial period with full setup etc.