HELP- Entrepreneur stumped with webhosting!!

benwavner wrote: »

Hi everyone.

I need advice badly!

I have recently set myself up as a sole trader and decided to go online. I have registered with a web hosting company and now i dont know what to do next. It was very naive of me to think that all I need to do is register, pay, answer a few questions and "voila" im on the net!!...so far I have:

1/ registered myself as a sole trader
2/ registered my domain name
3/ registered with a web hosting company

now i dont know what to do? How do i use webhosting? do i have to make the website myself?

PLEASE HELP!

Count to ten – there are plenty of hours in the day.

Firstly all the points are mutually exclusive – but ate all connected to you.

You are ‘registered as a sole trader’ – like joe Bloggs or Joe Bloggs t/a ‘Joe’s Wholesale’?

You now haver to inform the hosting company that you want your domain to direct to their servers.

They will give you some space and FTP access so that you can securely put up HTML etc files on that space. (that’s the shortened version you have to get a web site developed to put up there).

Its up to you regarding who you get to do the web pages – word to the wise – if you have no web/design experiences – get someone to do it – you should focus on selling, marketing promotion let the ‘build’ the store for you. Its very time consuming if you have no experience.

Cheers

C

If you registered a domain name and web space in the same package with the same provider usually they are 'linked' already. To avoid spending much money on a web site (depending on what kind you want of course) you can always find a template on the likes of templatemonster.com and get a web savvy friend to edit it for you...