WEBSITE A MUST HAVE FOR TODAYS BUSINESS HOUSES
We live in a highly impatient world where everything is required right now or never. Therefore, it makes good business sense for small business owner to attend to their customers around the clock, as and when required.
More importantly, with your small business website, it becomes so much easier and convenient for your existing and prospective clients to log on to your website and browse through the services and products that you offer, whenever they want to.
It's like having a brochure online which is much cheaper to maintain and update as it is easily editable. By providing more details on your website, your clients can now have a better understanding of your small business, your products, locations, etc. and if interested, they can contact you through the website itself.
Just the solution you need, especially in these times where every penny saved is a penny gained. Promote your website and your business online affordably with banners, text links and more. Consumers can immediately click to learn more about a product, register for information, or even buy it right there on the spot.
Get your business online and you can employ newsletters and emailers to keep close contact with your loyal customer base and get them up-to-date on new developments and offers.
In India alone there crores of people using online services and internet business is growing by the day.
There are three steps to follow to create a website. They are:
Register a Domain Name: A domain name looks like my homepage.com. The domain name can be registered through a registrar or hosting provider. Check for the availability of the desired domain name and register it.
Get a Web Host: The Company that enables your website to be viewed by the rest of the world is the Web Host. They have the equipments and the technical knowledge to ensure that your website is available to the world 24/7. The importance of a good host cannot be discounted, as they render help when required and also reduce the stress caused from doing anything new. The rent for hosting the website is on a monthly basis.
Build your Website: The difficulty here lies in your hands. The easy way out is to use your web host's website builder or the hard way is doing it yourself. You can visit introduction to making your own website. Alternatively, you can check the Quackit homepage for pages of Tutorials and other web building resources.
Another aspect that should be learnt is FTP (File Transfer Protocol). Here you either upload or download the files to the server or from the server.
How to use FTP
FTP can be used by downloading and installing software on the computer. There are lots of FTP programmes that you can choose from. The most commonly used FTP program is Smart FTP.
As you launch the FTP program, a start up screen appears. This screen enables you to add your website information and allows the program to connect with your server. You simply key in the information where indicated with the following information:
Profile Name, Host Name and Address, Host Type, User ID, Password.