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Creating a website might seem like a challenge, but it's actually quite straightforward and can be a lot of fun. In this guide, you'll find a bunch of useful links and iiNet how-to articles to help you create a site of your own.

how to make a website

At its simplest, the website-making process has three steps - making space on the web, creating your homepage within your webspace, then letting people know about it. Of course, there's more to it once you get stuck in, but most of the work falls into these categories.

making space on the web

Think of webspace as a virtual plot of land on the internet. Webspace is widely available, ranging from free to premium-grade depending on the space, bandwidth, features and support you require.

Webhosting features explained
Getting to know the hosting terminology out there (computertrainingblog.com)
Tripod.com - 20MB of webspace for free (ad-supported)

If you're an iiNet broadband customer, you can dive straight in - your plan comes with 1GB of webspace and easy FTP access for getting your files online. Have a look through these articles to learn more:

Our supported webhosting products:

personalise your web address

All webspace comes with a default web address - for example, iiNet member webspace comes with the address: members.iinet.net.au/~yourusername.

Shorter, more personalised web addresses come in the form of domains, subdomains or short-URL redirects, some available for free online:

ShortURL.com subdomains - free subdomains that redirect to your site
bit.ly - free short-url redirects
Personalised domains & subdomains from iiNet

creating your homepage

This is the fun part - building your site. Websites are constructed from HTML, a language used to tell web browsers how to rpesent text and images on a page. On top of that, you can easily add colour and style to your pages using CSS.

Get started with some of our HTML and CSS tutorials:

More site-building resources:

Creating homepages - tutorials, hit counters and more
SiteBuilder - website building tool (comes with all business web hosting plans)

letting people know about your site

You can easily skip this step if you're here just to learn about building, but if you're up for taking web traffic a little more seriously, we recommend these articles:

Maximise your web presence
Ten ways to promote (simple tips from yourhtmlsource.com)
25 ways to promote your website or blog (more tips from youthedesigner.com)

doing business online

Doing business online could help even a small operation reach a wide audience for very little cost. For more info, check out our collection of online business articles: