Web Development - 3 Steps to Start and Run It
Posted: Friday, September 17, 2010
by Adrian Oliver
Adrian
Step 1: Goal
Decide what type of website you need to launch, it may be a personal website, commercial website or non-profit organization website. Websites can be developed for anything like sharing ideas/thoughts, reviewing books, products or games, promoting products/services or offering information about a city, event, historical place, etc.
In order to start a website, you need to register for a domain and get it hosted through a hosting company. Just select a domain name that appropriately suits your website and check its availability with domain registrars like namecheap.com, sedo.com, godaddy.com etc. Most registrars charge around $15-35/year for registration and take one - three days for registration, and some of them offer hosting services at reasonable costs to place the domain on the internet.
You can choose a domain registrar that offers both domain registration and web hosting services, or register a domain with a registrar and choose any web hosting company for hosting the registered domain.
Step 3: Web development
In the past, developing a web site was a big thing which could be done only by developers having knowledge of HTML and programming. But this is not the case anymore; the current web design industry offers open source software and ready-made scripts to develop a website easily, even without any knowledge on HTML.
If you want to run a site like popular websites YouTube, Facebook, Twitter etc, you can chose a clone software of those popular sites available in the market. When you have decided to get a clone script, check its features and reliability by viewing its demo, review content and testimonials and then buy it.
Start your dream website by following these three steps. Don't stop with the web development alone, you have to maintain and promote it to survive in the web world. This can be done easily by outsourcing web maintenance and promotion to a well-experienced web development company.
Social networking has created a great revolution in the internet world. Most netizens have an account in popular social networking sites like Orkut, Facebook and MySpace. They live in their own world by forming a community and friends group, and organizing events among themselves without caring that their activities and personal details are probably being accessed by others. Most of them are on social networking sites for the social aspect alone.
Due to the availability and accessibility of social networking sites, many employees have taken it as a default way to contact with friends, colleagues and business associates. When networking comes to organization, productivity is reduced as employees concentrate more in keeping in touch with friends and making new ones. So Banks, BPOs and most IT companies have banned social networks in their workplace.
But creative companies like ad agencies and internet companies do not block networking sites as their employees can make use of social media to get new ideas, learn more about all kinds of stuff and make money through social interaction. Servicing companies are also using social networks to reach their audience and interact with customers.
On the downside, social networking sites are hit by annoying worms, AdWare, and phishing attacks. It has become a hacker's paradise. Recently, the anti-virus firm Sophos has done a study on social networking, according to which, "63% of system administrators worry that employees who share too much personal information on social networking sites will put their company's IT infrastructure at risk. A quarter of these businesses also report that they have been the victim of spam, phishing, and malware attacks via sites like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and MySpace."
Everything in the world has two sides, just as social networking has both a good, and a bad face. All depends on how well you make use of it. Organizations can increase their productivity through social media by allowing their employees to learn new ideas, discuss various issues and interact with clients.
Social networking offers the best platform to reach a targeted audience. Social networks are not the only gateway for viruses; scams and malware attacks still arrive by mail as well. We can conclude that social networking is great boon for corporate to extend their hands worldwide and reach every corner of the globe.
Do you want to start a social networking site? It may be for business promotion or making friends or sharing knowledge. You can make use of clone scripts to start a social networking site similar to popular networking sites like YouTube, Facebook, easily. Agriya, a web development company, offers world class social networking scripts that allow you to build a networking site with essential features.
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Top-level comments on this article: (2 total)Great Article.... Really Helpful!!!! Welcome to Searchwarp!
It's easy to forget that Facebook and YouTube were started by humans! I'm going to look at your website, it sounds interesting.
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