How I start building and hosting websites.
Hello,
I start building websites from 1998. I used front page for designing my website pages. To host the site I used Freeservers free website host.
I just start to build the first website to make me happy about the ability to put something to the world. I start to put some content from copyright books and journals. I really wasn’t have any idea about the copyright materials and what that mean! I just start to rewrite some articles and some pages from the books to add more content to my small website.
The main problem for me before is that I don’t know a lot about something called traffic or how can I measure this these called visitors and visits. Or how can the visitors visit my site without knowing the site URL. I didn’t really care at the beginning but after three months I just stop working on my website because I think there is nothing I can give to my visitors if there is any visitor!
It was a good thing to know how to do that when you was just 13 years old. specially the internet wasn’t used in the past as it used nowadays. I was really proud that I can do that and I know how to build a website. but I don’t really know how to know if there is someone really interesting in my website or it’s just a page there and nothing else.
After these days. I moved to something called dynamic webpages. I learned how to install a php forum and how to manage that and add new sections and add moderators to the forums and so on. I used a free hosting also to do my magic. it’s name f2s or something like that. They provide a webspace that you can run php on it and a free MySql databases and that’s what you want to start your php forums.
Using a php forum like VBulletin was illegal if you don’t have a license from them. I don’t really care about that because I was using a free host and don’t really start a serious forum. it was just for fun. that’s just before I move to my next level with building websites.
The Boom was because of Namezero website which give you a domain name for a 0$ for a one year. I pick a name and start to build my website on a free webhosting also but have it’s Domain name. It was a big movement toward a real website. when the time came to renew the domain name I don’t really have or know about the Credit Cards. I try to seek for a one on my family had one but I did not find anyone. I know someone from the internet and he renew the Domain name for me and I was really thankful for him because of that. This move me to new stage of building a website.
I try to find a web host for my website and I found one called Site5.com. I found someone on my family have a credit card which help me to sign up with this web hosting company. I start to build my first proper website on my live. That’s cost me in the first year or so. But then I move to host more websites on the same web hosting account. I found after that I need to have my own reseller account to allow some of my friends to start here own websites. That’s move me to a really huge movement by start paying for my first server.
Nowadays I don’t really have the same feelings toward building websites because I don’t have time to do that now. But I have some great Ideas which I will start to do when I have time to do it. I know how to program in PHP and how to use MySql and that’s a great help to make my ideas true.
do you have some information about your first time ever you build a website?