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?

As I mention in my last blog, there are two methods: cash basis and accrual.

But which method you should choose?

The main difference if you search about that is the accrual method show true picture about your business situation.  You will really now if you are doing the business right. Because of that a lot of accountant suggests that you use the accrual method.

If you have an accountant you may ask him about that.

Because it is better to use the accrual method, my next post will use this method for register the transactions.

Picking the financial year

This is another thing you have to do before continue to deep information about accounting.

You business year must be a 12-month year. But it is not necessary to be like the calendar year that starting from (January and ending by December). You can choose a financial year starting from (June and ending in May). You should choose the best for your business. If you don’t really care it is better to use the calendar year as a financial year or what accountant calls fiscal year.

In next post I will talk about the Accounts and what called the General Ledger. See you then.