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Building Websites All-in-One For Dummies, 3rd Edition
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Building Websites All-in-One For Dummies, 3rd Edition

by David Karlins, Doug Sahlin
August 2012
Beginner content levelBeginner
816 pages
21h 45m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 4: Securing a Domain Name and Web-Hosting Service

In This Chapter

check.png Researching domain names

check.png Securing a domain

check.png Defining your web-hosting requirements

check.png Securing a web host

The preliminary steps for getting a web-design job up and running may seem tedious, but if you and your client get your ducks in a row at the beginning, the work will flow much smoother. As the self-help gurus are fond of saying, “Fail to plan, and you plan to fail.” Truer words were never spoken.

Your initial work with the client or your team tells you what you need to know to design the site as well as what content your client or team needs to provide. After the web pages are built, you need a home for them. And then you need a way for the client’s potential customers to find the site — and that’s where a domain name and URL come in to play. The domain name, of course, is synonymous with the URL. When you pick a domain name such as myfabuolousdomain.com, it becomes a URL: www.myfabulousdomain.com.

In this chapter, we show you how to choose, purchase, and register a domain name for the site, and also how to ...

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