The salient points of creating a web site are discribed in the list below:

• Having Your Own Domain Name
• Finding a Web Site Host Provider
• Web Authoring Tools
• Using Remote Featutes

The small cost of purchasing your own domain name is well worth the effort.

Choosing a short cryptic name will help potential customers remember who you are and what you do. 

Search engines will also favour domain name sites.

The majority of host providers offer lots of extra features. However these just inflate the monthly fees and in fact are available for FREE remotely as discussed below.

These host providers will also arrange a domain name for you at extra cost.

Find the lowest price host provider which will host your domain name.

Some sites make profits from the telephone calls to their service. These will offer the lowest option.

The top of the range packages like DreamWeaver for creating web sites are not only expensive but very time consuming and complicated to learn and use.

MicroSoft's FrontPage is much easier to use but is still quite expensive.

The best by far is Netscape Composer. This is FREE and part of Netscape's Browser suite of programs.

This is very similar to FrontPage and gives a true WYSIWYG preview of the final web page. If you can create a MicroSoft Word document then you'll be able to create a web page very easily.

All these features are FREE and can enhance your web site tremendously. Features like:

• Response Forms
• Search Engine
• Site Statistics


Response Forms

 
These can be used for anything that is entered into a form. When used as an email the visitor never sees your email address.

The form is always submitted through BraveNet and sent to your mailbox.

Search Engine

The above 2 features are supplied FREE by a company called BraveNet at:

All that is involved is to register, set up your features and finally copy and paste some HTML text into your web page.

SmallBuys' Request Products, Search and Contact Us pages use BraveNet's features, 

Take a look - there's a lot more features available than what's described here.

Site Statistics

Are supplied by a company called WebStat at:

Their FREE registration offers an invaluable amount of information about your visitors, much more than a simple hit counter - take a look.