Probably the most difficult step, why would I want a website?

You might want to share information with like-minded people, but the biggest reason these days, is to sell something. This could be an extension to an existing business or a brand new venture.

It could simple be a “shop window” for the world to see with contact details, phone numbers, e-mail addresses for prospective customers to make enquiries or a more complex online store where customers can order and pay directly into your bank account.

More and more consumers are becoming confident with making purchases over the Internet and discovering the stress free experience of buying online.

In the UK in 2005 nearly £20 Billion pounds worth of sales was done over the internet and this now represents 10% of all UK retail sales, so there is still plenty of room for expansion.

A domain name is a web address which anyone can type into their computer and see your web pages.

At Rainbow Web Design we use Easily.co.uk to register our domain names. Use the following table to see if your domain name is still available.

You could construct it yourself, but why bother learning a foreign language when there are so many web designers out there already. Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) is the simplest language used to construct websites but the Internet is evolving year by year. Websites can quickly look dated and a badly designed website is worse that having no website at all.

HTML is easy to master but are you prepared to keep up to date with the latest trends XML, SHTML, DHTML, Flash, PHP, ASP or MYSQL.

A hosting server is just a large computer that is switched on all the time so that the world can see your web site 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year.

Websites do not take up a lot of space but hosting packages will generally be far bigger than what you need. We host lots of websites so we get value for money, which we can pass on to you.