how do I create a website?

A common question:

i’ve joined Yahoo and paid for website hosting. How do I start creating the website?


Expert Answer: It is not your fault you got confused. Web hosting is one of the most important part of your web presence and can mean the life or death to your business.

Before we give you a definitive answer, these are seven things to look for in a good web hosting. An excellent hosting:

  1. has excellent support and rated at least A+ by Better Business Bureau (BBB),
  2. gives unlimited storage,
  3. offers unlimited bandwidth,
  4. gives multiple add-on domains,
  5. has easy-to-use Site Builder,
  6. has Fantastico and QuickInstall to quickly install apps like WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, OSCommerce, ZenCart and more
  7. can be easily upgraded to VPS or one of the best dedicated server plans if and when your business require.

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  1. YSmallBizCare
    April 29th, 2012 at 06:26
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    Great question Caroline, however the answer will depend on what you want to do with the site and what options you are looking for.

    By default, when you first create a Yahoo! Web Hosting account, you are offered our online tool Yahoo! Site Solutions. It offers a quick and simple template based site creator that will allow you to start a site quickly with little effort. You can see what other options are available with this tool by visiting:

    http://help.yahoo.com//l/us/yahoo/smallbusiness/webhosting/yss/

    If you are looking for a more hands on tool, we also offer a HTML based editor called Yahoo! SiteBuilder. This tool will allow you to create pages specific to your needs without the restrictions of templates or forms. Yahoo! SiteBuilder is a downloadable tool and is currently only available for Microsoft Windows based computers. You can see more about Yahoo! SiteBuilder by checking out:

    http://help.yahoo.com//l/us/yahoo/smallbusiness/webhosting/sitebuilder2/

    Besides the free tools we offer, we also allow you to use third party tools such as Dreamweaver and WordPress to be used with your web hosting service.

    If you have any other questions about your service, our tools or any other products we provide, feel free to contact us anytime at http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/contactus/

  2. Ventus Luciel
    April 29th, 2012 at 08:02
    Reply | Quote | #2

    Use either HTML or some website making site like webs.com

  3. Meera
    April 29th, 2012 at 09:24
    Reply | Quote | #3

    go to www.blogger.com first then create account fill form etc.

  4. Aansy
    April 29th, 2012 at 11:41
    Reply | Quote | #4

    how about hiring some pro and tell him/her your requirements. it would be a much appropriate way if you are looking to build a professional website. else you can install wordpress on your hosting and then a template to carry on.

    aansystone@yahoo is my mail address, let me know if you need a helping hand. :)

  5. Roman
    April 29th, 2012 at 11:07
    Reply | Quote | #5

    If you really dont know the Answer to this the best Answer would be to start with a program Such as Webs.com, but i would Prefer Ucoz.com.

    They are Excellent and completely free websites that allow you to host and have up your own websites.
    They have tons of Pre-Programmed Templates and Web Designs,
    All you gotta do it Modify them with html Editor, then modify the CSS sheets,
    Google in or Check out w3school.com to learn Coding html, and css as your learning.
    its a Great Way to start Learning.
    Then eventually once you familiarize yourself with coding you can move onto bigger Projects.
    Practice Trying to FreeStyle your own Designs to, after youve learned more. its alotta fun aswell as it pays back in the future!

    But Trust me, this is the easiest way to learn on your own, google any kind of code you need and Study and Learn it!

    Good Luck!

  6. i may be random but so is life
    April 29th, 2012 at 11:17
    Reply | Quote | #6

    PLEASE STOP LISTENING TO THESE OTHER ANSWERS! As they are bad answers. The way i learned to make website and have become as successful as I am today is from disassembling a website someone gave me a long time ago. Learn form experience is what I say. These other people tell you to learn something and they probably don’t even know what they are talking about.

    I’m the CEO of WordPress Website Builder And i’m inviting you to come over and avail a free package. I would like all the individuals from here to come and claim a free website, You can tinker/tweak and mess around with the professionally designed website we give you which is 100% yours to do with as you please.

    Now for those serious marketers out there that want to make money online, I recommend you come over and try one of our paid packages. We provide drop-shippers and prelisted products so you can start making sales the moment we turn the site over to you. Best part is all our packages come with a 72hours guaranteed delivery (including our free package) For affiliates/advertisers we also have an affiliate program that offers $30 minimum commissions for anyone you can get to avail our free package

    Caroline good luck with your online ventures, I hope I was able to provide some help and information to you. Hope you will come over and try us out.

  7. Steve
    April 29th, 2012 at 11:08
    Reply | Quote | #7

    Wow. People are very aggressive on trying to help you.

    In my opinion the most effective way is to focus on wordpress and you can learn html at the same time.
    You can chat with me on my site. It’s FREE. and I can go into more detail if you like. There’s also a application you can download for FREE that let’s you video chat with up to 6 friends at the same time.

    Site is below:

    Steven