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Three basic things

First, you'll need an actual 'Website'

Commonly this would include any communication media that can be read and/or interacted with via a Web Browser. A simple example could be a series 'hyper-linked' web pages with text and images (like this site).

Second, you'll need a 'Domain Name'

A domain name is a unique web address that gives the 'location', to any Web enabled device, on where to find your website. The 'Domain Name' is the address everybody types in their web browser to go to a particular website. Examples would be; 'www.oxfam.org' or 'www.google.com'. We can assist with the purchase and maintenance Domain Names

Lastly, you need a 'Host'

A 'host' is essentially just a computer configured to 'serve' web pages?

All your email, letter and digital photograph files are stored on your own computer's hard drive (JPG, BMP, TXT, DOC). Web page files are no different (HTML, PHP, CSS, JS), they can also reside on your hard drive along with everything else. All the files that are stored on your computer could be said to be 'hosted' by your computer.

You could, if you really wanted, 'host' your website from your own computer. This would mean though, having your computer turned on 24 hours a day.. every day. In most cases this is not practical, unless you're a very large organization.

Most people choose instead to 'rent' some space on someone else's computer. This is what is meant by someone 'hosting' your website. Terms like 'your host', 'hosting package', 'web space' are all references to the idea of your website files being stored on someone else's computer.

It is this 'remote' computer that sends your webpage's to those who wish to see them. The technical term is that the remote computer 'serves' the web pages to the user. Computers that store and send web pages are therefore often referred to as 'servers'.

So there are the basic necessities for having a website, but there are still many things that need to be considered in preparation. Contact us or follow the rest of the links on this site to help you make the right preparation and avoid the many common pitfalls. So next to: Web Site Planning