Do It Yourself
CloudLadder takes care of the grubby details for most clients. Others tackle building their website themselves. This page provides links to resources for those who have the skills, time, and determination to slug through acquiring domain names, purchasing hosting, preparing the site code and more.
Domain Names and Hosting
There are many providers in this field and there is much competition. The prices for services change rapidly as the technology evolves.
Check Domain Name Availability (service provided by 1and1)
Google offers domain names with a very wide range of suffixes (TLD – top level domains) [CloudLadder is not affiliated with Google]:
domains.google.com
CloudLadder is affiliated with the hosting companies whose ads are shown in this section. Please patronize these companies.
Warpline – low-cost hosting service and domain name registration
DreamHost – Full service hosting and domain name registration
1and1 – Full service hosting and domain name registration
Bluehost – Full service hosting and domain name registration
WordPress
Website engine for use in your own hosted site – see WordPress.org
WordPress help page for setting up a business site
For a no cost approach use WordPress.com
Live Writer
For many years the very best editing tool was Microsoft Windows Live Writer. Sadly Microsoft has discontinued this tool, but the code was opened to the Open Source community. Open Live Writer was released in 2017, however it has not seen any recent updates.
For Live Writer tutorials and tips see
Expression Web 4
A complete website can be built with a HTML editor. Years ago Microsoft offered a fine graphical tool, Expression Web. This has been discontinued for many years, but the editor continues to be available from Microsoft. To build your own website using an easy graphical interface or HTML you can get Microsoft Expression Web 4 – it is free!
Social Media
Just so you wont forget the social media part, here are some links
