Start Building Your Website With Free Web Hosting

In order to learn how to fix your
own website, you need a website to
practice on.

Free web hosting is a good starting
place.

Here's a free web host:

http://www.host-ed.net/

All you need to do to get started building
your own website is sign up for free web
hosting and they will give you a free sub-domain.

Let's say you choose alleycat as your
free subdomain.

Then your website will be found at this
web address:

http://alleycat.host-ed.net/

Make sense?

You don't have your own web address because
you've not paid for one. When you do decide
to pay for one, that's called registering a
domain name.

I'll save registering domain names for another
day.  We can talk about that later.

For now, just know that you will be using the
web address of your free hosting company and
that your free sub-domain will be under the
auspices of their domain name.

It works like this:

City.State

sub-domain.domain

Just as a city is under the auspices of a
state; so, a sub-domain is under the auspices
of a domain.

Again, I'll give you your hypothetical web
address:

http://alleycat.host-ed.net/

alleycat is the sub-domain that belongs to
you personally.

host-ed is the domain name that legally
belongs to your hosting company.

Put the two together and you have a web
address for your web site. Here. I'll
put your web address together again one
more time:

http://alleycat.host-ed.net/

Note that this is not a limitation. You
can always buy yourself a domain name at
a later date should you want your own web
address that you legally own.

However, using a sub-domain is a good
stop-gap if all you want to do is learn
how to create your own web site.

OK. I'll stop now. I think that's enough
information for now.

Ed Abbott