Basic points to know before deciding to have a website

People and companies build websites to promote and serve their customers around the world through the internet. Having a website will increase your ranking if you serve well and provide information to your customers or audience appropriately and efficiently.

Most of the companies build their website for advertising their products or selling their products, others build their website to better serve their customers and provide them necessary information on the areas they need.

Here are few items that you need to know before processing further to have your own website.

1. You need to decide and plan what information and services are making sense to put on a website. To find out this, you need to do some research about the same services and product that others have on the Internet. Then you can decide on what should appear and where they should appear. The outcome will be a detailed document which can be called specification. 
2. You need to develop a website based on the specification. You can hire someone to design and develop your website. The cost for building a website can be between 300$ to 5000$ for basic websites.
3. You need to buy a domain. A domain is a unique address for your company.  E.g. www.google.com is called a domain name. You can have your own domain name from a domain provider on the internet.
   
4. After buying a domain you need to have a hosting space. You can have the hosting space in your house or anywhere else but have reliable, secure, all time available and trust worthy with high bandwidth, you need to buy a hosting plan from hosting providers.  Hosting space is an inventory where your website source files will be stored and executed. Most of the time you can get a free domain from hosting companies as an intensive.
   

   
5. For having a secure and encrypted connection between your customers and your website, you need to buy SSL (HTTPS). Most of hosting companies provide free SSL with their hosting packages.
6. Finally, you need to deploy your source code to hosting space and point your domain name to your hosting provide Domain Name Servers.

Having a website needs permanent maintenance. You need to update your information, you need to publish new articles and need to improve your website quality and appearance day by day.