Register The Name And Build The Website

Register The Name

So what does that mean? Does it mean you have to go to Companies House, fill out a complicated form and pay lots of money? No! It will take you five minutes and the name will be registered immediately.

Visit www.MassiveAndPassive.co.uk/name.html and I will guide you through how to register the name.

Tips On Choosing A Name

The name is what someone will see in the address field of your internet browser, i.e. the place where you type the internet address when you wish to visit their site. Other titles for the name of your website are the domain name, the url, the web address or the website. It is the string of characters that start with ‘www’.

The name should be easy to remember - how often have you been told about a site by a friend and then forgotten the whole address? You’re left wondering:

was it spelt like this or like that
did it have a hyphen or dot between each word
was it a .com or a .co.uk or even a .me.uk?

So try to make it as easy as possible for them. Avoid long complicated words or misspelling of words of three syllables or more if used with other words. Also avoid long phrases.

So:

www.aboutcomputerz.com - people may forget to tell you about the ‘z’ at the end and also you may not notice the ‘z’ as it almost reads perfectly until the end, unlike www.carz.com where you notice the misspelling straight away.
www.everythingyouneedtoknowaboutcomputers.com may be a bit too long as you may remember it as www.everythingyouneedto-knowaboutacomputer.com or another variation.
www.everythingabout-computers.com would require someone to communicate that there is only a hyphen between the second and third words which people will forget to say.
www.eyntkac.com standing for Everything You Need To Know About Computers is too difficult to remember, as it will get lost through remembering some other variation and it requires someone to think of the beginning letters of a seven-word phrase in which errors will occur.
Don’t get obsessed by a .com ending. These are the most desired extensions, but that is all it is. .net, .biz, .co.uk and .org are all well respected extensions which are regularly used. I reckon a shorter name .net is better than a longer name .com but this is just my personal opinion.
If possible try to communicate what the site will be about through the name. So www.eyntkac.com means nothing but a collection of seven letters in no memorable sequence. However www.fixcomputer.net does mean something.

Try performing a search for available names for a site about computers:

Computerz.org.uk
Aboutcomputers.biz
fixcomputer.biz
About-computers.co.uk

These were all available when I performed the search on 24 November 2006 and I think they are all good names to use. I quite like the last one as a .co.uk is a well used extension and there are no mispellings.

So go to www.MassiveAndPassive.co.uk/name.html and bear in mind what I have said above.

If you do not require a .co.uk, .org.uk or .biz then you can register your name within the website builder below. If you’re a bit new to all this I suggest you register the name within the website builder as it’s a lot easier to set your site up. So read on!

Build The Website

To build the website visit:

This is an online website builder where you can build your website with unlimited pages. It’s the site that did change my business life back in 2004. The site hasn’t really changed much. I’ve found others, but none really match the functionality and unlimitedness of this one. You can virtually do it all with this website creator.

There is a field box to fill in the name of your website. Fill in any name (as we will be assigning your domain name later) and then click on ‘Create a website for free>>’ and they will look after you from there. If you can point and click a mouse then you can build a website. It’s as simple as that. This website builder is extremely user friendly and requires no technical knowledge or ability. Like I said in the beginning I am not a computer science graduate. I am just a guy who wants to make money and I want to do this as easily as possible.