Building Your Own Personal Website and Have it Hosted For Free

Summary

Common places to create and have your website hosted. Also, custom domain names and connecting them to your site.

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There are several companies that host and provide some way to build a website that can be published for free. You will be given a domain name which is the web address where your website can be accessed through an internet browser.

Steps

For example, when creating a Google Site the domain name would look something like this:

Instead of “mypage” you can choose any other name you like if it is available. In addition to hosting the following companies also provide premade templates that you can edit and use for your own website.

Your site and all its content would be hosted by one of the above company’s servers. However, paying for premium services at one of these companies would allow you to connect a domain name of your choice to the webpage you created.

For example, when buying a domain name, you could purchase something like this:

Instead of “MyName” you can choose any other name you like if it is available. Domain names can be purchased from:

This would be a great way to connect your Blogger site to your domain name at Google Domains. 


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Article ID: 29574
Created
Thu 4/20/17 9:53 PM
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Mon 10/28/19 3:22 PM