Domain Names:

The Domain Name Should Be the Website Name.

This may seem obvious but it’s surprising how many sites are given a different name than the domain. If the name is also the URL there is no confusion. My site is Kimmilton.com. I also own kimsjournal.com. Other domains I have purchased are gurutricks.com and prewii.com.

• If the domain name is not available, see if the owner is willing to sell it? Look at the “whois” to find contact information.
• Another option is to find a good domain name and then create your business around that name.

Specific or generic names?

It sounds good to have a generic name but when people are looking for something they normally have a more specific name in mind. If I want to fly to New York, I don’t search for Airplane, or fly. I search for ‘compare airfares’ or ‘cheap flights’. A, matter of fact there are some companies that have branded themselves. Can you guess who?

The length of the domain name. (A domain name can be 67 characters.)

Longer and Hyphenated names may have an advantage with search engines.

Here is what I look for (these are my preferences):

• A domain name that is 15 or less characters. The longer a name is the more likely it is to be misspelled.
• Personal (specific) to what I am doing. Ex: kimsjournal.com
• No funky spelling. Ex: room2fly.com or room-to-fly.com
• Two thoughts that go together. Ex: kimsjournal.com or thrushprocessing.com a bad domain name is more like getdiscountsforme.com.
• No acronyms unless universally known

Plurals

I f you can't get the domain name you want, the registrar will suggest alternate forms. Ex: class.com, myclass.com, myclasses.com. This is fine as long as you advertise the site with the complete name. Be careful that you don’t compete with similar business that has the singular version if the name.

What domains are best? com, net, org, etc…

The domain very much depends on what the domain is being used for and the audience. I prefer .com but there are a very limited number of .com names available.

Space

It’s easy and in most cases less expensive to buy the domain name and space from the same company, within a package. Most packages allow hosting for multiple domains within the same space.

http://www.cheap-web-hosting-plans.com/

Getting Started:

• Defining a website
• Defining a remote Server
• New File (HTML page)

Next answer a few questions...

Do we know how to: 

1. Understand the Dreamweaver interface?
2. Connect to a remote server
3. Create and upload a basic a web page
4. Format text
5. Create text links
6. Create e-mail links
7. Set anchors and create links to anchors
8. Create graphic links (buttons)
9. Check web pages for broken or missing links
10. Update changed links.
11. Insert and edit graphics
12. Investigate image properties
13. Align graphics and text
14. Investigate color tools and uses
15. Control images in backgrounds and tables
16. Create an image map
17. Explore the relationship of Photoshop to Dreamweaver
18. Design a page with tables
19. Insert and align items in a table
20. Use a table layout to organize a web page.
21. Define and investigate a template, a library item, a snippet, and a style
22. Create and edit templates
23. Create pages from templates
24. Create library items and add them to documents
25. Create, edit, and use snippets
26. Create, edit, and apply HTML Styles.
27. Answer the question, "What are cascading style sheets and why should I use them?"
28. Create new CSS styles and style sheets
29. Edit CSS styles
30. Apply CSS styles from Dreamweaver files
31. Complete the site

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