Register Your Domain Name
So let's say you've decided that you're ready to go whole hog, start your own site, give it a name like amandademanda.com, design it yourself, get email at demanding@amandademanda.com, the whole kit and caboodle. Here's how this goes:
Get your name.com.
To get your URL--the amandademanda.com address--you need to register it. There are a bazillion registrars out there, so here are some tips:
Price: Good and cheap registrars will charge about $7.95 give or take a couple of bucks.
Freedom: Let's say you want to move the site somewhere else. You should have access to account management features that allow you to do all this without human intervention (unless, something goes wrong).
!IMPORTANT! Whenever you register a domain, ALWAYS use an email address that you will have access to forever (e.g., not the temporary address from school). Should you ever want to change information, and you don't have that email address anymore, it's a gigantic pain in the butt to change it.
Here at the labs, we use Dotster and godaddy. Both are reliable and cheap ($7-10 dollars per domain).
So let's say you've decided that you're ready to go whole hog, start your own site, give it a name like amandademanda.com, design it yourself, get email at demanding@amandademanda.com, the whole kit and caboodle. Here's how this goes:
