Your Own Website

An Online Presence

Setting up your own online presence is remarkably easy and cheap these days. Whether it be a personal or business website, you can be up an running with your own e-mail addresses and web pages in a few days. (Yes, your website will include your own e-mail addresses.)

How Can We Help You

Not sure how to go about this - shawware.com.au can assist you with the process. Basically, we help you:

  • choose and register your own domain name
  • choose a host provider
  • configure your e-mail addresses
  • choose, install and configure a website management system
  • show you how to maintain your website

What Will You Be Able To Do

You can be creating your own web pages in no time. Further, your website system will most likely support the following:

  • simple unchanging pages
  • a weblog
  • reader polls
  • mailing lists
  • discussion forums
  • news postings
  • event calendars
  • photo galleries
  • pretty much anything

Costs

The costs are remarkably low. Purchasing your own domain name will cost anywhere from $15-$30 per year. You retain all rights to your domain name, but you will need to renew your ownership for a fee every 12 or 24 months.

A host provider will charge you anything from $10 per month to hundreds of dollars. It all depends on what features you want and how much content will be downloaded. A typical small website that doesn't have millions of readers downloading high-volume video, will be quite cheap. For example this website costs around $15 per month.

A website management system is typically available at no charge. There are many available on the world-wide-web and some of the best are free of charge. This website is managed using a free system. It is most likely a free system will meet your needs.

The only other cost is for our time in doing the work and helping you learn how to manage your website. Once you're trained, you shouldn't need us any more and you'll be in control of your own website. You will only have your recurrent domain name and hosting costs going forward.