where do i begin?

What do I need to have a website of my own?

In addition to a good website designer and developer, you will need three things to put a website on the internet: a domain name, a website, and a web host.

1. A website is a collection of one or more pages—documents coded in HTML and CSS that are linked to each other and very often to pages on other websites.
   
   
2. A domain name is your website address.  For example, www.sitecrafter.net is this website's domain name.
   
   
3. A web host provides the service that allows you to store the information that makes up your website. A web host stores your website's information on a web server. Each time you type a web address into your browser, the browser asks for your website's information from the web host's server, and then the browser displays it on your screen.