After developing a website its launching process is more exciting. As a web developer you have spent more time in developing and building the process of a website that needs designing the outlook of the website, coding process etc..For many of the beginners the process of website development and making them live with all the technical terms like hosting process, DNS and others. But this process will be easy when you follow step-by-step procedures. After designing the process of the pages you need to add content in pages and need to make sure everything is perfect. The main step and process of a website is to make them live. Here making a website live means making your website visually appealing to everyone on the internet. If you are a beginner you may feel many confusions like what is the main difference between a domain and hosting? How to track user behaviour after making the website live? So here the good news for beginners is that you don't need to become a high tech expert to make your website live. In this article we will explore more about the processes that are required to launch a website. From the starting point of choosing a domain name and selecting a hosting provider and others.
Steps to make a website live
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- Choose appropriate domain name : First step to be followed while making a live website is to choose an appropriate domain name for your website. Here choosing the right domain name will help you to find out from the internet. While choosing a domain name you need to follow many important things like short names and should be connected to your brand. Choose extensions like .com or .net instead of using numbers and special characters. There are a lot of trusted registrars to register your website domain name like GoDaddy, Google domains and Namecheap. After registering and choosing an appropriate domain name you can connect it with your hosting.
- Choose appropriate hosting provider : After finalizing the domain name the next step to make a website live is to select an appropriate hosting provider. This process helps you to keep and store your website files and help to make them accessible on online platforms. As a beginner web developer it will be easy to choose Bluehost,Hostinger etc.. And don’t forget to remember that hosting providers depend upon your needs, storage capacity and your budget. Most hosting service providers provide 24/7 service.
- Connect your registered domain to hosting : After having both domain name and hosting the next step to make your website live is to connect them appropriately. For connecting them you need to update your selected domain's DNS setting. For this log in your domain registrar and identify DNS or Name Server Section and try to replace the existing name servers with the provided hosting company. After this process save and these changes will help and allow up to 24-48 hours for DNS propagation. This method will help you to link your domain name to your website files and make it accessible on the internet.
- Upload website files : Next step is the main step that you need to upload your important files to make your website visible to everyone. For this you can use hosting providers’s File manager and ensure that everything included in the file is correct or not.
- Analyse and check everything properly : As a web developer before launching a website you need to visit everything and need to check everything thoroughly. Check websites on both desktop and mobile for ensuring the working process of the website properly. It is good to check the used links, contact forms and buttons. Make sure that every page in the website is working properly and ensure the loading time also. If you find any errors at the last minute you need to fix them immediately before launching.
- Add SSL certificate for security measures : Adding SSL certificate will help to make your website secured and trusted. Having an SSL certificate in a website will help to encrypt data that has been exchanged between your website and visitors. So try to use HTTPS instead of using HTTP.
- Connect to different analytics for monitoring process : After checking everything and making live your website you can connect analytics for monitoring your website to understand how different kinds of visitors interact with your website. There are different tools for analysing user behaviour. For example you can connect Google Analytics for tracking your page views and traffic.
- Keep updates on your website : For maintaining good performance you need to update things to your website. Try to update regular content related to your business. While updating new things take care of taking backup. Always try to monitor the performance of websites to avoid unnecessary errors. Keeping regular updates helps to maintain and stay site more secure and engage visitors by maintaining a strong online presence.
In conclusion launching a website is complicated at the starting stage but doing and following correct steps like choosing appropriate domain that is related to your business, setting up hosting, uploading different files and securing data and performance of the website. As a web developer you can make everything perfectly and organized at the starting stage. Updating and going live on a website is the beginning stage of a business.
