A tutorial of making websites can very well be written into a lengthy book as it involves a lot more than you think. This article serves as an introductory guide on how and what you should do to have or create your own websites. You should research and find more detailed information on each of the steps. You may or may not need programming background, depending on how you want to create the website.
Obtaining a domain name
A website starts at its domain name. Think of a cool domain name first, short, meaningful, preferably not a generic one if you intend for.com because that would very probably have been registered by someone else long time ago. Choose a domain registrar such as GoDaddy. It's the biggest domain registrar globally. After registration, they should send you an email confirming that you are the legal owner of the domain name.
Finding a web hosting provider
There are an abundance of them. In fact, we wouldn't run out of web hosting companies even after we have run out of mice. You can find something pretty decent to trust your website with at less than $10 a month. We recommend rackspacecloud.com and pair.com. After payment, they should be emailing you a bunch of important account details such as the login details of the web control panel that you can use to control your web hosting account, as well as the IP address, username and password of your FTP account that you use to upload your website data / files to the server.
The hosting control panel should be easy to use and both of the providers I recommended above have detailed tutorials on getting newbies started. Otherwise if you have gone with other hosting businesses, chances are you will be using a rather popular generic server control panel called cPanel.
The first thing you need to do in the control panel is to add your domain name to the hosting system and change the name servers of your domain name to that of the hosting account. It's all about authority delegation. After you have finished both steps, you should be able to type in the domain name address in the browser address bar to access your website, albeit an empty one simply with a list of files in the document root directory.
Create some web pages and upload it to the website directory
You may need to take a few courses on making web pages with easy to use IDE such as Dreamweaver or Expression Web. After creating the web pages and testing them on your local browsers, you are ready to upload them to the website directory on your hosting account (hosting server) via FTP.
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