Websites to earn online and web hosting

To be able to earn anything online, it is essential to have a website. You can use free websites like Geocities, but it will not be much good for business, will command not much respect, any you will be very limited with what you can do. You can start a blog using any of the various blogging platforms such as Google Blogger, Wordpress, Live Journal, Typepad, etc. Most of them have free and paid versions.

Blogger used to have free and paid versions until Google bought it over. Now it is all free. No paid versions. In addition, they now have custom domain where you can use your own domain for the blog and New Google Blogger can host it for you free. You can also choose to host on your own, in which case, you will have to get a web host such as Personal Website Hosting.

Wordpress also have a free and paid version and many have said Wordpress have better features than New Blogger. I have tried their free version and is definitely not impressed. They are much, much less generous than Google Blogger. I don't know about the paid Wordpress version, but I believe you need to download their software and MUST host the blog your self. No choice. You may then want to try Business Website Hosting.

For blogs, normally the blogging platform you use will offer their standard templates, but there are also many other third parties that offer alternative templates.

Blogs has it good points, but also have limitations. For business, you may want a normal website, not a blog. You can create the website using hard coding or use a WYSISYG (What You See Is What You Get) programs like Frontpage, Dreamweaver, etc. You will definite need a web host to host your website. There are templates for free and also some for which you have to pay. However, it you host with the Burton Hosting whose links are given above, they also offer website templates which includes Flash templates. The site says their templates will enable you to quickly create fast and high quality websites and are fully customizable.

If you plan to create a website to earn online, having high quality fast downloading website are very important. The first to create a good impression, the second to avoid potential visitors surfing away when your website takes too long to download.