domain name registration

domain name registration

this blog is in relation to my article about my attempt to use joomla for my website development.

after reading a lot of materials about website development, which i think is too much for me, i am still not sure which tool i will be using in building my site.

however, as what i've read, aside from the knowledge on website development that is needed in putting up a website, i still need a lot of things to consider. i will tackle in this article on how i plan to register my domain name.

after researching and browsing through the net and reading several articles about domain name registration, i learned that godaddy.com indeed had a lower rate in terms of domain name registration.



i used their search facility in looking for available domain names. luckily, there are available domain names that i can consider when putting up my website.

i just need to deposit the needed amount on my debit card so i can purchase my domain name. however, i'm not intending to purchase it yet until my website is up and running. i just hope that the domain name that i had in mind is not yet taken when i am going to purchase it.

new to joomla

i was glad that my boss gave me her support when i told her that i'm planning to build a website for our office. i cited to her the advantages of having our very own website. however, we have no personnel who has the capacity and ability to build a website, the task of building the site was assigned to me - with no background, whatsoever, on how to build a website.

with no background on website development, i read several resources on html, css, the do's and dont's of web development, etc. however, it took me a lot of time to understand the intricate details of building a website from scratch, hence i looked for other resources to "simplify" and reduce my learning curve. that was when i stumbled with nvu (a freeware wysiwyg editor). i also tried microsoft frontpage since it was already installed in my office pc.

i was overwhelmed with too much things to learn in order to build a website - particularly in template designing, color harmony, and layout - even with the use of the wysiwyg editors that i've mentioned above.

with lots of options and lacking of focus, i asked several friends from other government agencies who were in-charge with their office web development. a friend suggested to use joomla because, according to him, joomla is easy to use. since then, i busied myself reading all the materials that i could get my hands into. i relied on online forums (forum.joomla.org). i also downloaded all the tutorials that i could find to help me build our office website. i read about the user's manual of joomla 1.0.11 as my basic reference.

there are tons of information that i had gathered during my online research regarding web development using joomla which overwhelmed me (again!). however, i finally refocused myself when i read about the tutorial on creating a school website using joomla (a sample chapter of the book about joomla 1.5) to be published by www.compassdesignes.net. i also read about organizing contents with joomla at the same site.

i learned a lot from that tutorial since it gave information that i could use in developing our site, such as organizing content, creating "sections" and "categories," "drop down" menu using css, using forums, and many more.

i hope to publish our site once our central office will assign a subdomain and grant a webspace for our site.