Computer tips.

Your name on the web.

Q.How do I make my own web page and use my own name for the web address?
A.If you don't want to use the free site hosting, page building tools and templates available on sites like Google Page Creator (http://pages.google.com/) or Yahoo! portal's Geo Cities (http://geocities.yahoo.com/) because you can't have your exact name for the address, you will need to do a little more work.

The basic process involves buying the domain name for your site, finding a company to host it (so people can get to it on the internet) and then building the site.Many website design and hosting firms have package deals that do most or all of it for you.

There are many companies that sell and register website domain names, including GoDaddy (http://www.godaddy.com/) Dotster (http://www.dotster.com/), Register.com (http://www.register.com/). On these types of sites, you can see if your name is available and register it there fora small fee. These types of sites can also usually guide you through the hosting and site-building part of the process.

Designing and building the site on your own may take some time if you are unfamiliar with the coding used on web-pages and other standard tasks like uploading them to a web server. Sites like http://www.2createawebsite.com/ and http://www.web-monkey.com/ have free tutorials on the process, and most book stores have many volumes on the subject of websites cretion.

-uncle Yong Chon Pin