So you'd like to have your own web page? Building a web page is not as difficult as it may seem. The first thing you want to do, if you haven't done so already, is to sign up for hosting here at Active Web Hosting. You will get your own free domain name, email and ftp included in one low price. You also will have room to grow as we include other features such as CGI and a database when you are ready to make your site more interactive. However, you don't really need CGI or a database to make a web basic site.

After you have signed up and your domain is online, your friends can go to your site by typing in your domain name in their web browser. However, unless you build your own web page, they will see a Coming Soon page.

Now let's get started with your first web page. All web pages are created using a code called HTML. HTML is easy to learn. It uses tags to define areas of your page, fonts, colors, images, tables, and the like. You can create HTML code in a plain text editor or a special editor designed to make creating web pages easier. You can learn all about these editors and how to create HTML code in our Create A Web Page Tutorial.

Once you have put together your own web page, you will need to put those files on your Active Web Hosting web server so that your friends will see them instead of the Coming Soon page. To do this, you will need a program called an FTP program. FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol. Basically, it's a program that will take the files that you made to create your web page and copy them to the web server. You can learn how to upload your web page files in our Upload A Web Page Tutorial. We have also have Setup Tutorials for many FTP Programs.

Now you can tell all your friends about your new web page! If you want to learn even more, check out our other Getting Started Tutorials.