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If you intend to create a website for business purpose or if you are ready to allot a bit of budget for your personal website, instead of opting for the various free options of online presence, then you should go for paid web hosts.

There are several different kinds of packages and options given by different web host service providers. There are so many, that it can be quite a daunting task for you to choose among them.

You can decide based on the following options.

• Technology
• Reliability
• Cost

Let us look at each of these option categories,.
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With an experience that ranges around four to five years, I have tried just about all options of free online presence in different categories, even if not all the ones with in a category. These options though, as I stated earlier are suitable for personal websites. If you want to get a business website, then I strongly recommend getting a professional hosting, a domain name and a proper website setup. (See my previous introductory post - Creating Websites - to know more).

But the following choices are good, if you just want a personal online presence and do not want to spend a buck on anything other than the time you spend on the internet.

Let us look at the options available in the following different categories.

• Personal Websites – These are websites in general. The will have a handful of pages or more that may have your resume/portfolio, or information and resources on your favorite hobbies.
• Blogs - These are like diaries. The articles are posted in reverse chronological order. The visitors can leave some form of comments on your posts.
• Forums – These are basically discussion boards or bulletin boards. These websites are, in a simple sense, the descendants of mailing lists or mail groups. More than one person can post. Posts are strung in threads. Usually, the latest posted thread will be shown at the top.

These are the broad classifications of things you can have as a personal presence online. Let us break down at each of them and see what options we have available.
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For all the aspiring pro-bloggers out there, you must have already read Darren’s post on future publishing. But many times, the post is in a state when it cannot be published and needs a bit more input before hitting the road. That is when we save it as a Draft. And quite often, if you are like me, things can go out of the hand, and you will end up with more of those links (assuming you are using Wordpress).

Wordpress.com seems to have added a new feature that shows all these Drafts in a neat tabular format (and in multiple pages if you have too many). This is a nifty feature, I will be waiting for them to include in the Wordpress engine. It will be very useful for me.

Via: Got Drafts? Filter.

Seems like not many have noticed but I could be wrong. Or I could be the only one among the net-savvy to still use Orkut for networking with friends.

In any case, my friend pointed me to a modest link at the Orkut homepage.

You can choose that ‘edit feeds’ link to add any feed URL. Once it is added, it comes as another link under the profile links.

It aggregates the content using the feed URL and conjures up a web page with it.

I am marginally excited though - I would have been more interested in a feed to my scraps. A feed to the scraps would make it much easier to keep track of conversations with your contacts.

It was when I was telling the story of my journey down the cyber lane, that my friend suggested I write few blog posts that would help newbies create websites of their own. Hence, all you veterans, stop saying anyone can do that, and do suggest something more that would help those who do not know.

From the moment I started contemplating about giving a short post on setting up a website, I came to comprehend that the simple question, ‘how do I setup a website’, does not have a simple answer. It involves various parameters, and thus let me help you sort those out.

There are many parameters that decide on the approach of setting up a website, but there are two basic question that would help you arrive at the approach.

What is the purpose of the website?

Answer this, and pretty much most of the options gets answered. The two basic purposes are personal websites and business websites. Of course, there are many gray areas, but it should be easy to choose between the two.
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