Hi,

A family friend has asked me to design a web site for her B&B business - mainly as a why to advertise it.

I have dreamweaver 4 and I am about to do a short course. I just want to know if someone can give me advice on the following points:

How do I get the designed page on the internet, pay a provider? Which is the best? I do not want any adverts etc on the page if possible. If some types in b & b for example and then her area, how do I ensure that her page comes up and near the top - does this vary from search engine to search engine?

If anyone can give me any advice on these point and anything else they think may be of relevance or pursueing - I will be very very grateful.

Many thanks,

Brendon.

The best and cheapest site for registering domain names is www.1and1.co.uk

For hosting I would personally recommend www.web-mania.com (Only £20 a year)

Then you will want to be able to upload your site...

This can be donw via FTP (File Transfer Protocol) for this I recommend SmartFTP which you can get free from www.smartftp.com

Also the best search engine you will want to get listed in is Google... You can list your site @ www.Google.com/addurl also you will need plenty of links from other sites pointing to your site...This way you will get a higher pagerank

More info... http://www.google.com/technology/

Hope this helps

-James

Adding to google, you should submit it to www.dmoz.com

Just some reading material that might help you.

HTMLGoodies Great for learning html and other web related information
SitePoint Article on PPC search engines A article on how to use PPC ads to increase traffic and search engine rankings

Just a little bit of reading that might help you, also check out other sitepoint.com articles as they are pretty good reads for when you need to learn about things.