Costs

Domain Name

The annual fee charged by the Registrar varies from $10.00 - $50.00. Automatic renewal is usually offered and several years can be paid in advance. You control the right to use the domain name.

Templates

Thousands of free Templates are available. However, a advertising link is usually required on on the page. The link back can be removed if a license to use the template is purchased from the owner. 

Hosting

In order for your website to show on the internet, it must be hosted by a web hosting service, A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to make their website accessible via the World Wide Web. 

Web hosts are companies that provide space on a server owned or leased for use by clients, as well as providing Internet connectivity, typically in a data center. 

The cost of the web hosting service can range from free up to several hundred of dollars a year. Most free hosting is undesirable due to the use of advertising pop ups. 

Blogging

There are several excellent blog hosting companies. Google has a great Blogger Program. It is free of charge and ad free. There is only a small link is at the bottom of the page. 

Blogger is an American online content management system founded in 1999 that enables its users to write blogs with time-stamped entries. Pyra Labs developed it before being acquired by Google in 2003. Google hosts the blogs, which can be accessed through a subdomain of blogspot.com. Blogs can also be accessed from a user-owned custom domain (such as www.example.com) by using DNS facilities to direct a domain to Google's servers. A user can have up to 100 blogs or websites per account.


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