Consideration when planning for small Business Online

I'm still new at doing web hosting my web site so I'm just giving my personal opinion i came across in this post. I can easily summarise into 2 main consideration:

1. Objective / Objectives you plan your business online
2. Money involved

Objectives

Are you planning for a brand new product ? Which most of the time people are not. If your idea, services or product are currently existing in the online market, make sure you create a better or at least comparable to your competitors. Before you even start creating your website, browse through the search engines, either Yahoo or Google and look for similar website to generate ideas, this will create a platform in your head on how to start create your website.

Money involved

Usually when people planning for online business, they are looking at lowest possible cost (I even thinking of FREE at first). Certain cost are unavoidable if you're looking for fast publishing to the web. Firstly your domain name, look around there are lots of FREE sub domains hold by lots of companies in the world. I strongly suggest to sign up one of them (preferably not those popping ads) and test the website you created and post it online. In the end you think is good enough ? Trust me, get your own domain name is only at few bucks per month, its worth it.

Secondly, you need a web hosting area. It will be FREE again if you host it using your own home computer, end of the day companies provide web hosting at few bucks per month again, its worth it too. Usually when you subscribe, get those where they provide online tools to help you design your website. For me i prefer down loadable software and FTP up, its still a personal choice.

My favorite recommendation are:

• Yahoo small business - Slightly above market price but provides you with domain name and lots of online tools and guidelines in helping you get your website publish online. Not forgetting they provide you with unlimited web space too.
• Xsite Pro - Extremely powerful web design software that helps you create web pages in shortest time and comes with inbuilt FTP to publish them online