Web statistics are a vital part of promoting your website.

On Internet it’s very easy to spend dollars on advertising and pay per click and be disappointed with results.

By using web statistics properly, you can monitor what works and what doesn’t.

Web servers collect logs of site activity but you need software such as great free product webaliser to monitor and interpret them.

Webaliser turns these ‘rawlogs’ into a helpful Html format. This tells you a lot of helpful and interesting things, such as:-

How many visitors does your site actually get a day and per month?

Where are they coming from?

The web or internet is an exciting place, but can seem very daunting to novice web designer.

You want to get a web site up and live, how is it done, and how can it be done cheaply?

Domain Names

The first step is to select a domain name, try and choose a name that is easy to remember, short, and if possible one that describes your website.

Nearly all obvious domain name have gone, so you may need to use your imagination!

There are many domain name registration services such as my own site www.discountdomainsuk.com on web. All domain names are created by Top Level Domain providers such as Nominet in UK so there is no great advantage in paying over top for your domain name. Look for a company that offers telephone support, e-mail only can be frustrating.

Web Hosting

Next you will need some space on web to publish or host your website. If you have a broadband or ADSL connection, you can use this to host your own site. It does of course mean that you can’t switch off your machine.

To point a domain name at a site hosted in this way you need to have a static IP address and look for an IP pointing option in your domain name registrars control panel. This is usually called domains Zone Records.