How can you use a web address to display a web page?

There are a few steps to using a Web address to display a Web page:

- Purchase a domain name, which is your Web address. There are plenty of domain name registrars on the Web. Before you do business with one of them, research them to find out which ones have failed to serve their customers adequately, and avoid them. If you have any friends who have their own domain name(s), see which ones they use and look at those.

- Get some Web space. There are sites (Web hosters) that provide Web space for free and sites that require payment. The quality of service you can expect depends on which kind of site you set your Web page up on.

- Write your Web page. There are plenty of programs that will create a Web page for you.

- Link the domain name to your Web space. Once you've done this, anyone typing in your domain name into a Web browser address bar will see your page.

Note that there are some hosting companies that do all of the above three. They make this process a whole lot easier, and often take care of most or all of the technical work for you, aside from making the Web page.

See the related links below for more information on building a Web site.