I am thinking of setting up a small website to have information in the form of pdf manual's ( less than 30 full pages or in word format which ever is less size ) and provide a reference to others.

Can anyone tell from experience how i go about doing this from beginning to end? Is it i purchase domain name, find a host and upload the html and log in to maintain? or am i missing something? Can anyone recommend a good website to purchase the above from?

Congratulations on your decision to mark your presence online!!

There are two principal steps to make your website on the internet and registering/booking a domain name is the number one.

A domain name builds the address of your site and can end in . com, . net, . org, . info, . us, . biz, . tv and further.

Directly afer you have registered your name, you will pick a web host (2nd step). The web host is the guts of any website as this is where you build and publish your pages, build purchase fillings, insert service and preserve your site.

In order to choose the right hosting plan, you鈥檒l need to consider a few things:

Design

How was your Web site designed? For example, if you designed an ASP or ASP.NET Web site, you'll need to find a Windows hosting plan. If you have a Web site that uses CGI or PHP, you'll need to get a Linux hosting plan.

Traffic

How much traffic or how many visitors do you expect monthly? The more visitors or traffic you expect on your site, the higher the bandwidth you will need.