What do you do first? Design a website or register the domain?

**Vivi** · 02-24-2008 04:53 PM

I would like to design a website for a restaurant but I don't know what to do first. Do you first buy a domain or do you first register or do you first design the website? Can somebody please tell me how to do that step by step? I have found some helpful websited but they don't tell what to do first. Thank you so much for your help. Have a good day.

**meno** · 02-24-2008 05:00 PM

Buy the house before you decorate it

**Drop the phone** · 02-24-2008 05:02 PM

register it first

**Techie 2014** · 02-24-2008 05:06 PM

You register a domain, then you create a website under it.

**its me woo hoo** · 02-24-2008 05:11 PM

i would say register the domain cus you will want to have the name of your website to put on other adverts on small letters aswell and that way you can have people logging on as soon as you design it

**larystoy** · 02-24-2008 05:14 PM

Do you buy some Gas and then look for a Car.

The domain name and server space is going to cost about $100 per year.

If you get the Domain first and then find out it is beyond your abilities to develop the web site and contract someone to do it for you and if they are going to maintain it, quite often this person will provide the domain as part of his charge.

But you could do some research and if you found a really neat domain name that struck your fancy, then get the domain name tied down first.

**Rasmah.com** · 02-24-2008 05:15 PM

The domain first..

**Hubert S** · 02-24-2008 05:18 PM

First design the website.

**aresee** · 02-24-2008 07:02 PM

That's really like the chicken and egg. It doesnt really matter but if you have a name in mind I would do the registering first because any logo you design might reflect the name and if you designed the logo first and couldnt get the name you wanted might be wasted effort.