A website enables you to communicate with like-minded individuals or potential
clients on a worldwide basis. If you??™re a creative talent of some kind, you can use a website
to showcase your portfolio, offering online photographs, music tracks for download, or
poetry. If you fancy yourself as a journalist, a blog enables you to get your opinion out
there. If you own or work for a business, creating a website is often the most efficient
means of marketing your company. And even if you just have a hobby, a website can be a
great way of finding others who share your passion??”while you may be the only person in
town who likes a particular movie or type of memorabilia, chances are there are thousands
of people worldwide who think the same, and a website can bring you all together. This is
perhaps why the paper fanzine has all but died, only to be reborn online, where development
costs are negligible and worldwide distribution is a cinch.
In practical terms, a website exists online all day, every day (barring the odd hiccup with
ISPs), which certainly isn??™t the case with printed media, which is there one minute and in
the recycle trash the next. Distribution is less expensive than sending out printed material
??”a thousand-page website can be hosted for $10 per month or less, but sending a
thousand-page document to one person (let alone a thousand or several thousand) may
cost more than that. Likewise, development (particularly corrections and updates) is often
significantly cheaper, too.
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