As students across campus spend more and more time online, it is increasingly important that you find a way to connect with your hall residents, social group or organization in a way that matches their habits. If you don't have a website yet, what are you waiting for?

Websites are great for communication, image hosting, file sharing, blogging and generally keeping everyone up to date. Additionally, web technology now allows even the least tech-savvy computer users to quickly and easily update their own web sites.

Most campuses offer some means of hosting a web page or two on the college website - often getting this set up involves meeting with the IT department, learning about the online editing system used by your school and building the page. In many cases, this process can actually be simpler than building your own website.

On the other hand, if your campus makes it difficult to add pages to the school website, or if the options available don't meet the needs of your organization, it may be time to find your own web domain and hosting package.

The first step in building a website is to decide on a domain that is available. Register.com offers tools for searching for available domain names. Once you've found a domain, the next step is finding a hosting service - this is where all of your online files are stored, thus making them available and visible on the web.

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There are countless articles and resources online and at your campus for building a website, but a quick search for website templates or blog templates will lead you to all the tools you need to build the ultimate communication tool - and impress all of your organization members as well!