I was thinking of doing a webpage of my project as I slowly plod along. Any suggestions on good host sights. I know their is google, yahoo ect. I need one that is user friendly. Todd
Hi, I used freewebs for www.speedandstrip.co.uk very easy free if you want and cheap if you want no banners etc...
Well it is way OT , but here goes. go to webmonkey and read their tutorials, then use godaddy or geocities, easiest way to begin.
i use yahoo for my site www.dirtsarcade.com i pay $8 a month and have no pop up banners or any of that ****. another plus is the payment is made on my regular phone bill so no extra checks to write. just in case anyone cares my site is my other hobby. custom made arcade games. my machines play every arcade game you can think of from the 70's,80's,90's, and some from 2000's till now all on one machine. every machine has more than 5,500 games on it.
why should you have it easy when I had to struggle to learn this ****? I used the "included" web space that was offered by my ISP, till my web page got too big, and I now have it hosted for about $100/YEAR, and I have a real domain name, etc. http://www.selectric.org/ There are lots of options...good luck! it's fun to have a web page, and you can do your own little part to show the world what you're up to. Plus when you visit people you can screw with their computer...set their default browser home page to your own web page edit: cost is per year, not month
OK..I went thru this not to long ago...best price and easiest... www.1and1.com they do it all...register the domain name....host the site...email addresses...even free software... as low as 2.99 a month
A hundred bucks a month????!!! What did you do *buy* a server? You can get great hosting for around $10 per month if you look. As for the OP: go to webmonkey, learn the basics of coding, get 1st Page from Lavasoft (it's free), & a free FTP program from Freewarehome.com. You can use your ISP for hosting - they offer free hosting for homepages (if they don't find a better ISP). Whatever you do don't fall into the WYSIWYG trap - ESPECIALY FRONT PAGE!!!. They are *not* the right way to biuld a website. ~ Paul aka "Tha Driver" Since I gave up hope I feel much better.
No, i just made a typo, it is really only $100/yr.....$7/month for hosting, $15/yr for domain name registration. sorry for the mistake.
Whew.... well that's better. Had me worried there for a minite. You'd be surprised how may folks pay outragous amounts for webpages & hosting. I knew of a dentist that paid 7 grand for his 8-page website - I could have built it for $700 & made money. I was offering hosting for a while but it got to be more of a h***le than anything else. Still I may do so again in the near future: I now have space for 12 websites in my hosting deal & I only need four. ~ Paul aka "Tha Driver" Giggle Cream - it makes dessert *funny*!
You can get your domain name here for about $8 a year. Then point it at your free space that came with your ISPs account. Or any other free space you want to use http://www.namesecure.com Jdee
You ISP should have alotted you some space. I downloaded a FTP client and started mine. It's really pretty easy. AS long as you don't get too fancy. If I can build one, anyone can. Geocities.com is a good hosting place, It's free and they give you an ***load of space.
For relatively easily making a web page and publishing it, Mozilla Composer (part of the Mozilla suite, not Firefox) works ok. It has an FTP client built in. And the code it produces even p***es validation.
I made my own on Yahoo Geocites platform... and I'm far from being a computer whizzzz. It was fairly easy, free, quick, free, and it works fairly well, did I mention FREE? You have to put up with one popup to the right, so i designed everything where you can still read most of the content on the left of the popup. Link below
Hummmmm got me looking cause i want my own domain name and last i checked it was a lot more expensive. Also i have web space with comcast and ive been using netscape to make my pages for years its a no brainer and works great. Dave
My ISP provider allows me 10 mb of webspace as several others have said and use Netscape composer to do mine. You can use a free ftp called coffe cup which I use. They are not hard to do. I like doing our webpages....jimmy
I've been using cpanel; kinda slow, but works okay. But I got to check out the mozilla composer; thier browser rocks! BTW, it's been a while since I updated site... wonder how much has been outdated. And since everybody's plugging his web host, I'll plug mine: John at 2serveU.net gave me the hookup at four bucks a month. Lots O' free tools & stuff. I can do php and sql stuff if I ever learn what that is. And he was pretty cool about not immediately shutting my website down when I had a major (double my month's allotment in one week) bandwidth overage. But I did upgrade the account after that. -bill
GODADDY.com hands down for hosting- dirt cheap - Ive had to use their customer service and they actually ***IGN you a personal Customer rep in case you have issues! As for building the site-you can use Front Page- isnt hard to use at all for a basic site. I learned from someone else- its pretty used friendly. Just DONT use frames- its bad for the search engines. Id be glad to help you in any way I can- I created the following websites: http://www.bearingburners.com (and all the personal pages of our members off the site) http://www.famous50s.com and maintain our shop webiste (listed below) as well as created the personal 56 Chevy Page on our shop website ANything I can do to help-lemme know
If you want something super-easy and super-cheap (free), set up a blog to do***ent your progress at: www.blogger.com There are templates you can choose from, and it took me just a few hours to get one setup. Updates are easy too (but I have been a total slack-*** with mine). And the blog-style format lends itself to showing progress, since entries are grouped by date/month/year/etc. I got the idea from another HAMBer, so I can't take credit. You can check mine to get an idea of the format: http://www.kustom53.blogspot.com/ Good luck. -murph
Pleasepleaseplease don't use FrontPage... The HTML-code that program makes is **** and unnecessary large... It's even worse than putting a TPI'd SBC in a 32... After I've been shafted twice by some smalltime sleaseball webhosting guys here locally, I'm now renting a large chunk of serverspace and do my own "BigBlockMopar"-webhosting and domainname-registrations on the side. I agree with the remark mentioned above, it sometimes is more h***le then fun, but I do it mostly to help friends of mine online with a website.
GoDaddy ****S. Front Page ****S WORSE! I've had dealings with both. STAY AWAY from Front Page: I could write a book about how badly it ****s up the code! I don't have time for that so take my word for it. I've had to re-do clients' sites that were built with front page & it was just eaiser to re-write the entire code than to correct the code that front page wrote! PLUS: it codes ONLY for Internet Explorer! The pages usually don't display worth a **** in Mozilla or Opera or other browsers. Nothing like someone who dosen't know what they're doing to give advice. ~ Paul aka "Tha Driver" You talkin' dirty or hep?
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