I want to improve my website. I have 2 domains, thousands of pics and I can update and maintain a site. I would love to find a guy that KNOWS WHAT HE IS DOING!! to build me a site that is video friendly, has a forum and members can post pics. i am willing to trade one of my t roadsters, a 4door, or an a tudor body for the site being built. i can provide a nicely built frame and custom metal work as well . It kinda depends on the caliber of site built.. Jim
gaaaahhh, why do you have to be on the other coast. I'm sure I could have my girl build this for you using her Mac.
ha ha ..sounds like a job my wife would do....shes finally got my site www.monkey-inc.co.uk up and running bless her monkey
Jim, I think maybe you should list some sites that you like the looks, layout and workings of, so people can see and say, hey I could do that. Setting up a forum is nothing special really, I've got a couple of sites with forums running myself, some have a photoalbum too. Video's (YouTube) can be played inside the topics of the forum, just like here on the HAMB. Making a site 'looking' good is another thing, and that's where factor 'time' usually comes into play.
One of the things to consider is that the site and board are going to maintained. Do you already have hosting as well? I have two web developers that have been workign with me on a few projects that I am working on. I wouldn't mind working out a deal on this. Any pics of the body?
Careful with a forum, if you get 40 or more people on many hosts (and certain forum programs) and they will force you to upgrade. It can get expensive very fast. Not to mention maintaining a forum can be a h***le. I sympathize with the "knows what he is doing" part. I got out of doing them years ago because of being undercut by hacks. I have tried to find someone decent to takeover the few sites I run with no luck so far (I absolutely hate web work). If you have the time, it is really not that difficult to do yourself. I would advise you to download Vbulletin (same forum this place runs), and get VBAdvanced for the front page. This will help you knock out a site very quickly and have a forum that integrates into the front page. You could be up in as little as a weekend start to finish. Do not be fooled by free or low cost forum programs, spend the money and get a good one. One way or another you will pay, either for the program (Vbulletin or similar) or in hosting fees (the others are quite inefficient and ramp up your hosting fees quickly). In the end VB is very difficult to beat in terms of operating costs and ease. Pictures can be hosted on it same as here.
A real host will not penalize you for having 40 or more people on it, neither will a quality forum program.... Doing it yourself with no experience really doesn't get you a professional site. I think that may be what he's after... And don't be fooled by Visual Basic based programs, they tend to have a higher TCO with maintenance and patches and security issues, get a real program with PHP and a real database (MySQL or Postgres)...
What's this "40 or more forummembers" stuff you guys talk about? Why would a webhoster care how much registered members you have on your forum? Webhosting is based on monthly bandwidth and webspace. For only a 'few' bucks per year you can have your own domainname and certain amount of webspace and monthly traffic-limit. Forum-software (phpbb) can be downloaded for free, photogallery-software is free. I wouldn't pay a dime for those kinda things myself. Or you guys talking about specific forum-webhosters perhaps? In Jim's case, I would get some decent webhosting plan and install some kind of Content Managing System with all those items already installed.
You could get off real cheap by setting up a Yahoo group and linking to it. It's free, you can have pictures, files and polls, and it emails a daily digest, etc. I say to make a nice site (I've done a few), and use a Yahoo group for your forum and link to it. It gets the job done in a pinch, and it's easy as hell to maintain and administer. Something to think about, anyway. ~Jason
I have a site. it is www.jimsibley.com.I am fairly happy with it. i also have sibshotrods.com. i am not to happy with its layout. I would like to have 1 site that can be accessed from iether address. I would like to know how to exchange links with fellow hambers. I would like a portion of the site to be interactive. I mean i would like people that I sell stuff to the opertunity to post updates and pics of the projects they get from me. It would be great if the site was video capable, and I might even edit a 5 minute video weekly of stuff we do here at the shop. I have some video editing skills, and I can do some maintence on a site. i would just like it if it were built the way I want it.i am also on myspace and would like to utilize it to get to my site as well.
It sounds like you would like to integrate the two sited together. Pretty easy. It also sound like you'd be happy with a little WordPress and some CSS for content management and consistent visuals. A good pic gallery. You can use You Tube to embed the video an entry. I'd have a few questions about your hosting plan. Is PHP available? MySQL? Bandwidth restrictions? The initial set up is gonna be the hardest, but using the right technologies you can make it east to maintain.
$17.99 for commercial sized account with 5 GB traffic flow a month. That email's on my business machine at work, but pm me if interested. Front end contains photo gallery, forum, cl***ified section and much more. I maintain a couple of sites and have built several though they're not flash/bang sites. I've used many different hosts over the years and the folks at the above are non-intrusive, good product people. Used go-daddy for about ayear and hated the monthly calls at home trying to upsell me on something.
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