Establishing a Website

SirNim

SirNim

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Original Poster
Hello folks.

I, SirNim, think that it's due time that I establish my very own personal/commercial website. I've created very crude GeoCities sites in the past, so I have a bit of experience, but I do think that by now, I need my own domain.

So I have two questions:

1) What is a good, cheap, reputable domain registration and/or hosting service?

2) What is a good piece of WYSIWYG webpage-designing software? I've only used basic Mozilla software with my GeoCities sites (because it was free and I had had to learn and use this particular type of software for school). I'm thinking Microsoft FrontPage, since I'm well acquainted with the Office suite. I know of Dreamweavers, too, but that may be a bit pricey and may be "too" complex for my specific needs. I'm not going to be doing anything fancy...yet.

Any comments or opinions will be much appreciated. :D Thanks!
 
Bobster

Bobster

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I use godaddy.com for domain registration. They have good prices and they always seem to have a deal going on (like 10% off the advertised price or something like that). Plus, a nice control panel to easily manage all your domains.

For site hosting, I personally use site5.com. There are surely cheaper hosts out there, but they have been very reliable for me. I have used a few others in the past with no major issues (like LiquidWeb.com)

I played around with Frontpage a bit a couple of years ago ... I would stay away from it if at all possible. It generated soooo much crap for a basic page ... it was a nightmare to do anything with the code later. Maybe recent versions have changed (I do not know) ... but you'd have to pay me a lot of money to use it again :)

I use Dreamweaver, and yes it is good, but it can be a bit overwhelming.

Hope this helps.
 
enough

enough

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Hey SirNim - I use e-rice.net - they're super cheap and very reliable. They have plain vanilla plans (just HTML) or plans that allow PHP and provide you with a database. The plans range in price from $5 a year to $30 a year (you read that right - per year)

check out the rates at www.e-rice.net




as for your question about an editor - I say it's always better to learn proper HTML than it is to use a WYSIWYG editor - then you know what's really going on and you have the most flexibility to make things look the way you want.
 
cmatt

cmatt

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not clued up state side, but i personally host my own web page using IIS then i have a dynamic dns redirect paid for. (www.no-ip.com) which keeps the redirect up with my changing ip. The fun and games starts with port forwarding through my router and also my firewall.

Pros are that i dont pay (much) for the hosting - im only running simple pages for university. Im soon to have my own uk address also :)

I personally like to hand code AND use a wysiwyg software (dreamweaver studio 8 ;)) mostly because when coding it picks up the syntax i want to use so i dont have to type out the whole thing :). But it depends on what you want to make yourself... as already stated learn html from www.w3schools.com or get a good book to read. Its quite simple to do, also learn CSS and how to link to one CSS file for all your page settings.

Also what you want to show...

my advice is DONT use framesets... instead use lots of div tags :)
 

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