How to do a GOOD cheap website

[feorag]

Originally Posted by Mez

FRONTPAGE!?
nobody uses front page anymore, not even the IT crowd in the MS basement of china im afraid.

Excuse me!!! I take exception to that comment! There is nothing wrong with FrontPage as a means of building a website, if you do not understand html and do not want, or have the time to learn it. It has served me very well over the last 7 years and I am very happy with it.

Just because you build websites doesn't make you the absolute expert!

I said that the downside of a free site would be the adverts, but it's still an option if you are starting up and haven't got the cash to lay out at the beginning, you can always pay later and have an ad-free site. Labmad asked for ALL info about setting up a good CHEAP website and that's what I gave him.

[purejurrasic]

Just goes to show that there are many different ways out there.

basics are... you need web space, domain name and design software.

Different hosts (web space providers) have different options, most linked to yur isp or free space will have some kind of limits which may well affect what you can do, but if its a bog standart text and photo site, then all shoud be fine.

Domain names can be brought from £5 upwards but are often included in the host offer.

I use dreamweaver to design sites, but frontpage is ok I guess, just watch out to make sure your host supports frontpage extensions, or lots of you fancy design may not work.

[labmad]

Thanks for the help guys......think I might take a closer look at the Mr Site one......seen some done this way and look sound and exactly what I'm after too

cheers

[Mez]

Just because you build websites doesn't make you the absolute expert!

Haha! im not an expert and never claimed to be, and never will claim to be!

[Trice]

I'm sorry, but i have always said learning the language and being able to code an entire website from notepad is always an accomplishment and makes you feel good about what you've done because you know how it came to be made.

[ViRMiN]

Notepad? Trice surely you mean 'vi'!?

[Trice]

Originally Posted by ViRMiN

Notepad? Trice surely you mean 'vi'!?

Actually.. I don't use vi.
i use notepad2 or kate :P

[reptile king]

but am spasticated in the way of computers thanks for the good ideas

[Ssthisto]

Originally Posted by feorag

There is nothing wrong with FrontPage as a means of building a website

Except that it throws proprietary code into the site that not all web servers or web browsers are compatible with.

Learning simple HTML code is no more difficult than learning BBCode to post on a forum like this.

[eeji]

i read an HTML book (borrowed for free), wrote the site using Notepad (free), and it gets hosted by my ISP as part of my monthly subscription, so no extra hosting fees.
I'm tempted by a .co.uk for £1.99 pa though!!

this is my freebie site: :: Ians Vivarium - Reptiles ::

good luck!


**edit**!!! .....or if you can put up with adverts, theres always freewebs.com