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05-12-2007, 07:48 PM
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How to do a GOOD cheap website
Hi guys
I am going to breed leo's in the future, but will probably just stick to 2/3 morphs/colours, so am planning well in advance  How do I go about setting up a website to advertise my leo's, maybe looking at 6 page website or so, which will enable me to show prices, information, photos etc etc Would love one where I can control the pics that go on it, so if I need to change I can do it myself How much do you reckon it will cost too ALL info and help GREATLY appreciated  phil 
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05-12-2007, 07:52 PM
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you can get one easily for £35.00 for a year mate, do everything yourself so could change whenever you like. really easy to set up as well and quick. Make Your Own Website
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05-12-2007, 07:55 PM
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05-12-2007, 07:56 PM
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is it £2.90 a month after the year?
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05-12-2007, 09:28 PM
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There are loads of servers who will give you free website space up to quite a large amount, but you have to suffer the advertisements.
If you can use word, the easiest way to set it up (if you are not computer literate and can't understand HTML - which I can't) then use Microsoft FrontPage - it works like Word - you type your stuff and insert photographs - it's very simple really once you start. My own website has been done on FrontPage and is hosted by a free American server called freeservers.com and they'll give you 50MB of space for nothing. The address is Feorag Somalis if you want to have a look. When I was breeding I did pay them £48 a year to get rid of the adverts, but once I stopped breeding, I went back to a free site and it costs me nothing. Alternatively I do a website (again on FrontPage) for the wildlife sanctuary where I work, which is through UK2.net which costs £47.88 per year to run and again gives a huge amount of space and no adverts. That address is Home Page
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06-12-2007, 12:10 AM
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Ok, firstly,
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Web hosting, best web host in the uk is £25 a year. wont disclose who/where. get someone to make you a site who is a proffesional for a set fee - get someone who has reptiles who wont charge the earth. i do sites for under £100 if its personal - go to a pro and he'll do you at £20 an hour or £50 a page. Websites that are hosted for free for instance a freeserve site, will have pop ups or refined frames in html code that you cant change. any online editor will also have the same. FRONTPAGE!? nobody uses front page anymore, not even the IT crowd in the MS basement of china im afraid. Macromedia or Notepad is your best bet, unfortunatly macromedia suite costs £300+ and notepad is free....
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06-12-2007, 12:17 AM
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I'm afraid I use frontpage for the shop website and my personal website, used a professional for the CRA website and I don't think it was worth the money.
Download a free template if you're no good with design, open it in frontpage, edit it, add your pictures... upload it to a free server or your webspace provided by your host. I'm with Virgin Media and I get quite a large amount of personal website, easy to just upload the files with FTP and pay £2.99 a year or so for a .co.uk domain and you're away. That's the cheap way to do it... neither CWCorns - Christy Whatley Corn Snakes, Pogona - The Bearded Dragon or Reptile Cymru will cost me more than £10 ea for 3 years to pay for the domains and the hosting is free with my broadband subscription. I mean, I may not be the greatest professional in the world but they're easy to edit and I think they look at least browsable and certainly didn't break the bank.
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06-12-2007, 12:20 AM
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Learn HTML, Javascript, PHP, CSS etc..
W3Schools Online Web Tutorials is a start? HTML Goodies As for hosting i have like 4 different web hosting accounts (and i dont mean geocities or crap like that :P)
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06-12-2007, 12:37 AM
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At the very base level, learn xhtml. It really is very easy once you've looked at it briefly. Borrow a book from your library and work through it. You can have yourself a decent looking site with a few hours of work.
I use screem html editor which comes with my operating system. SADMOG - Southampton and District Moggy Owners Group :: Home that took me about 4 hours work in total to get it all set up, I do have a version which I tidied up and put content in but was too lazy to upload it. It was only a uni project. If you do decide to learn how to make your own site you can always feel free to give me a shout and I will guide you through. I did offer to make a site for free for someone on here but when I asked exactly what he wanted he shut right up and didn't hear anything again. In my opinion, the best way to start is take a sheet of paper and draw what you want the layout to be and then work out how you can make it look that way on screen. BTW avoid frontpage and other WYSIWYG editors - apart from dreamweaver, they can produce nice looking sites if you know what you are doing but theres so much hassle and re-coding that you might as well do it right the first time. Hostings not that hard to find. I've used dataflame in the past quite successfully, it was about a fiver a month for a www. .co.uk address, and I was perfectly happy with what I got from them.
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06-12-2007, 03:18 AM
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A few over the top suggestions there tbh!
I'm a web designer, and the best way to go about it (if you've never built a site before) is by designing your website in Dreamweaver. (You can download a trial version from adobe.com - that should do the trick) Once you've built your site, you need a hosting package (I use Dream-hosting.co.uk which is a tenner a year and advert free) and an internet domain (1and1.com do co.uk addresses for 1.99 a year). If you need any help, give me a shout! Mikey. http://www.reptileforums.co.uk/images/icons/icon7.gif Last edited by Mikey_C; 06-12-2007 at 03:41 AM..
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