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Super Spiffy

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19 Jul 03

Super Spiffy

Nowhere special

Joined: 14 Mar 03
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19 Jul 03

i want to make a web site i have never done it beffore and was wondering,
a) which hosting site is best?
b) which is easiest to build on?
c) are they free? (if not i dont want to know)

i recon your the sort of people who would know, i just hope your willing to help.

orkyboy

Looooney Ork

A galaxy far away

Joined: 25 Feb 03
Moves: 8046

19 Jul 03

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Originally posted by Super Spiffy
i want to make a web site i have never done it beffore and was wondering,
a) which hosting site is best?
b) which is easiest to build on?
c) are they free? (if not i dont want to know)

i recon your the sort of people who would know, i just hope your willing to help.

Hello,

www.geocities.com
Geocities (I think)
Free (you have to be a member of Yahoo!)

Hope this helps

😉

maggoteer

The MAKIA

a bit closer please

Joined: 08 Dec 01
Moves: 4931

19 Jul 03

Originally posted by Super Spiffy
i want to make a web site i have never done it beffore and was wondering,
a) which hosting site is best?
b) which is easiest to build on?
c) are they free? (if not i dont want to know)

i recon your the sort of people who would know, i just hope your willing to help.

Are you just making a "personal" web site, ie nothing commercial?
If so, then find out if your ISP offers a space for a web page automatically - I think many ISPs have space to set up a web page as part of their base package, ie you may already be paying for such a space. Check with your ISP.

T1000

Joined: 29 Jul 01
Moves: 60863

19 Jul 03

Originally posted by maggoteer
Are you just making a "personal" web site, ie nothing commercial?
If so, then find out if your ISP offers a space for a web page automatically - I think many ISPs have space to set up a web page as part of their base package, ie you may already be paying for such a space. Check with your ISP.

What maggoteer mentions is about as far as I've got. 50Mb free webspace with Pipex, my broadband ISP. I've got a web addy and have managed to upload an index.htm file by saving an empty notepad file "index.htm" and using an ftp client to do the uploading. So I've got a luvverly blank white page so far. Full marks for purity, not so good on the ol' content. I'm suspecting I need some kind of html writery editory thang next but am like a lost sheep at the moment. Need a shepherd. Or just anyone who has advice on what to do next would prolly do. Shepherding skills are non-essential I would imagine in webpage building.

T1000

T1000

Joined: 29 Jul 01
Moves: 60863

19 Jul 03

'ello, amazing what a miniscule bit of effort can lead to - seems like I need to be learning how to use tags and all sorts of malarkey. SuperSpiffy, there's some info here that may help:-http://www.webdiner.com/webadv/index.htm

T1000

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Zak the mad boy

Stamford Bridge

Joined: 29 Jan 03
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20 Jul 03

Moonfruit's free for 2 weeks...

maggoteer

The MAKIA

a bit closer please

Joined: 08 Dec 01
Moves: 4931

20 Jul 03

Originally posted by T1000
.... I've got a web addy and have managed to upload an index.htm file by saving an empty notepad file "index.htm" and using an ftp client to do the uploading. So I've got a luvverly blank white page so far....

T1000

about 90% of the way there; the hardest part I had was figuring out that ftp thang!
And any old text editor will do the trick (even notepad) of writing html, but there are better choices out there, one's that can recognize and highlight different html tags in different colors and what not.

A page at the U Washington that has links to quite a few quick introductions to HTML can be found at:
http://www.washington.edu/computing/web/publishing/write-html.html

enjoy.
mag