Starting a Website? Who can offer experience?

[Elpelotero]

I want to start a simple website about Boogies. Who can offer advice? I have no experience in running/hosting, etc.

 

[Charlie]

I use a free program called Nvu that works pretty good for simple sites. I use a place called Dreamhost for my domain registration and site hosting... and CuteFTP for uploading all of my content. You might want to buy a book or two about website building design etc... if you want to keep it simple it's not too difficult.

 

[RR]

How extensive do you want it?

Do you want a static website just standard HTML?

Or do want a discussion bulletin board like this one.

I've seen many forums and they use the same format as here. So who ever build this forum software sure has a lot of user.

Do you want to manage it yourself coming out from your hard drive? You better learn the operating system LINUX.

If you want a static website, your IPS should have provided you with some storage (usually 100 MBs) and they should give you some information how to put up your own website.

Either that, go to myspace and put a website there. Very easy.

 

[Platypus]

Need more information.. do you want to learn how to do it or pay someone to maintain it? What content are you going to have?

 

[Elpelotero]

The website will have static data. Just text and pictures, possibly soundclips or short vids in the future.

I would prefer to keep everything free, aside from domain registration. However, I'm finding that what is free is basically crap because of limited disk space and bandwith. If you guys can find me something free that will work great, it'd be an awesome hookup. My budget is ridiculously tight right now. Grad school isn't cheap! I can't even afford new tubes. Otherwise, the cheapest and most reliable-looking thing I've found is 1and1.com.

The site will have a home page and no more than 5-8 other pages on it.
No discussion board. Perhaps in the future something a small one. But not now.

The content will be about Mesa Boogies (what else! lol).

I believe we use Bellsouth here for ISP. I'll see if they have storage space. I will manage and maintain the site myself. I'm not paying a programmer to build it.

 

[RR]

The website will have static data. Just text and pictures, possibly soundclips or short vids in the future.

I would prefer to keep everything free, aside from domain registration. However, I'm finding that what is free is basically crap because of limited disk space and bandwith. If you guys can find me something free that will work great, it'd be an awesome hookup. My budget is ridiculously tight right now. Grad school isn't cheap! I can't even afford new tubes. Otherwise, the cheapest and most reliable-looking thing I've found is 1and1.com.

The site will have a home page and no more than 5-8 other pages on it.
No discussion board. Perhaps in the future something a small one. But not now.

The content will be about Mesa Boogies (what else! lol).

I believe we use Bellsouth here for ISP. I'll see if they have storage space. I will manage and maintain the site myself. I'm not paying a programmer to build it.

Cool check into Bellsouth their site and see how much space they allow you.

There's a few website editors like Microsoft's Front Page, fairly friendly user to develop a website. Just upload the page and its images and that's about it.

I know you'll have very valuable information on MESA Boogies for us.

True, those "free" website host put all kinds of advertisement crap on your website.

When I was attending school, the school provided us with e-mail "[email protected] and we realize with our e-mail provided us with space and website space so our website was like "http://www.school/~studentName"

We had no prior website building knowledge and use web editors. This was in '95 where the internet was taking off. But we had to read about it how to go about uploading the page. But it was not hard at all.

 

[Platypus]

If you're not expecting much traffic I suggest building a cheap PC and running linux on it... or using an older machine you have lying around. You can throw apache on it and have a functional webserver for free. You can just point your router to redirect incoming web traffic to port 80 on the linux PC.

If you expect a lot of people to visit I would suggest paying for hosting but you can most likely get away with just using your ISP for now.

 

[Elpelotero]

If you're not expecting much traffic I suggest building a cheap PC and running linux on it... or using an older machine you have lying around. You can throw apache on it and have a functional webserver for free. You can just point your router to redirect incoming web traffic to port 80 on the linux PC.

If you expect a lot of people to visit I would suggest paying for hosting but you can most likely get away with just using your ISP for now.

I have my old laptop that my dad uses once in a blue moon. Are you suggesting I leave that thing running the whole time, like a server would? I'm not a tech savvy guy...you got me with all that apache stuff. My ISP gives me very little web space. I'd be able to have like 3 pictures and 2 pages of info. I think I'm going to go with hosting. I found some reliable ones that are about $40-50 a year. It's not too bad if I stretch it out over a year.

 

[RR]

I would first check out your IPS BellSouth. I few pictures and pages doesn't eat up much storage space.

First just get a feel how to create webpage and upload these files (webpage and images). It easy.

Remember you could always go to MySpace. I think that's really friend user.

If you plan to host your own site, you would have to take some courses unless you have the savvy to read up on it and experiment.

But I would take it one-step at a time. Expand as time goes on.

 

[Platypus]

If you're not expecting much traffic I suggest building a cheap PC and running linux on it... or using an older machine you have lying around. You can throw apache on it and have a functional webserver for free. You can just point your router to redirect incoming web traffic to port 80 on the linux PC.

If you expect a lot of people to visit I would suggest paying for hosting but you can most likely get away with just using your ISP for now.

I have my old laptop that my dad uses once in a blue moon. Are you suggesting I leave that thing running the whole time, like a server would? I'm not a tech savvy guy...you got me with all that apache stuff. My ISP gives me very little web space. I'd be able to have like 3 pictures and 2 pages of info. I think I'm going to go with hosting. I found some reliable ones that are about $40-50 a year. It's not too bad if I stretch it out over a year.

You're not going to want to run a server on your laptop. You also don't need to store the stuff on your ISP's space at all. Picture a junky old P3 PC with a decent sized hard drive in it.. you store everything on the PC itself and just use your normal internet connection. BellSouth isn't going to sneeze over a few simple pages being served up.

I can explain it in more detail if you wish but it sounds like you're going to go with some paid hosting at this point? Learning how to operate Linux and a webserver would certainly take some time if you're green on those subjects but I think that's 90% of the fun right there.. learning how something works and making it work for you.

 

[Elpelotero]

If you can explain it briefly, I'd appreciate it. I still haven't plunked down any money for hosting b/c I'm still deciding on a domain name.

The site will host several pages of dual recto info. and plenty of pictures. It will also have lots of pics and data on the C+. In the future I may upload soundclips of these amps for people to hear and compare.