HELP! I am buying a domain name for the first time, and starting a web site...

U am? LOL
I use this service, it´s new but really good.
[link to www.juniperavenue.com]

OK cheers i will check it out

I have found a place called

ZenNames.com
DOMAINS: $12.00/yr* HOSTING: from $6.75/mo.
(* $11.50 / 2 yrs, $10.50 / 5 yrs, $9.50 / 10 yrs


seems good but I am clueless

I use 1and1.com
$9.95/month, never had any outages

Salut!

Anders´AutoFellatio.org?

I´m not that flexible, u shd know that!

Cheap is nice but it´s great if your site is up almost all of the time. I had a pretty busy cartoon doll site hosted by [link to www.dominet.net] Never had any problems.

Some other sites i worked on are hosted there and so far so good.

Man yahoo all the way

2.99/yr for domain name

8.99/mo for 5gb storage, 100 email accounts, etc.

Or if you have high speed internet normally they give you free webspace (not much, like 10mb per website, i have cox and they give you 7 of these) then all youd have to buy is the domain name which yahoo is probably gonna be the cheapest and easiest.

Excellent!! I´m looking foward to checking it out.
Good Luck Anders

Thanks all, esp the yahoo, checking all out now

Hi Mr Nirum! I will be doing it myself so it will not be too whiz-bang at first...

do you have web page design software? such as frontpage?

if not you need to either buy it or get hosting that comes with web building software built in

If you have Netscape Composer, you can design all yourself without any difficulty or html knowledge.

Moonfruit is £5.99 a month - for that you can have up to 5 websites. Alternatively, it´s £1.99 a month for 1 site.
I use it: [link to uno.moonfruit.com]

thanks steve, 1.99 is cheep

Anders don´t use Frontpage, which I think you have ?

I can hack the hell out of your site via google if you use FP.

How many pages do you want on the site ? If only a few, go for cheap stuff, even free hosting.

Your ISP should host about 3-5 MB ? After that, go for a host that´s honest. NO site stays on the web 24/7, it´s impossible.

And use goooooogle ads too.

do you have web page design software? such as frontpage?

if not you need to either buy it or get hosting that comes with web building software built in


nope

i see yahoo site has their own free sitebuilder stuff, probably good enough to start with?

anders, do you have Netscape Composer?

Anders don´t use Frontpage, which I think you have ?


Hi Jonk, no, never bought it...u may be thinking of photoshop, in the end i did my book cover with damn, forget the name, came free for 60 days with my dell laptop



I can hack the hell out of your site via google if you use FP.



oops!!! scary



How many pages do you want on the site ? If only a few, go for cheap stuff, even free hosting.



just a few

mainly to host my book publicity, maybe 10 pages max


i quite laike the yahoo starter package, 9 bux a month but seems to come with a lot




Your ISP should host about 3-5 MB ? After that, go for a host that´s honest. NO site stays on the web 24/7, it´s impossible.




i use bt broadband, checking them out now but they are pretty useless so far, other than speed



And use goooooogle ads too.



ah yes, i will try and remember, cheers!

nope 607, don´t have any html packages so need a package that supplies one ideally

Anders, good idea to use Yahoo. I did for my biz, except I never went ahead with the www site. Yahoo email is excellent, and that´s why I paid them money. 1 gig mail storage n´stuff.

But I did buy the domains (two- .com & .au) from MelbourneIT.

If you use yahoo site builder stuff, you´ll be ok; but if you need prog´s, pm me. Don´t spend a cent on software just yet.

But Yahoo´s a good choice.





It´s 5:30 am here in Adelaide; I´m going to hit the sack ... the one with pillows. Not my nut sack BTW.

anders, the only bad thing about getting a host that supplies the web page building software is that they typially use templates and you are very limited in what you can do with the appearance of your pages

you could start out that way just to get it online, but you will want more control very soon


check out coffeecup, pretty cheap software

i haven´t used it in a long time though so i can´t say whether it´s good or not

i use frontpage and have never been hacked, but maybe i just don´t have anyone that is malicious enough to do that shit visiting my sites

Anders if the .com has gone try another name. Just because the org and net are there suggests that the .com is not a mega bucks organisation and you should not steal their name. If they are nice and not using it take it over with agreement. First rule should be karmic.

Second I pay for a host and can use 50 sites etc and they did the name for me. About 10 pounds a month and stats etc. (Simply.com) I just dont justify it. Getting a good Google listing (ie not page 1004) is more important.

I dont worry about hackers - there is only a script there and it is remote from me. (I think....) Good luck. Ah yes I was told my site is not user friendly and to get a designer (like the firm telling me this). My brother is in fact a brilliant lecturer in this UK and US. I prefer it to be my site and could not afford $2000 anyway.

Hi John, all - really good advice, GLP comes up trumps again - very much appreciated, I think I´m all set!

ANDERS, CHECK OUT GODADDY.COM YOU GET A DOAMIN NAME FOR $8.95/YR AND HOSTING IS ONLY $36/YEAR.

VERY RELIABLE SERVICE

cheers 125 all!

anders, have you announced the name of your book?

I´ve had godaddy, 1and1, yahoo, and a couple of others. Didn´t much like any of them (esp. 1and1) Yahoo sites are all cookie cutters, 1and1 is totally confusing.

juniperavenue is the best I´ve found so far.

just send email, it´s cheaper and besides nobody will visit your site.

deleting email is easier also, they see your address, they click delete.

if you really setup a site, try to make it firefox freindly.

Anders...

Yahoo registers domains for as low as $2.99 per year.

I have about 100 of my clients sites on www.space2burn.com - proven to be very reliable and amazingly fast response for tech support.

GoDaddy is a saturation of shared servers. Servers are often slow and tech responses are a waiting game.