Domain names / building a a website
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fairweathertuba
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Domain names / building a a website
I want to register a domain name, I've never had a website before but I want to build one now. So how do I begin?
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Dan Schultz
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Re: Domain names / building a a website
There are several hosting companies. I use I-Power. 'bout $100 a year gets you pretty much unlimited bandwidth and storage. They have built-in web editing tools but I sill use Microsoft Office Front Page. I don't recommend Front Page since it is very limited and not supported any more. But... unless you want a bunch of 'whirley-twirly' stuff, it does a very reliable job of handling text edits and pictures.fairweathertuba wrote:I want to register a domain name, I've never had a website before but I want to build one now. So how do I begin?
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Current 'stable'... Rudolf Meinl 5/4, Marzan (by Willson) euph, King 2341, Alphorn, and other strange stuff.
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fairweathertuba
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Re: Domain names / building a a website
Thanks TubaTinker,
Nowadays, it seems all things begin with Google, soooo, I'm googling and reading reviews and will go from there. Building a site doesn't seem to involve any HTML, like in the ancient cave man days of the 90's, now it's all GUI"s and drag and drop! Woooo eeee!!! piece of cake ( I hope )
Nowadays, it seems all things begin with Google, soooo, I'm googling and reading reviews and will go from there. Building a site doesn't seem to involve any HTML, like in the ancient cave man days of the 90's, now it's all GUI"s and drag and drop! Woooo eeee!!! piece of cake ( I hope )
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SRanney
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Re: Domain names / building a a website
I recently registered a domain name with GoDaddy and found a 30% off discount code online. A friend recommended BlueHost as a hosting company (~$100.00, unlimited bandwidth and storage, unlimited number of domains that can be hosted on your account). I've only ever used FrontPage to write/edit HTML, but since signing up, I've decided to try Joomla!, an open-source piece of software that doesn't require as much HTML knowledge. Joomla has a steep learning curve, but is straight forward and the more time I spend with it, the better I get. (BlueHost's servers have Joomla ready to install.)
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