allan_peterson Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 Does anyone have any advice on building a new website? I am not very experienced in website building but I would like to register a website name and get started. There are sites like Freewebsite.com that offer templates to get someone like me started. There largest site is $8.95/month. Is it normal to pay a monthly fee for a website? I have heard of people paying about $9-10 per year. What about size? I would like to add many photo's for various events that I have taken photo's for so I do not want to be too limited with size. I will of course make sure the files added to the website are small to help reduce the size of the site. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Allan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hjoseph7 Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 www.easysite.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobatkins Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 It's a big subject but this might give you some basic tips - http://www.bobatkins.com/photography/tutorials/website/planning_website.html. It really depends on what you want to do. If you just want a gallery you can use a site like Smugmug, though I'm not sure they enable you to use your own domain name. It's simple, it's either free or pretty cheap depending on the services you want, it's reliable and you don't have to know the first thing about HTML or JavaScript or domain administration. If you want full control over everything, that requires a bit more work and knowledge, but shouldn't be beyond the capability of anyone who really wants to do it. A domain name will cost you under $10/year and good website hosting is available for $7/month. Many of the good website hosting services make lots of free software available and take care of all the installation for you. Look for one offering the "Fantastico" package. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Laur Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 Allan... you're confusing the owning of a unique domain name (which is something you have to pay a registrar for each year, and $10 or so year is the competitive rate) and the hosting of web content on a server somewhere. That second part can range from free (if you don't mind your visitors being subjected to other people's questionable advertising) to a few dollars a month to hundreds of dollars per month, depending on the sophistication of the site, the level of traffic you see, and the amount of storage you burn up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommyyearginjr Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 If you have a Google account, there are a few options you have for having a site, without having to learn a lot of code: Picasa web albums (http://picasaweb.google.com), for uploading and displaying photo albums. Blogger (http://www.blogger.com), Google's free blog hosting service. You can create a custom address, assuming its available (http://blahblahblah.blogspot.com, for example). A great way to start displaying photos and creating pages (AKA permalinks). Google Labs currently has a beta version of something called Google Page Creator (http://pages.google.com), that allows you to create static web pages from a template. Most services that I have dealt with that sell domain names allow you to point them wherever you want them, or you can buy web space and code your own site. Hope that helps. Best of luck with your new site! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommyyearginjr Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 By the way, in my previous answer, the blogspot site http://blahblahblah.blogspot.com was only an example I thought up from the top of my head. I didn't realize that it was an actual blog, until I clicked on the link after my answer was posted. Sorry! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAPster Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 Hi Allan. I suggest you get a copy of this book. Its perfect for answering the kind of questions you are asking. It takes you from a beginning point all the way up to 'intermediate' level website development. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/creatingwstmm/?CMP=ILC-MMh0me Creating Web Sites: The Missing Manual by Matthew MacDonald ISBN 10: 0-596-00842-2 | ISBN 13:9780596008420 The author is very knowledgeable on website development, and he walks you through the whole process, using easy to understand user-friendly language. Lots of good information here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmitchell Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 I made a completely free web site using just Google tools. <a href="http://christine.mitchell.googlepages.com/christinemitchell">Take a look here</a>. I'm working on writing out step by step directions so anyone can make their own web site for free. You do have to have a Google account, but that's free too. I should be done in a couple of weeks (I hope). If anyone is interested, I'll post a link to the directions when I'm done and you can give it a whirl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccommins Posted March 9, 2008 Share Posted March 9, 2008 Try betterphoto.com, I used them and quite satified. Very user friendly. You can view mine at www.carolcommins.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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