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lil_miss_sunshine Posts: 440 Forumite

12 April 2008 at 5:02PM in Techie Stuff

Where do i go for hosting and stuff? Anyone know any good, cheap websites?

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Widdy1961 Posts: 3 Newbie

12 April 2008 at 5:48PM

Hi

The easiest way is to get a Blog
https://www.blogger.com

Widdy

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aztec21 Posts: 134 Forumite

12 April 2008 at 7:56PM

Try 123-reg Instant Site.

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richt71 Posts: 946 Forumite

12 April 2008 at 8:01PM

Hostgator for hosting and godaddy/namecheap for domains unless you want .co.uk domains then as above 123 are good. Google them all for codes as you can get codes giving quite a bit off (I know godaddy have a code that discounts .com from $9.99 to $6.95!).

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PROLIANT Posts: 6,396 Forumite

12 April 2008 at 8:14PM

www.tripod.com

Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.
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jhp Posts: 2,342 Forumite

13 April 2008 at 2:06AM

Google Web Site Creator.

https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=pages&continue=http%3A%2F%2Fpages.google.com%2F&ltmpl=yessignups

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lil_miss_sunshine Posts: 440 Forumite

13 April 2008 at 11:52AM

Thanks

Im looking for these kind of designs...

http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=b83937289cf6056d36150bd3916475c4;www

http://magpie-store.com/

Anyone know any places that do these?

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nikzGfx Posts: 229 Forumite

15 April 2008 at 8:48PM

one.com on there basic 1000mb package, free for the year however a one off £9 charge for your chosen domain i.e xxxxxx.com./co.uk/.info etc

Smoke-Free since 15/11/08
:dance:

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chillsky Posts: 55 Forumite

16 August 2011 at 8:48AM

I personally use ukreg.com for domain names (no hidden fees) and hostgator for webhosting (6 a month).

If youo have no web development experience you may get lost in all the techno stuff you have to do such as nameservers, ftp etc.

Your best bet is to try something like google sites ( its free ) or even wordpress.com and start a blog on that site.

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Owain_Moneysaver Posts: 11,393 Forumite

16 August 2011 at 9:51AM

lil_miss_sunshine wrote: »

Thanks

Im looking for these kind of designs...

http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=b83937289cf6056d36150bd3916475c4;www

http://magpie-store.com/

Anyone know any places that do these?

Craftster forums is based on Simplemachines which is free software. It comes with themes or you can download or create your own theme. Craftster blog is based on wordpress.

There are numerous other forum and blog software you can install to run your site. Places like 1&1 usually have a wide selection that you can install semi-automatically. For example MSE Forums I think use a customised version of vBulletin.

If you wanted your own theme and artwork creating you'd probably pay several hundred pounds to a graphic artist in India for a simple project.

If you find a site you really like there is often a link at the bottom to the site builder/designer.

A kind word lasts a minute, a skelped erse is sair for a day.

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Chimpofdoom Posts: 806 Forumite

16 August 2011 at 11:37AM

My OH's website is hosted by 1&1 (along with various e-mail accounts for the whole family). Her up and coming website is a wordpress site with a template that I'm modifying slowly (trying to learn php and not get confused with the programming language I use at work).

It's good, some of the templates are easy to modify, some are more difficult and some are nigh impossible (unless your a code monkey).

Easily controlled by the wordpress dashboard

:exclamatiTo the internet.. I need to complain about something!

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