Really dumb website building question

black-saturn

Thanks everyone.

So if I bought this:

http://www.mrsite.co.uk/

would it give me everything I need in one place?

Chippy_Minton

Yes, that gives you everything.

billywhizz

What do you want to do with the website? 150Mb from MrSite is not a lot albeit it's cheap. If you are planning on having a load of photos up you could eat through that quite quick. Where did you buy your domain name from?

Think of webspace and domains like this. If you bought a sweet shop it would be empty, you would have an address but customers would not be able to come in and buy anything until you bought stock and filled it up. The shop is the domain name, the sweets and the stock are the webspace. You need both for the shop to work and likewise your website (Does that even work as an analogy!).

earner

If you are looking for a budget of about that much, then I'd recommend MrSite as he does make it look easy, and everything seems to be there, although I don't actually have any experience of using that one.

esuhl

I agree - for the price it looks great, but 150MB of space, and a 2GB download limit per month may be an issue if you have a large website or a lot of visitors.

If you want to design the website from scratch yourself (without using the templates from MrSite), you can probably find cheaper webhosting.

black-saturn

Thanks. I kind of want to start small as a small sideline and hopefully build up as I'm going along and learn more. My boyfriend has offered to buy me this for Christmas to start a small business up.

esuhl

One important thing to ask is whether the domain will be registered in your own name. If not, and you decide to leave, they could hold you to ransom and demand a ridiculously high price to sell "your" domain to you.

black-saturn

I'm wondering also would it be possible to build a free site on say tripod.com which links to the site I pay for. So for example i would have a link on the free website which says 'Womens tops' and when you click on it it directs to the site I paid for with a shopping cart on it. Do you see what I mean?

martindow

If you want to run a commercial site then I think you need to have your own domain https://www.black-saturn.co.uk or whatever rather than free ISP web space. Google and other search engines are going to find and rank 'proper' sites more highly than ISP space. The shopping cart can be part of your site but the credit card will need to be on a third party site - visa, Mastercard, etc are much stricter about things than they were a few years ago.

I think you need a link to a site that sets out how to set up a web site (but not one that is trying to sell you their system!). Perhaps other posters can make suggestions?

Ian_W

black-saturn wrote:

I'm wondering also would it be possible to build a free site on say tripod.com which links to the site I pay for. So for example i would have a link on the free website which says 'Womens tops' and when you click on it it directs to the site I paid for with a shopping cart on it. Do you see what I mean?

I think given the previous discussion - going for a site with a shopping cart from the start is a bit like a learner driver taking lessons in a Ferrari! It's possible but not really recommended. Think about taking online payments and the security that needs to be built into that process, unless you're very experienced I personally think you're talking a professionally built site for that.

I've done a few holiday home letting sites and I wouldn't even consider it. If you're starting off in a small way consider your site as an online brochure to showcase your products rather than an online shop, at least initially.