Starting upa website can u help?

robert_harper_2000

Hi there my girlfriend wants to start up a website and she has brought a domain name from ukreg.com but doesn't know what to do next?? can you help! We are both novices so please can you walk us through it!


All Advice Appreciated

Cheers

amcluesent

Hmm, well if you are looking for a simple site you need to -

1) Get a host for your web-site. Your ISP will probably offer this for free, at least for a very basic set-up (i.e. no database for the web-site).
2) Create the web-site content as a collection of HTML & image files. Lots of programs will help you create web pages (Dreamweaver being the top-end, your domain company may even offer an online wizard to knock something up).
3) Publish all the content (using FTP probably) to the web host
4) Use the administrator services provided by the ukreg.com to make your domain record to refer to the location where the web-site is hosted.
5) You have a web-site!

geordie_joe

Next she will need some web space, if she doesn't already have it.

You can pay for space or get it free, either way it will cost to transfer the domain name to the space.

What sort of web site does she want? For basic ones free space usually does, but if it is for ecommerce she will be better off with paid hosting.

After that she will need an HTML editor and an ftp program. There are many free ones around, but it depends on how skilled she is.

robert_harper_2000

Hi im his gf and im so confused! lol! thanks for your responses I want a very basic site which allows me to upload videos and receive payments etc. I think i might need you to simplify your explanations lol have you got any links.. how do i transfer to get a website and how much will it cost?

Thanks You


Oh and i am not too hoe on HTML so could use a hand with that aswell!

amcluesent

>allows me to upload videos and receive payments etc.<

IMHO, if you are planning an e-commerce web site that takes on-line payment (presumably credit cards etc.) you should be talking to a professional web-designer and hosting company to get some quotes to set this up.

geordie_joe

Hi Robert

The first thing to do is tell us which ISP your GF is with, it may provide free web space that will be suitable.

How many videos and what size will they be? Free web space is usually very small, so if she is planning on uploading a lot of videos free space may not be enough.

How are you planning on taking payments, or have you not got that far yet?

robert_harper_2000

I'm thinking of uploading several little 5 min movies weekly and maybe the payment might not be so important asmaybe i could make my money back via advertising! What is ISP and GF? These are the names i am dealing with if it maybe one of these:
1.UKReg.com
2. Nominet


Are they these?

geordie_joe

Hi Robert

GF is your girlfriend and ISP is your Internet Service Provider, Tiscali, AOL, BT etc.

Do you, or your GF have a paypal account? Paypal payments are really easy to set up, paypal creates the code for you and you just paste it into your web page.

Don't rely on advertising to make you money, it won't. You need a lot of visitors before you can make money advertising, and getting people to visit your web site is a lot harder than setting it up.

robert_harper_2000

We are with Tiscalli and we do have paypal account! sounds like a great idea!

What is next?

geordie_joe

robert_harper_2000 wrote:

We are with Tiscalli and we do have paypal account! sounds like a great idea!

What is next?

First thing to do is go into Tiscali forum http://www.tiscali.co.uk/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=65

and ask how to direct your domain name to your free tiscali web space.

They are pretty good in their and will tell you if it can be done, and how to do it.

Also start creating your web site. This is done on your own computer using html editing software, do you have any?

Just posted the question on Tiscali forum for you, so if you visit tomorrow you have the answer.

robert_harper_2000

wow thanks for your help i think my bf has dreamweaver somewhere but i'm not too sure how can i start now?

thanks again