Free website set up

lauhol1980

I'm hoping I'm posting in the right place!

I volunteer at a junior youth club for ages 4-11. We have secured a very small amount of funding to run a computer club alongside the youth club. The funding will be used to provide 2 CRB checked members of staff and to cover the cost of the hire of a computer suite in the local community centre.

I have asked the lovely people on the family board of any free educational websites they can recommend we use and they have come up with quite a few for us.

What I'm hoping you can help me to do is help me set up a free (and very easy to do lol) website for our Youth club. A website where we can put all the links to the website the children can use during computer club but possibly something we can use to publcise any youth club news etc. Does that make sense?! Basically we want the children to sit down at the computer, to navigate to our website, to then use the links etc there to navigate to websites we want them to use!

Hope all that makes sense:rotfl:

Thanks for reading!

TIA

ETA: Have had a little google and come across webs.com that provide free websites. Anybody use these? Or can anyone have look and see that its suitable for what I need? I'm really not very tech savvy! lol

Thanks again x

Anthonis

Well you gonna need a hosting and a free domain name. Well its better to have paid one. Also there are companies which provide free hosting, but domain name paid.
Wordpress and Joomla are free and easy to use CMS systems. So basically all you need to do is find good hosting with domain name you like. Setup usually takes up to 10 mins. And it will be left only to add content.

aidso

+1 for Wordpress. They will take care of the hosting and provide most of the things you have described above. There are plenty of websites out there that offer free templates to skin the website how you want it and various plugins can be added to allow them to share with Facebook etc..

lauhol1980

Thanks for taking the time to reply.

Will have a look at wordpress and joomla and see how I go!!

Thanks again, I'm sure I'll be back with more silly questions lol

JuniorDesigner

Weebly is a good free web builder also!!

lauhol1980

JuniorDesigner wrote: »

Weebly is a good free web builder also!!

Thanks for that. This and webs.com seem to be simple enough for me lol:rotfl: I really need it very simple! Not bothered about a .co.uk or whatever domain am happy with webs.com or weebly.com

However, I'm wondering if someone can ask another (simple no doubt) question. Looking at webs.com their free website builder offers 100mb bandwidth. Is this enough for 10-20 users to use the website at the same time? Sorry if I sound thick but I can use a computer basically, surfing the net and emailing etc but the rest is all like a foreign language to me lol.
Weebly says it supplies unlimited badwidth even on their free option so would this be better to go for?

TIA

Anthonis

100mb bandwidth

definitely not.
It all depends on how beg your website will be. I mean how much pictures, data and other stuff they gonna browse. So if gonna upload 1 picture of 2 mb, 10-20visits its already 20-40mb daily...
I would say everything from 5Gb/month is good for you.

lauhol1980

Anthonis wrote: »

definitely not.
It all depends on how beg your website will be. I mean how much pictures, data and other stuff they gonna browse. So if gonna upload 1 picture of 2 mb, 10-20visits its already 20-40mb daily...
I would say everything from 5Gb/month is good for you.

Thanks.

Right so if I'm reading it right weebly offering unlimited is definitely the better option.

The website will have a page of links to educational websites we want the children to visit, maybe a news page and/or upcoming events page, possibly photos (but theres the whole parents permission etc to worry about before that).

The website would be opened up on approx 11 computers for an hour 1 evening a week so children are able to just sit straight down at a pc and navigate to approved websites straight from our website but they will also be able to access and use the website at home during the week (those that have access to pc's at home) in between computer club sessions.

texranger

lauhol1980 wrote: »

Thanks for that. This and webs.com seem to be simple enough for me lol:rotfl: I really need it very simple! Not bothered about a .co.uk or whatever domain am happy with webs.com or weebly.com

However, I'm wondering if someone can ask another (simple no doubt) question. Looking at webs.com their free website builder offers 100mb bandwidth. Is this enough for 10-20 users to use the website at the same time? Sorry if I sound thick but I can use a computer basically, surfing the net and emailing etc but the rest is all like a foreign language to me lol.
Weebly says it supplies unlimited badwidth even on their free option so would this be better to go for?

TIA

almost not, if you want somthing for a youth club and for multiple users on the site at any one time then these free hosting sites like webs.com will not do.

your best option is a paid host ( you can get shared hosting from 99p a month depending on host and resources. most plans will have auth installers so you can install wordpress etc. with 1 click of the mouse.

texranger

katrinamoris2014 wrote: »

.co.nr domains can be registered free of charge on several websites, i agree this would be your best chance.

anyone will know by the tld if its a free one

registrars like fxdomains do specials like .info domains for $1.99 (approx. £1) a year.

also some hosts will give a free domain if you take annual hosting