Advice on website

sally0101

Hi. im wanting to make a very basic website but have never done this before and am not that good on this sort of thing. Does anyone have any recommendations for a very cheap way of doing this? I would want to add pictures and text and be able to update it. But of possible, the one thats the easiest to use.

I thank you in advance for any helpful advice. (No unfriendly or unhelpful comments please)

peteb23

Depends on what you want the site to do but if it's just posting stories and images then you could set up a free blog at blogger.com or wordpress (https://en.wordpress.com/signup/)

peterpan567

yep wordpress is great for free sites building, it can look like a real site, but if i was you i would take some wordpress online freelancer to do that for less money. you can edit that site by yourself afterwards.

mrmarble

You might also want to take a look at Tumblr - tumblr.com - it doesn't get much easier than this!

peteb23

One more option for you that I forgot to put in my first post: Google sites - http://www.google.com/sites/

loveandlight

If you do your own wordpress website does it mean your website has to go live on the internet for the whole world to see while you are putting it together? Or would you be able to hide it until you are ready to launch it?

mary1949

Try Moonfruit.com we did a wedding website for a family member in about 3 hours. I think we paid about £5 a month which included hosting and everything else needed.

JuniorDesigner

Can recommend Weebly, I know Wordpress is good but I've yet to use it myself and have used Weebly, really easy to use, drag and drop system, quick and simple to get you going!

pitkin2020

loveandlight wrote: »

If you do your own wordpress website does it mean your website has to go live on the internet for the whole world to see while you are putting it together? Or would you be able to hide it until you are ready to launch it?

You can publish pages as you want them to be live. Wordpress has plenty of functionality so even using the templates (free or paid) you can easily make it very different site to other sites to make it unique.

Plenty of hosting available for well under £5 a month, pick up a .co.uk domain and away you go!!