trying to set up my own website? cheapest way to buy domain name and host

Brassedoff

Wow lots of differences on here. We sent hundreds of companies to 321-domains.co.uk. They do all the global domains, plus with every domain there's free email accounts & up to 100 forwarding and one page customisable hello landing page as a temp.

Aas for hosting and website building software, a templates site that is the choice from over 500 sites, plus Facebook and moniker sites a only £50 a year.

The GU is easy, even a novice can do it.


Never been a fan of 1and1 as the email is difficult to sort from certain ports. Something a novice may have trouble with, 123reg is good, but the back end when it comes to splitting sub domains or indeed geo targeting sites have proven difficult for our code cutters in past years.

tomstickland

Gunstar wrote: »

Just out of interest, how many people that have replied are actually web developers? And how many have just cobbled something together?

As a non-professional are you really in the best position to be offering advice?

Top and bottom of it, if you built it yourself it will be poor, it will look bad, it won't work properly and you will ultimately damage your business by being tight with your money.

That depends on the ability of the person doing the work.

tomstickland

Oh dear, this thread went all over the place didn't it. I would say to the aggressive "professionals": let you work talk for itself. You don't need to argue on MSE about "morons" and what they get up to.

I wrote my own blog back in the early 2000s before I even knew what a blog was. I did it using a domain and hosting company. I wrote the files in html using notepad editor and viewed them in the browser. I learnt about html from the internet. I uploaded them via ftp (the windows browser will connect to ftp addresses).

I've been heavily involved in a wordpress site that looks like a standard website. It uses a load of plugins to modify wordpress and it was built by someone who doesn't do website development for a job.

If you want a basic site then it is possible on a DIY basis. The timescales might be longer than paying someone. Then again, I've seen a load of quite expensive websites that are mediocre at best (the owners told me how much they paid for them).