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user7645
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Hi, I want to build a personal website for a hobby. This is personal and not to generate any income. Is it possible to build a free website and use a .co.uk domain I have bought? I have built a free website with weebly but it won't let me use my domain.
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Yes, but you will need hosting for it, which may cost a few pounds depending where you hosting
A quick search shows these https://mobirise.com/ not used it or http://netobjects.com/html/free-website-design-software.html used this, works OK but is "old fashioned"
You design & build on your PC, then upload using FTP to your web hosting spaceEight out of ten owners who expressed a preference said their cats preferred other peoples gardens0 -
Depends why you want a website, but if you are wanting to learn to build them, you won't learn anything by using one of those free website builders. You should learn html and css, then if you want to make it interactive then php, python or go for example, and prably a little javascript (NOT java).0
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You should be able to set your .co.uk domain to forward to the weebly website, but this will be in the domain registrar control panel, not weebly.
Visitors will see the weebly url after forwarding.A kind word lasts a minute, a skelped erse is sair for a day.0 -
Hosting is required, though it's possible to get limited free hosting.
Once the hosting service has been set up, you can point the domain to it.
Rather than using Weebly, I'd suggest using the site building tools provided by the Hosting service, whatever they happen to be.
https://www.hostinger.co.uk/free-web-hosting
Other free/cheap hosting is available.0 -
You can point your domain wherever you like, so if your Weebly domain is myhobby.weebly.com then go to myhobby.co.uk control panel and set it to forward to myhobby.weebly.com.
Then whoever visits myhobby.co.uk will see your Weebly site0 -
Thanks all, I bought my domain through netcetera0
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Unfortunately I would need to pay a yearly subscription to Weebly be able to access the DNS settings required to point my domain.0
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Unfortunately I would need to pay a yearly subscription to Weebly be able to access the DNS settings required to point my domain.
"You can point your domain wherever you like, so if your Weebly domain is myhobby.weebly.com then go to myhobby.co.uk control panel and set it to forward to myhobby.weebly.com."0 -
I’ve tried to do that. But I need the name server I think from weebly to enter onto the website where I purchase the domain?? And weebly don’t tell me what that is. The only way of being able to do this seems to be entering a name server?0
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I think you're right. From a quick Google it sounds like you can't point a domain at your Weebly free site.
For posters above, I think (not a huge expert on this) that you don't normally get the option on domain registration to use a URL based redirection, but only the DNS records.
You could put together a free URL redirection, maybe, by obtaining a free hosting service, pointing the domain at it, and then setting up a URL redirection to Weebly on the hosting control panel.0
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