Hey everyone.. I need some advice. I know alot of you have websites. Well it seems Yahoo Geocities Pro (the service I use to my personal website) is shutting down. They are transferring all Pro accounts to there Yahoo Web Service which is there professional business web hosting site. And it costs about five bucks more a month. They don't give you any other choices.. you either move and pay the higher price or close your account.
I've been with Geo Pro for the last six years and it makes me mad that they are first off all changing without notice and forcing pro users to upgrade to there business professional web hosting. So I am going to leave yahoo and find another web host for my website.
The problem is I don't know alot about HTML/Web page buidling and I used yahoo page builder when I built my website. It's a very user friendly webpage builder.
So what I need is a new web host site and a pretty simple web page building program for PC.
I'm going to do some research but I thought I would ask my geeky computer buddies here first for help.. Thanks
Hey Kenny,
I recomend using godaddy just the basic package. I think it 6 something a month and about 10 bucks each year for a .com domain name. Only 2 bucks for a .info. Yahoo is charging like 35 bucks per year for a renewal and that just sucks!
To edit webpages, I kind of like NVU with opensource web templates. It's a good solid free way to do it. Or a pirated version of dreamweaver if you're feeling pirate like. (wait, was that out loud?) But I've done nice stuff with NVU. It is WYSIWYG and/or code.
Some open source templates
http://www.oswd.org/
Yes, Yahoo has gotten greedy and priced themselves out of the market. I also suggest you look into Godaddy.com Most of these places have easy to use web site building tools too. Plus with things like Wordpress you really don't need to code anything anymore. Very easy to setup and use.
Thanks guys.. I'm actually checking out godaddy.com right now.. so much stuff.. The first Domain name I wanted is available.. whoo hooo.. now I'm checking out hosting deals... I'm learning so much about website and domains...
Here's an example of pluging in your info to a template with NVU. (It's unfinished ofcorse!)
http://rightonred.tv/
wow.. that's scary that you did that so quickly.. wasn't expecting to see my smiling face.
Kenny - if you do go withe godaddy there are some discount codes that many web sites offer. LIFE1 code will get you 10% off your order I think.
thanks rico.. I think I am going to go with godaddy.. got my Geekyfanboy.com domain name and getting the deluxe web hosting plan.
quick question.. godaddy.com asks which operating system do I want to run my website one.. Linux or Windows.. does it matter which one I choose as my PC runs on Windows.
I certainly would choose Windows.
Harry is telling me to go with Linux .. why should I go with Windows? They seem to offer more with the Linux package then the Windows package.
Just depend if you want something that runs on the server that requires one or the other. I've never made a page that wouldn't work with both. That being said I normally get linux.
Quote from: Rico on October 08, 2008, 03:19:44 PM
Kenny - if you do go withe godaddy there are some discount codes that many web sites offer. LIFE1 code will get you 10% off your order I think.
bummer that code has expired.. anyone else have a code?
Yes!
Use code:
Star1
Nvu is no longer being supported or developed unfortunately, if it was still being developed I bet they'd have fixed a lot of the bug issues and put in frames support. I use Dreamweaver MX 2004 which is a wonderful programme, except rather expensive :S - if you check out http://www.osalt.com/ you should be able to find an alternative that is being developed and supported still.
That's horrible! It was the best program..... I'm keeping it on my computer.
Quote from: AlanP on October 08, 2008, 03:57:09 PM
Yes!
Use code:
Star1
Thanks.. you can use multple codes on one order.. I found a code online to get 20% off my web hosting for a year.. and then your Star1 code got me 10% the entire order...
Thanks everyone.
okay that was painless.. thank you all for you help.. I am now the proud owner of Geekyfanboy.com for three years and I also signed up for 12 months of web hosting with a linux system. I got all that for only $75.00.. not bad. Now the fun part.. I have to see if I can transfer my info from one site to another.
Hi Kenny, good Luck with the site. I am looking forward to seeing it. Like Rico said, a lot of these Webhosts provide automated installs and control panels to install website programs like Wordpress, so it really is just a few clicks and it is installed. I think choosing Linux for the website to run on was a smart idea, as it seems most of the common webapps run on it, and generally the servers are more robust in support and performance. This comes from a person who supports Windows webservers ;) .
Good luck, and if you need any advice or help, I am happy to give some from my experiences with my own sites.
Thank you Jeff.. I will be taking you up on your offer of help.. luckily for me my hubby is pretty good at this stuff as well.
Does anyone know Dreamweaver? I just got Dreamweaver 8 and I'm trying to re-build my web pages.. the question I have is there a way to build a page that would expand to whatever size the person who is view it in.. right now it creates pages 800x600 but when you view it on a monitor that is large you get white on top and bottom... any help would be great.. thanks.
Did you use tables? If so, I think the sizes need to be in percentages rather than pixels.
Quote from: celestialteapot on October 10, 2008, 02:01:51 AM
Did you use tables? If so, I think the sizes need to be in percentages rather than pixels.
Tables and percentages are the way to go (from my limited experience) but they can complicate pages - I'm talking of raw HTML coding here, though. I've not used a tool llike dreamweaver.
*Web developer hat on*
To make your web page 'elastic' you want to encompass your page in a 'top level table' with a width of 100% (unless you want some gutter on either side, then you can make it less)
so we're looking at
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<tr>
<td>
*website content*
</td>
</tr>
</table>
Technically the 'right' way to go about this is to use divs and style sheets but to make life easier go with tables. I'm pretty sure Dreamweaver puts in absolute values by default so you'll probably have to edit the percentages manually.
Lemme know if you need any help, this is my job so I can probably help you bang some stuff out pretty quick. Sorry i didn't see this thread till now.
Harry has a question.. he's trying to set up Joomla on my computer..
if you try to run Joomla 1.5 local on your computer in the systemfolder /localhost... and you have at the same time Dreamweaver installed that creates for itself a folder /localhost... will that cause problems so that you can't get Joomla working...
Not sure why you are trying to run Joomla locally. I used Joomla for a long time as my main web page and it all ran on my host server. You just log in there and edit and do what you need. Usually your host can install it for you on your web site space too.
I wanted to be able to work on pages offline and when they were complete I wanted to upload to my server. Is this not possible?
For Joomla, you more or less create your pages in the application. It is more template driven, and also adding in Plugins and Components into the site. You could probably redesign the templates a bit with dreamweaver to get the look you want.
You might be able to install two instances of joomla on your webspace, your primary site, and then a dev site for you to do your testing and development. I know I had thought as well of installing Joomla on my PC, but there is a lot of work to do, as you need to Install MySQL, Apache and PHP before you can even start with installing Joomla. I spent weeks getting it setup, but in the end I never really needed it.
Quote from: StarTrekFanatic5 on October 16, 2008, 02:52:31 PM
I wanted to be able to work on pages offline and when they were complete I wanted to upload to my server. Is this not possible?
Offline? What is this offline you speak of??
--- Seriously as Jeff said, it's not really designed for that. Kenny you will find many popular web tools in use these days really work best online. It's the slow move to "cloud computing" or everything done online. Joomla, Wordpress, Blogger, etc. are all designed like that.
I'm going to need some serious help next year when i set up my podcast. (me being the main presenter and every week a guest host) But i have absolutley no idea what to do, how to get started and regarding making a web page, jeez i'm way out of my depth ha ha. I look at this site and the main page and i am in awe at Rico's work. Mine will probably look like bad scrap book. ha ha.