Setting up your own website

[thehappychappy]

Originally Posted by lloydwatkin

As suggested above I'd go with something like mambo, joomla, or even wordpress (probably the easiest by far!). You can get eCommerce addin's for any of the above and best of all their open source (and free ).

Oh how could I forget about Wordpress, In fact just use deepstop :-) it already uses wordpress and its free from YD:-)


I divert my own domain traffic to my wordpress site on Deepstop.

If you type:
http://www.daviegow.com
into a browser, it just takes you to a framed version of http://thehappychappy.thedeepstop.com/
Easy to do and quick to set up.


Davie

[TeeJF]

My wife and I both create and update web pages with the same simple, intuitive software. We very, very rarely have to look at the help pages when we have used it. Hers is for her on-line shop and the one I administer is for our band website at: Jarrelook, the UK Jean Michel Jarre tribute band...

You can have a butchers at the sites if you wish, the Jarrelook one has our diving piccies on the links page (!) and if the pages are of the sort of level of complexity you want then I'd be happy to mail you a disc with all the software you need on it - assuming you are not in Outer Mongolia or the like of course.

We use:

for the basic page... AOLPress

for slightly more in depth tweaking... a package who's name eludes me right now (I'll let you work out why but I can put the software on the disk!)

for uploading... WSFTPE

Our web page host name also I can't remember, genuinely this time, but I can find out and let you know if you wish. They give us unlimited space and it costs pennies in the real scheme of things. You can also get a domain name with them rather than using the webspace your ISP will offer which almost always results in you ending up with a domain name like Joe.Bloggs.diving@freepages.fsnet.co.uk which lets face it is not really snappy enough for a business!

Have funnnnnnnnnnnnn...

M 'n TJ

[Okeanos]

I use Joomla, which can be daunting at first, but once you get the hang of it it's easy.

I'd go for the really easy route and set up a deepstop website/blog like Mr Happychappy. I've got one of them as well.

[rob.heeley]

Hi,

I suppose i'll get slated for advertising my self here, but I do Windows or Linux hosting with free .co.uk domain for £24.99 a year! Flat rate with no additional charges.

[Jay]

Originally Posted by rob.heeley

Hi,

I suppose i'll get slated for advertising my self here, but I do Windows or Linux hosting with free .co.uk domain for £24.99 a year! Flat rate with no additional charges.

Unlimited bandwidth?

[rob.heeley]

yes, unlimited bandwidth for all "viewable files" e.g. pictures, pages, documents or anything else viewable through a standard web browser

[Debs]

I recommend Dreamweaver 8 (Macromedia), I wanted to learn how to make a website so I offered to do my club's one

Canterbury Divers - BSAC 326

very easy to use and gives good results