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quote:gonzomania Posted - 04/04/2004 : 12:13:19 PM
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One more question, for the guys who have their own websites. Was it hard to do and did it cost much?
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No.
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Not much.
OK, OK, you probably want more info than that. You want your own website, here's what you do:
1. Head over to
www.godaddy.com and register a domain name (that's the
www.what-ever-you-want-to-call-your-website.com thing). It'll run you $8.95/year there, or if you insist you can pay NetworkSolutions $35/yr. for the same thing. I thought so.
2. Find a hosting company. A what??? Go to
www.hostsave.com where you'll get a full gigabyte of web space for $8.95/month and all the email addresses you could ever want. A gig of server space should hold almost every picture you'd ever care to share of your PT, your family, your dog/cat/parakeet/iguana/wallabee (hi Tommy!)/goldfish/hamster/horse/hermit crab/whatever, a couple of video captures of that time you cut down the big tree and crushed the barn, or that record 1/4 mile time you ran with Stage 2 and a 3" racepipe. Plus a little.
3. Now comes the tricky part. You gotta figure out how to build the website. For beginners, if you know Microsoft Word you can build an acceptable site using Microsoft FrontPage, about $165.00. If you know HTML you can clean up all the junk code FP writes. The nice thing about FP is that it has a handy dandy little "publish" feature that puts everything up to the web server of choice (refer to #2 above and make sure you selected "FrontPage Server Extensions" - which is a no cost option). Macromedia Dreamweaver is another good choice for web design (actually, it's a GREAT choice) but the learning curve is a bit higher, as is the price; about $365.00.
Yeah, that about covers it. Oh.....I suppose you could hire me to build it for you, but where's the fun in that???? This forum is about people with a "can do" attitude. Change your own oil, install your own cat/back exhaust, paint your dash, invent a better intake, publish your own website. Go on, you can do it.