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  • 18-04-2006 8:03pm
    #1
    godtabh
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 23,243 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    I'm looking to setup a web page as a shop front for a business on the side. Its not gona be anything fancy. Just gona be a front page with contact information, discription of what I'll be doing etc.

    Is there any services providers that provide free hosting? Not looking for a lot of storage.

    Also do you need software to desgin web pages? I know nothing about it


Comments

  • #2
    quazzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,315 ✭✭✭quazzy


    Hi kearnsr,



    Get Free Webspace from your ISP, usually in the form of a tilda site
    e.g. http://homepage.eircom.net/~test
    Im pretty sure most if not all ISP give u some, ntl, BT etc..

    If you have access to MS Frontpage you can play around with that to create a basic web page

    or you can google around for some basic guides.

    or some nice ppl on boards could whip it up for you.

    Lemme know if you need any further help

    Q


  • #3
    godtabh
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 23,243 Mod ✭✭✭✭godtabh


    Grand will check out my isp and see what they offer me.

    Eidt: Just checked out BT Ireland Broadband and I cant see any mention of free webspace.

    Any other ideas?


  • #4
    godtabh
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 23,243 Mod ✭✭✭✭godtabh


    SpyMac

    Recommened by a friend. For all users


  • #5
    Blowfish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,112 ✭✭✭Blowfish


    I don't know about the webspace, but personally I wouldn't touch MS Frontpage with a bargepole, if your just doing one page, just use notepad and save yourself a lot of hassle.

    [edit] Though as Quazzy said, since it's only one page, if you ask nicely someone on boards might hack something out for you.


  • #6
    godtabh
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 23,243 Mod ✭✭✭✭godtabh


    Any one know a good link with code? I know funk all about it


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  • #7
    dionsiseire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,182 ✭✭✭dionsiseire


    what exact code are you looking for. a main page????

    if you paste this into notepad 
    <html>
<head>
<title> MY BUSINESS NAME </title>
</head>
<body>
<h1> BUSINESS NAME </h1>
<p></p>
<p>HELLO THIS IS MY BUSINESS TEXT THIS IS MY FIRST PARAGRAPH ABOUT MY BUSINESS</p>
<p> THIS IS MY SECOND PARAGRAPH ABOUT MY BUSINESS</p>
<p></p>
<p> PHONE NUMBER : 7777777 </p>
<p> ADDRESS : 27 my street </p>
<p> EMAIL : me@mymail.ie </p>
</body>
</html

    then you have a starting page. some text, a title 2 paragraphs and contact info.
    thats as basic as it gets


  • #8
    godtabh
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 23,243 Mod ✭✭✭✭godtabh


    dionsiseire wrote:
    what exact code are you looking for. a main page????

    if you paste this into notepad 
    <html>
<head>
<title> MY BUSINESS NAME </title>
</head>
<body>
<h1> BUSINESS NAME </h1>
<p></p>
<p>HELLO THIS IS MY BUSINESS TEXT THIS IS MY FIRST PARAGRAPH ABOUT MY BUSINESS</p>
<p> THIS IS MY SECOND PARAGRAPH ABOUT MY BUSINESS</p>
<p></p>
<p> PHONE NUMBER : 7777777 </p>
<p> ADDRESS : 27 my street </p>
<p> EMAIL : me@mymail.ie </p>
</body>
</html

    then you have a starting page. some text, a title 2 paragraphs and contact info.
    thats as basic as it gets


    Thanks very much. As I said I know nothing about this and I want to give it a bash and see how it turns out


  • #9
    Robot
    Closed Accounts Posts: 72 ✭✭Robot


    If you can use MS Word then I suggest using that for creating a quick and easy website. Just design a page as you would normally, then save it as a web page instead of a .doc page. It won't look amazingly professional but it should do.


  • #10
    dionsiseire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,182 ✭✭✭dionsiseire


    Robot wrote:
    If you can use MS Word then I suggest using that for creating a quick and easy website. Just design a page as you would normally, then save it as a web page instead of a .doc page. It won't look amazingly professional but it should do.


    if he starts in microsoft now he will never get good at making his website or fixing any problem

    www.w3schools.com is a great place to start out and understand what code ive just put up

    AND

    how to improve vastly on it


  • #11
    Robot
    Closed Accounts Posts: 72 ✭✭Robot


    Fully agree that if he wants to get good at it and learn about it then your way is the way to go. I just suggested it for a quick and easy fix if he doesn't want to spend that much time on it.


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  • #12
    **Timbuk2**
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 7,396 Mod ✭✭✭✭**Timbuk2**


    If you wanted a bit of help with the HTML or a bit of WYSIWYG then you could download Microsoft Visual Web Developer Express 2005

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vwd/download/

    Its mainly based on ASP.NET but you can choose just HTML and it will help you when writing code with intellisense for tags and all that, or you can use the WYSIWYG mode


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