D.I.Y. own free website

rosyposy

looking for a handy site to create own site, for free!Will basically be a gallery for a photographer,witha small bit of general info,and the all important contact details.

just basic, but not too elemental looking, believe you can copy the HTML, any advice? heard of a site but not able to spell it,jumlo jamlo,or am i a tad mad??:rolleyes:

Any tips HUGELY appreciated!:)

Anti

www.google.ie

rosyposy

am cautious of downloading programmes onto my laptop though,personal experience or advice from people would be a huge help:)

easyontheeye

Anti wrote:

www.google.ie

lmao

rosyposy

yep i know bout google:D , just greeted by a hail of sites,just lookin for a bit of direction

projectmayhem

if you're on eircom you already have 20mb webspace. i'm sure most of the other ISP's do the same. you can use that, get a .tk forwarding domain and away you go.

as far as designing goes, use google and look for open source templates, there's loads of them.

easyontheeye

http://www.freewebspace.com/ any use?

easyontheeye

projectmayhem wrote:

get a .tk forwarding domain and away you go.

pretty nifty i never knew about them

rosyposy

cheers for replies,any advice on HTML copying?i stick it onto notepad,put in my bits,but does not work....am i doin somethin stooopid:rolleyes:

easyontheeye

rosyposy wrote:

cheers for replies,any advice on HTML copying?i stick it onto notepad,put in my bits,but does not work....am i doin somethin stooopid:rolleyes:

try using an editor that highlights the code, tags etc at least you might be able to spot something out of place

aidan_walsh

Yes, you're copying and pasting it into Notepad with no understanding of it and expecting it to work.

Google some HTML tutorials, I recall the ones at HTMLGoodies being pretty good way back when.

Blowfish

w3schools has a load of tutorials on the basics.

byte

I think the program you were thinking of was Joomla!, which is basically a premade website that can be customised.

However, you'd need hosting with PHP and MySQL for it to work.

brav

Yep, joomla is very handy, and I also now of a few hosting sites that have joomla included but none of the ones I know are free.

You could do what I did and host it yourself but you might need to know a bit more than the average user.

EDIT: If you do think about setting it yourself a handy program which goes well with joomla is xampp it installs apache web server and mysql and sets them up for you.

Cabaal

aidan_walsh wrote:

Google some HTML tutorials, I recall the ones at HTMLGoodies being pretty good way back when.

Google also have google pages, its basic but everyone got to start somewhere
http://pages.google.com