cheap website

saoirsetouch

Ok I am looking to get a website but I have little or no funds. A friend told me you can get one up and running for as little as €150 if you know hhow. Well, I don't know how and I do have the time and patience but not sure about the know how. Where do I start to research this? Any ideas would be great. thanks.

quaidox

you can get a .com website up and running for less than €20 per year at www.doteasy.com, with 100MB of space to play with.

unnameduser

you could also check out www.digiweb.ie Their hosting comes with a free website builder. Probably your best option given the tiny budget.

tba

how many people do you expect to visit it?

Random

unnameduser wrote: »

you could also check out www.digiweb.ie Their hosting comes with a free website builder. Probably your best option given the tiny budget.

Best option? How's that then? Many websites offer similar.

saoirsetouch wrote: »

Ok I am looking to get a website but I have little or no funds. A friend told me you can get one up and running for as little as €150 if you know hhow. Well, I don't know how and I do have the time and patience but not sure about the know how. Where do I start to research this? Any ideas would be great. thanks.

€150 for what? What exactly do you want this website to do? What is it for?

scange01

What's the website for and how complicated does it have to be?
I have to set up a website for college and was looking for a subject to do it on...

Mr. Walker

Try http://42webdesign.com/ web sites are from as little as €100.

galwayguy22

I have a host with 5GB space and 300GB bandwidth per month with MySQL turned on for €10.

Domain name for the year, €10.

Tools to develop a website: Free.

galwayguy22

Mr. Walker wrote: »

Try http://42webdesign.com/ web sites are from as little as €100.

It shows too.

yoyo

If you want a free WYSIWYG tool to creating websites, Kompozer is the way to go

Nick

snappieT

galwayguy22 wrote: »

It shows too.

Jesus. That's shocking. They're getting €100 for that? I really need to get into the low-end web design business.

Form input buttons as menu navigators. Amazing.

yoyo

If you really want a basic brochure website, you can download and use open source templates from Open Source Web Design, these templates are open source and usually conform to HTML/CSS standards, so you are free to use them and modify them, doing so in a decent text editor such as Notepad++ is easy enough. If you want a more advanced site such as one users get logins, publish new material through a back end etc, you can get open source CMS (Content management system) such as Joomla or Drupal. These two solutions have many "Add ons" you can get to add additional functionality, Gallerys, Forums, etc...

Nick

Jonathan

snappieT wrote: »

Jesus. That's shocking. They're getting €100 for that? I really need to get into the low-end web design business.

Form input buttons as menu navigators. Amazing.

Agreed.


I feel I'm being ripped off by this crowd by not publicising my webdesign skills.

LowOdour

Mr. Walker wrote: »

Try http://42webdesign.com/ web sites are from as little as €100.

That is shocking....Im not the greatest at design sites but that is beyond a joke if they are charging people.

Anyways,OP!
More description would be helpful. Are you developing for yourself or someone else?

You can get a free domain name here.http://www.co.cc/.
This is not ideal but it saves you abit of cost just to get it up and running. Once you have that done, you can look at getting a proper .ie,.com etc domain

yoyo

LowOdour wrote: »

That is shocking....Im not the greatest at design sites but that is beyond a joke if they are charging people.

Anyways,OP!
More description would be helpful. Are you developing for yourself or someone else?

You can get a free domain name here.http://www.co.cc/.
This is not ideal but it saves you abit of cost just to get it up and running. Once you have that done, you can look at getting a proper .ie,.com etc domain

http://42webdesign.com/aboutus.html

Their transition year students, with obviously no training in usability or consistency, using standard push buttons for navigation is the most ridiculous thing though, its not as if coding nice CSS buttons is difficult, you can even copy CSS code from a open source template and integrate that into the site

Nick

cossworxenergy

In my opinion www.letshost.ie are exellent. I used them to make my own site and have recieved exellent feedback. Simple web building tool you just login to there page and design and edit your site also get a load of email addresses and storage. I paid €140 for the addition of shop page capabiliteis. which i can sell stuff on. Think its a great option for the novice. Basic with out shop is €70 euro. Also theyre servers are **** quick too.
Visit my site which i made from it if you like. Details in my contact info.

drunkmonkey

cossworxenergy wrote: »

Visit my site

drop the flash intro, i'd say your loosing over 90% of your visitors straight away...no need for a paypal logo either, your not selling anything..

Jonathan

I have no flash.

I get a 404 when i got to the html version.


Lost sale. :P

cossworxenergy

Fair enough flash into i was thinkin of droppin anyway. 90% of visitors lost dont think so. the stats show different. Paypal logo is there so customers can pay their invoices!!! . Selling electrical services ament I . Also I had items for sale there but removed them because of a legality concern. Got sent to london all expenses paid too through the website to a tade show. I think i didnt do too bad!!

saoirsetouch

crossworxenergy, thanks for the advice and the link. I had a look at your site and it is similar to what I am looking for. New to this whole web thing so it will be a learning curve. Thanks to all who offered advice I am a little wiser now.