Starting new website

sirrah

Hi just looking for some help with setting up a website, not sure what to use as a package, I like the look of this one, http://www.register365.com/sitemaker.html?PR=EG1.
Has anyone used this or any recommendations? I have my email address & domain already sorted, looking for something managable, looks good to the customer,user friendly & cost efficent

business bloomer

sirrah wrote: »

Hi just looking for some help with setting up a website, not sure what to use as a package, I like the look of this one, http://www.register365.com/sitemaker.html?PR=EG1.
Has anyone used this or any recommendations? I have my email address & domain already sorted, looking for something managable, looks good to the customer,user friendly & cost efficent

I use Google Sites, which gives me free hosting as well. Joomla and Wordpress are good but I prefer a simple manageable site builder.

Trojan

If you're building a site for commercial purposes then I'd recommend going with a CMS like WordPress or Drupal - they're more future proof than using a site builder tool from one of the hosting companies.

nager

Trojan wrote: »

If you're building a site for commercial purposes then I'd recommend going with a CMS like WordPress or Drupal - they're more future proof than using a site builder tool from one of the hosting companies.

+1 to this

willows

yes, if you use a hosting companies site builder it may do you for now, but when you want to add blogs, social media, ecommerce etc and then get a really nice design you are very restricted.

Get a list of what you think you need for the next 3 years on your site if money was no object, then search for a cms that fulfills these criteria.

Install it on you hosting.

Personally I see hosting site builders as a quick fix and for some they are absolutely adequate, for those sites that are 5 pages and a contact form and dont care about google ranking.

VMotion

sirrah, what kind of a site are you looking to launch i.e. what functionality if any do you want on it?

Site builder is not the best option out there. I would recommend WordPress as well.

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Trojan wrote: »

If you're building a site for commercial purposes then I'd recommend going with a CMS like WordPress or Drupal - they're more future proof than using a site builder tool from one of the hosting companies.

For a personal site would you use WordPress too? Is this the .com or .org domain?

what I don't understand with WordPress is that you need to find a webhost before you use the program...???

willows

For a website to be online you need the following

1. Hosting
2. Domain Name ( .com.org or whatever extension you wish )
3. Access to the website hosting via FTP.

Thats a minimum.