Hello,

I have my domain, I just need help/someone to do the website.

I signed up to http://www.names.co.uk/index.html to host it. I paid the $60 odd US whatever it is, but now I have no idea what to do.

3 Email accounts to be set up in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 is something else that's needed, as I plan on using this website for a business Idea.

Anyone able to help?

I'll pay well

Chris

Step 1: Think about what you want your website to be? Online shopping? A blog? Photo galleries? Videos? Another forum (cause that's what the internet needs). Think about what content you want to show everyone.

Step 2: You can use a variety of "out of the box" products that are a webpage ready to go, or you can customise and build your own from scratch. Many products are available for this.

For "out of the box" blog and CMS (content management system) sites - check out Wordpress, Joomla or search for any other CMS application.
For building your own - you need Dreamweaver, MS Expression, or CSS/HTML/JAVAScript skillz.

Step 3: Put up your website and start populating it with information, pictures, video.

Step 4: Wait for girls to queue out the front of your place, dripping with anticipation cause of your m4d l33t webdev skillz.


If you're totally strung up - you can write/do whatever you want in Word 2007 (maybe 2005 aswell?), and "Save As" a html file. Then upload the content and the html file to the root of your site - presto. Instant webpage.

Also - here's some light reading to get familiar with the basics of HTML: http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Guide/

Enjoy.

Thanks for your response :-)

I deal with Insurance Claims, i've been doing it for 6 years now, so that's the direction i'm wanting to head. I just need a site explaining my services and experiences to potential clients.

Anyway, i'll respond more in depth after I sleep off this drunkeness

Off to a good start

If you just want a basic static HTML page, theres any number of CSS themes you can grab which will look pretty and professional. One site to get you started is http://www.freecsstemplates.org/

Most of them are stuffed full of information on how to get them working, though its fairly simple (just link to the style sheet in the static HTML page and the theme/layout is done for you - all you add is the words!)

recoveryclaims.co.uk

That's the domain I own. I now have no idea what to do.

http://www.names.co.uk/index.html

I have registered to that site and paid the $60 for them to host it... How the fuck do I change the look etc of my website?

Someone wanna do it then give me an explanation in English on how to change/add text, pictures, links etc?

ok, I just changed the nameservers to the host ones.. I hope that's right..

The domain registar (names.co.uk) purely looks after who owns what domain name, and where visitors should go to find the content.
The domain host (in your case, also names.co.uk) purely looks after serving up content to visitors.
You need to make sure that your domain register points yourdomain.com to your domain hosts name servers, so the hosting company receives the visitors heading to yourdomain.com

In your case its easy as names.co.uk is also your hosting company. You need to find out what their name servers are (they almost always follow the naming scheme of ns1.names.co.uk and ns2.names.co.uk) and enter those in your domain name management. Then you need to set up a hosting plan on yourdomain.com - its different on pretty much every host, so your kind of on your own here. But it should be as simple as clicking "add domain" and entering yourdomain.com and a few other basic questions like user/pass that you want to use.

Once thats done, you edit your content by uploading HTML files to your hosting company. This is usually done over FTP, or SFTP. Sometimes they'll have some sort of site builder software installed that lets you do it online in real time via a WYSIWYG editor, but its preferable to edit your work on your home computer with something like Dreamweaver or even Frontpage, then upload it when its finished.

If you dont know how to edit HTML, its time to recruit the services of someone who does. Fresh graduates (from either TAFE or UNI) will typically be your best bet as they'll do the work more cheaply and it will generally be of a good standard as they'll want to use it as a portfolio to get a "read" web design job.

Otherwise, hire a noob from boostcruising but dont expect it to be good

Cheers for the help :-)

I'm getting Dreamweaver and am going to have a play to see if I can work it all out.

Thanks again :-)

Hello,

I have experience in creating websites and I would be happy to get your site up and running for you.

I could offer you two services

A) Upload a free template of your choice and customise it to suite your needs (cheap solution)

or

B) I could design you something professional and unique and implement it into a custom template driven CMS.
You would have a username and password to login to your website and update your pages easily.

If you are interested please PM me.

P.S I designed and own the website in my signature.
P.P.S I just graduated from Tafe with a Dip. of IT

can i sugest adding me to MSN, i can help explain what to do and what not, free of charge, but if needed, i can do you a cheap set up, with hosting and everything (have my own hosting company).

MSN: anti.christ.rider@gmail.com

You have a reseller account, not a "hosting company"

You mean that 486 in his mums basement isn't a server farm? preposterous.

When i did mine i went with justhost.com.au they have an inbuilt website builder which is prettty easy to use and looks quite professional..
though boost prob isnt the site to find website builders

Online web builders and WYSIWYG editors are a bunch of crap unless you are only editing page content (even then it is a bit sketchy). Best plan is to get someone to do you up a nice custom site design with a simple content management system behind it.

I offer web design and development (HTML/CSS/PHP/SQL/ASP.NET) so drop me a PM if you need something put together.

lol @ every man and his dog being a 'hosting company' or a 'website developer' these days..

When you own rackspace in a datacenter then you can be a hosting company

I gave up. All too complicated.

That's the spirit mate.

But seriously, whatever business idea you had I would bet my left nut has been done many times before and unless you know what you are doing and know how to go about it, it's just not worth it. There are too many people these days who think they are able to run an online business. I've developed countless online shops and businesses that the owners have just given up on it cuz it wasn't what they thought it was. You'd seriously have more luck selling shit at the markets.

I have an IBM 336 in my room, I am a hosting company too.

Hosting websites for as cheap as $3.00 a month!

Please note you need a dial up modem to connect to the hosting, as does anyone who wants to view the site!

Please send all enquiries to hosting@obnxsh.com

Yeah, never ceases to amaze me. There is no money to be made in hosting. There are sooo many different providers out there and unless you have something new to bring to the table, you will fail miserably.

For my business, I have a VM running at Linode which I host my customers' sites on and it is simply a cost-recovery exercise so I don't make a profit on it.

So many people call themselves website developers but they are really just template/joomla/wordpress jockies.



People also underestimate the cost of setting up an online business too Most of the time they think they can make a shitload of money from a tiny investment.