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Looking to set up a basic (for now) website but it apears to be a bit of a minefiled with domain registrar's, hosts etc and it's all very confusing. If it was metal I'd be ok.
Initially just want to have a gallery of what I do, some 'about us' details and contact page.
Any good tips on how to go about it, who to use for registrar and host etc would be very, very gratefully received
Facebook.
- Go to www.tsohost.com
- Buy a domain with cloud hosting
- Set up a simple Wordpress site
It's not hard, if you can use Office then you can easily do all that. TSOHost are really good.
will be doing Facebok, initially, but want a more professional look. Will have some time to work on the website to get it set up nicely.
Plugging my own stuff, and bearing in mind that I'm a bicycle builder not an IT professional, these three are all my sites done in Wordpress with TSOHost:
http://www.kinetics-online.co.uk/
http://www.transientplaces.co.uk/
http://www.maryhillpark.org/
Hosting for these, plus a couple of others, costs £5 per month.
+1 for tso host
Built my own blog site this year, using a theme that I purchased separately.
Bit of a learning curve but not too hard and quite rewarding.
My site is unduro.co.UK - if you want to see what a non-techy can come up with.
Try Forthhosting, I bought one of his 99p hosting packages off ebay
something like 4 years ago, I have since moved a few websites over to
them. Alex seems happy to answer[even my stupid] question pretty quickly.
I have no idea about Wordpress or anything like that I learnt to write html in the 90's[it's very easy] and I just hand write them; I tried Dreamweaver when it came out, I was appalled at the amount of code it generated.
There are more idiot-proof ways to make a website these days. Check out 'DIY' website builders*:
- www.wix.com
- www.fasthosts.co.uk/website-builder
- uk.godaddy.com/websites/website-builder
*I work for one of the above...not telling which one.
The one you forgot to make into a link? 😀
I wouldn't touch fasthosts with a very big barge pole, the bunch of useless numpties that they are. Never have I had so much pain using them for websites, especially when it came to their 'support'. Raise a ticket, and somebody might respond within a day, and eventualy fix the problem a couple weeks later. Oh how glad I was when the minimum contract time was up.
I now mainly use UnitedHosting. Not the cheapest, but the longest I've ever had to wait for a support response is 47minutes. And they even fixed the problem before replying.
I use godaddy for all my domain names, and I know several people who use them for hosting without any major problems. Not the fastest to respond, but good enough for non-critical websites.