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Web site creation advice. Please help

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I was given a .com url for my birthday. Which was lovely but I don't know the first thing about creating a web site.

Advice, tips, hosting, idiot instructions needed please.

Whistler.

Forgotten to add on.

I'd like to do a community forum web site. If possible that is?
 
Depends if you got web space with that url.

If not, I am sure you can find plenty that you can forward from your URL to, maybe your ISP provides some?

As for publishing....

Well there are packages available to help you out. I know that Netscape came with a thing called composer at one point. That had the benefits of being free.

I am sure that there are many free to try packages you could have a look at.

There are full priced packages available like Dreamweaver and Frontpage.

The basics would be.
Getting a web space.
Creating pages.
Uploading your pages.
Setting your URL to point at those pages (where they are actually hosted).
 
There are lots of free tools available at webattack . I use the free version of the Acehtml editor, the free colour selector and various other bits and pieces. Different tools work different ways.
There are people on here better at the actual design than me. For the forum that would be down to your providers policy - some let you have carte blanche, others tie you tight.
You can even create web pages in Word but don't let me catch you doing that.
 
Reginald.

How do I or where do I look if my ISP provides me with some?
Do I just type in web site design into a search engine to look?

Whistler.
 
Wudang.
That sites is a little complicated for me to understand. I don't really know what I am looking for. I have frontpage it came with my computer. No idea how to use it though.

How do I get a forum set up sort of like this, or am I reaching out to far?

Whistler.
 
Whistler said:
Wudang.
That sites is a little complicated for me to understand. I don't really know what I am looking for. I have frontpage it came with my computer. No idea how to use it though.

How do I get a forum set up sort of like this, or am I reaching out to far?

Whistler.
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One step at a time methinks.

There are many sites that explain the setting up of basic sites etc. I think you should look at those first.. Google "Web page basics" or similar to get a feel for some of the concepts.
 
I always find (if you're using Windows) that the bst webpage creation tool is Notepad. Of course, I'm a snob, and that probably isn't much help right now.

Cheers,
Rat.
 
I just use Mozilla 'Composer'.

Many word processors also let you put in "links" and export in HTML format. For most documents with mixed pictures this is fine.

Of course, you must become familiar with the syntax and use of such links, in order to get out of it what you want.

The only "technical" thing is FTPing your stuff to the web site. There are various gee-whiz tools and things to do that for you.
 
Whistler said:
Wudang.
That sites is a little complicated for me to understand. I don't really know what I am looking for. I have frontpage it came with my computer. No idea how to use it though.

How do I get a forum set up sort of like this, or am I reaching out to far?

Whistler.
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If I were you I'd give the ISP (company where your site is located) a call and ask them if they can set up a forum for you. They will probably want to charge you for setting it up and the extra bandwidth it will consume.

A forum has to have a way to store the data, (all the stuff people type in little boxes like this) and setting up a forum like this particular one would go something like:

You would lease ($85) or purchase ($160) vbuletin (the forum software) (or download a free one) and you also need PERL/PHP or other types of server-side applications running (provides the server side processing to store and retrieve the data, among other things) and MySQL (or another brand of database) set up and running and all of these things usually require administrative access to the server and technical savvy to install and run.

It would be re-inventing the wheel to make a forum from scratch, there are many good free and not free ones available.

Then after it is set up and running you get to deal with all of the emails from people complaining that they couldn't get on the forum, and why can't you change the border color of the forum to yellow roses and on and on...
 
peptoabysmal said:
It would be re-inventing the wheel to make a forum from scratch, there are many good free and not free ones available.
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I've written a few messageboards from the ground up. In 3 days, I managed to write my own little forum (which is still incomplete, it was one of those spur of the moment projects which I lost interest in) which was remarkably similar to the vBulletin format. I wrote the messageboard in ASP.

The motivation for reinventing the wheel: I couldnt find any free boards I liked and I had a lot of freetime...
 
Some really nice person has set me up a forum to use. Am now trying to learn how to manage it.

I have had a go at making a front page, it's was fairly easy. I followed the steps. It's a bit rough, but I am proud of myself for trying.

I need a digit counter? Anybody know of where to get one. Possibly some click buttons? Is there anything else it should have?


Whistler
 
peptoabysmal said:


If I were you I'd give the ISP (company where your site is located) a call and ask them if they can set up a forum for you. They will probably want to charge you for setting it up and the extra bandwidth it will consume.

A forum has to have a way to store the data, (all the stuff people type in little boxes like this) and setting up a forum like this particular one would go something like:

You would lease ($85) or purchase ($160) vbuletin (the forum software) (or download a free one) and you also need PERL/PHP or other types of server-side applications running (provides the server side processing to store and retrieve the data, among other things) and MySQL (or another brand of database) set up and running and all of these things usually require administrative access to the server and technical savvy to install and run.

It would be re-inventing the wheel to make a forum from scratch, there are many good free and not free ones available.

Then after it is set up and running you get to deal with all of the emails from people complaining that they couldn't get on the forum, and why can't you change the border color of the forum to yellow roses and on and on...
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I have a forum already pre-set up now. It hasn't any yellow roses, and I don't know how to change the colours. I was confused with the choice available for forums. I asked one site and found a really nice person who had one free for me to use. They did the hard work a while I made my front page and made eventually the hyperlinks worked.

I have to say I admire web designers lots now.
 
Yahweh said:

I've written a few messageboards from the ground up. In 3 days, I managed to write my own little forum (which is still incomplete, it was one of those spur of the moment projects which I lost interest in) which was remarkably similar to the vBulletin format. I wrote the messageboard in ASP.

The motivation for reinventing the wheel: I couldnt find any free boards I liked and I had a lot of freetime...
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Yeah, that's the trouble with those self-motivated projects. I've got a game, a lottery number generator (which tries to use a modicum of AI) and a graphics tool laying around on CD that haven't been worked on in quite a while myself :D
 
Whistler said:



I have a forum already pre-set up now. It hasn't any yellow roses, and I don't know how to change the colours. I was confused with the choice available for forums. I asked one site and found a really nice person who had one free for me to use. They did the hard work a while I made my front page and made eventually the hyperlinks worked.

I have to say I admire web designers lots now.
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Sweet. Give us a link when you're ready to show it off. :)
 
peptoabysmal said:


Sweet. Give us a link when you're ready to show it off. :)
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Nearly ready. Don't be too hard on me it's my first attempt.

whistler.
 
Ok I think it is ready. Would somebody test it out for me please?
 
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