Setting up a Website

[bud]

Have a wee bit of experience of htlm.
Need a website, nothing special.
Couple of pages, with text & pictures.
What is the eway to do this, Frontpage??

How do i go about hosting it etc?
Where is the best place to get a domain name?
How much would you expect to pay for the domain and hosting?

[C_Berg_316]

Frontpage/Dreamweaver probably your best bet if you want something simple.

http://www.123-reg.co.uk/ isnt a bad site for hosting/getting your domain name, etc.  Not 100% of the prices.

[thejuice]

I've been looking to do this as well. Will keep an eye on this thread.

[Treasurer]

I'm with blacknight in Tipp and haven't had a problem.  www.blacknight.com

I started off with raw html.  Depends how far you want to take it, freebie little packages like edit plus can get you there but I find Dreamweaver the business - although I'm not sure how easy it would be to figure out from scratch, without doing some sort of quick course in it.

My last bill was €9.98 for .com domain and €60 for my hosting.

HTH

[Hardy]

I use Letshost.ie - very happy with them. Hosting for €7.95 per month if you pay monthly or down to €3.95/month if you pay 24 months in advance and you can have up to 25 separate sites for this single payment. They handle domain registration and all and provide more than adequate capacity, email addresses, etc. and good support.

[Mhic Easmuint]

Yep probably a program like Frontpage or Dreamweaver would be good.  Ideally dreamweaver. 
Use 123-reg.co.uk for all my domains. 

Recently took a hosting account with http://hosting.digiweb.ie/
€40 for the year and a .com domain name for €6.99

They have a cheaper hosting package at €20 a year but thats Linux Hosting. 

[Croí na hÉireann]

Will be setting up one shortly as well. Any insight into the differences between Windows and Linux Hosting as I haven't looked into it yet???

[bud]

Cheers, i done a bit of googling before hand and 123-reg looked decent enough.
Might try it for the domain name.

If i was to have to a review section would i need to add muchextra functionality?
Not that keen on the programming side of things so the easiest way i can do this the better!

Thanks again!

[Mhic Easmuint]

If new to it, it might be easier getting domain and hosting with same company.  It will then all be automatically be set up for you.
Otherwise you'll have to change the nameservers of the domain to point to your hosting. 

What do you mean a review section?  Where users need to post things? 


If your just building a standard html site then either will do. 
If doing some programming with .asp or asp.net then you would need Windows Hosting (also supports other languages)
Linux Supports other programming languages. 

[bud]

Where users need to post things? 

Yeah Mhic, did i need to add something extra, i wouldn't get in frontpage?
Cheers!

[Mhic Easmuint]

I don't think this could be done in front page. 
This would need some sort of database behind it. 
I would usually program that sort of thing. 

There may be some free script available which provide something similiar to what you need though.
E.g. http://www.hotscripts.com/ASP/Scripts_and_Components/Guestbooks/index.html

Most of them are probably a matter of just copying and pasting. 

[take_yer_points]

Is it possible to host your own website over the web on an XP machine (with a static IP address) or would you need Server 2003 (or a similar OS)?

[Mhic Easmuint]

Yep possible but wouldn't do it. 

[take_yer_points]

Yep possible but wouldn't do it. 

Why not? Security issues?

[joebloggs]

Get hosting with blacknight.ie support service is excellent.
The use a cms to set up your website. Joomla, Wordpress are some of the more common ones and you can have a fairly good website set up with very little hassle. Having your own ip and running the computer all the time would near cost as much as getting hosting from a provider and would give you more hassle.