alright, so...i was inspired tonight and designing a whole new website for my photography...but i need some advice. in the past ive used
http://www.angelfire.com to build my websites cause it was free and pretty painless. and i am leaning more toward the free hosting route again but i wanna know if there is anything better out there.
but then im also thinking that id like this wesite to look good and be more professional, so i should get my own domain. but i dont even know where to begin. i know a ton of you have your own so maybe you can help? ill bake you cookies and shtuff ;D
and buy it from godaddy, they're cheapest
then sign up with fmlive, its inexpensive too
dreamweaver or frontpage will work just fine :)
you could always buy a domain
and then have it point to an angelfire or geocities page... but you will have popups and it wont look cool...
all you need is basic html and if you dont know that... well i can help you or you can make it in front page or dreamweaver
so id have to buy the domain name at godaddy and then buy a place to host it too? thats where i get confused hehe
then the webhosting is monthly pmts, or you can pay it all up front :)
does fmlive register the domain name for you?
when i bought my package over a year ago all i did was enter my domain name... lol
most domains nowadays cost $15 a year, no matter where you buy it actually. [unless you want some fancy stuff like .name or .biz]
directonic also offers hosting for a price. i think regular price for one gig of space is about 3-5$ a month. depending on the provider, you get goodies like MySQL db's, pop accounts, and all that... it's really up to you if you want that stuff or not.
just make sure you get a provider that registers the DNS {nameserver} for you. because that's just horror to do.
for the domain, definately use godaddy.com. I got a fucking STEAL when I got mine during their superbowl special. I have www.danaedenied.com/ for two years for $18. that's usually the cost of one year at other places.
as for where to host it, I don't nkow where.. i have a friend hosting my site. >_>
but yeah. godaddy.com is great prices and they're reliable and easy to set up
The only crap is the hosting. i had to pay like $4.00 a month for the smallest amount of size.. Luckily now i get it for free + unlimited.
basically you pay $6 to have a name
and then $4 a month for space to hold your content.
to turn on your UB webpage.
After that, you can FTP or SSH files to ubunix.buffalo.edu. I think you get up to 15 MB of space on UBFS.
but it says they are going to be discontinuing it?
Actually, if you're using Windows (i dunno if there's a similar kind of thing for Mac) an easier way to transfer files than FTP or SSH is by using Webfolders, if you wanna take a look at it here:
http://wings.buffalo.edu/computing/documentation/win/webfolders.html