January 17, 200620 yr Im just wounder how do you know when you find the right host? and how to decide on a domain name?
January 17, 200620 yr Same way you know when you've got the right company for everything else. Check out the competition, market prices, features of their service, pros and cons etc. Suggest you don't agree to be locked into anything for too long. As for a domain name; depends what you're going to use the site for of course. Make it something people can remember, not too long, and something you'd be able to tell someone over the phone. Where the bloody hell are you?
January 17, 200620 yr and something you'd be able to tell someone over the phone. Steer clear of using - my-domain.com isnt as easy to say on the phone as mydomain.com ~Dan64AuSince 27 Aug 2002
January 17, 200620 yr Try and stick with .com/.net or whatever your locality is .co.uk/.com.au etc. Stay away from .info/.us/.ws as these are just rubbish. If you cant get the name you want on a top level domain then cheese another. also keep your domain name account seperate to your hosting package. Use a company such as http://www.namecheap.com or godaddy.com to maintain your domain names. That way if the hosting company you are with goes bust (most of them are resellers of resellers of resellers... etc) then you keep full control of your domain name. Most of the time when a hosting company offers you a "free" domain they register it in their name and it doesnt actually belong to you *cough* scapeboard.com *cough* Mercifull <3 Suzi "We don't want players to be able to buy their way to success in RuneScape. If we let players start doing this, it devalues RuneScape for others. We feel your status in real-life shouldn't affect your ability to be successful in RuneScape" Jagex 01/04/01 - 02/03/12
January 20, 200620 yr at http://www.joynic.com you can ''Duplicate'' and url in .nl.tt, .co.tt, de.tt all that kind of stuff.... and its totally free [http://woopidoo2.deviantart.com][Tip.it Moderator from Dec 10, 2006 to 03 Sep, 2008]
January 21, 200620 yr 1) Don't get a free domain 2) Don't get a free host 3) Don't use some low prepare CMS system or anything like that, script and code your own website, you'll need the skills to code them at a later date, if you're planing on being serious about the website 4) Don't trust anyone unless you've known them for a long time... Giving admin access to your site to a stranger can be very dangerous Those are the 4 ground rules which i always work after, hopefully you'll be able to use them as well? Keep us posted on the site, and please post back if you need help :D Btw, http://www.serverpowered.com, http://www.webhostfreaks.com, http://www.namecheap.com <-- Some of the best IMO, a bit more expensive than you might find other places, but for the service you get it's 110% worth it.
January 21, 200620 yr 3) Don't use some low prepare CMS system or anything like that, script and code your own website That's absolutely ridiculous. It might be true if you're gonna be running a massive site but for the sort of person who would come here to ask how to find a good host it is completely unnecessary to script and code their own site and not use a CMS. Some people are changed by being a moderator. I wouldn't be.
January 21, 200620 yr 3) Don't use some low prepare CMS system or anything like that, script and code your own website That's absolutely ridiculous. It might be true if you're gonna be running a massive site but for the sort of person who would come here to ask how to find a good host it is completely unnecessary to script and code their own site and not use a CMS. Word. Get something that's really flexible and has a huge mod community and modding documentation available, like PhpBB, and then just use that. Reinventing the wheel is pointless. handed me TWO tissues to clear up. I was like "i'm going to need a few more paper towels than that luv"
January 22, 200620 yr 3) Don't use some low prepare CMS system or anything like that, script and code your own website That's absolutely ridiculous. It might be true if you're gonna be running a massive site but for the sort of person who would come here to ask how to find a good host it is completely unnecessary to script and code their own site and not use a CMS.If you count on being successful, you'll only run into problems if you reley on premade systems... + the coding experience you'll get while making these is much more worth than simply clicking download and install... But yes, to start out with you could just get a free blog at blogger.com or something like that... It's just the rules i base my work on (and everything on Tip.It for that matter), noone says you need to follow them...
January 22, 200620 yr 3) Don't use some low prepare CMS system or anything like that, script and code your own website That's absolutely ridiculous. It might be true if you're gonna be running a massive site but for the sort of person who would come here to ask how to find a good host it is completely unnecessary to script and code their own site and not use a CMS.If you count on being successful, you'll only run into problems if you reley on premade systems... + the coding experience you'll get while making these is much more worth than simply clicking download and install... But yes, to start out with you could just get a free blog at blogger.com or something like that... It's just the rules i base my work on (and everything on Tip.It for that matter), noone says you need to follow them... But just to avoid giving a false impression to a new webmaster, we all feel the need to correct you :P. Nothing against you or your opinion. But then again, given your opinion, then why does tip.it run PhpBB? :P Just a thought. handed me TWO tissues to clear up. I was like "i'm going to need a few more paper towels than that luv"
January 22, 200620 yr You don't have to use something as unfit as a blog for a site, I am surprised at your apparent lack of knowledge about these things. There are plenty of free CMS out there which can be adapted far more than a simple blog site, saying to use something like blogger.com is misleading. Examples include PHPNuke and Plone, both of which are simple enough for a novice user to set up and offer functionality that even a massive site could use. For instance my university's website is a Plone site and students are taught how to use it in the web development level because it caters for both simple content management and more advanced stuff like UML, python and CSS. Some people are changed by being a moderator. I wouldn't be.
January 22, 200620 yr 3) Don't use some low prepare CMS system or anything like that, script and code your own website That's absolutely ridiculous. It might be true if you're gonna be running a massive site but for the sort of person who would come here to ask how to find a good host it is completely unnecessary to script and code their own site and not use a CMS.If you count on being successful, you'll only run into problems if you reley on premade systems... + the coding experience you'll get while making these is much more worth than simply clicking download and install... But yes, to start out with you could just get a free blog at blogger.com or something like that... It's just the rules i base my work on (and everything on Tip.It for that matter), noone says you need to follow them... But just to avoid giving a false impression to a new webmaster, we all feel the need to correct you :P. Nothing against you or your opinion. But then again, given your opinion, then why does tip.it run PhpBB? :P Just a thought.Because people are so used to phpbb :D And because using half a year on coding a forum would simply be a waste of time when you think about that these forums only hold like 1/15th of the users using Tip.It - I'd rather use half a year coding up something which benefits our 2.5 mil users on the main site, than the 70k here on the forums :D Simply a matter of prioritising... :P You don't have to use something as unfit as a blog for a site, I am surprised at your apparent lack of knowledge about these things. There are plenty of free CMS out there which can be adapted far more than a simple blog site, saying to use something like blogger.com is misleading. Examples include PHPNuke and Plone, both of which are simple enough for a novice user to set up and offer functionality that even a massive site could use. For instance my university's website is a Plone site and students are taught how to use it in the web development level because it caters for both simple content management and more advanced stuff like UML, python and CSS.Well, from my experience i've just seen time after time that when you make the stuff yourself, and put some time and effort into it, insetad of installing phpnuke (for example), you'll get a much better result, the uniqueness, user friendliness and customising - All end up being better. And once again, learning how to code when you want to be a webmaster is deff a plus. But then again, this is just my oppinion ;)
February 18, 200620 yr Here are your summer tasks 1. Learn HTML 2. Learn Frames/CSS 3. Put together your site. If you want to be serious and pay money for this site, you have to code it.
February 18, 200620 yr 2. Learn Frames FRAMES!!!!! Welcome to 1999 how about adding some and clipart gifs :D Mercifull <3 Suzi "We don't want players to be able to buy their way to success in RuneScape. If we let players start doing this, it devalues RuneScape for others. We feel your status in real-life shouldn't affect your ability to be successful in RuneScape" Jagex 01/04/01 - 02/03/12
February 18, 200620 yr 2. Learn Frames FRAMES!!!!! Welcome to 1999 how about adding some and clipart gifs :D What do you have against frames? They're very useful for nav bars so that you don't have to scroll all the way back up a long page to go to another section of a site. Of course, you have to code the frames so that the grey separating bar is invisible and mimics the background of the site :wink:, so that it looks good. handed me TWO tissues to clear up. I was like "i'm going to need a few more paper towels than that luv"
February 18, 200620 yr 2. Learn Frames FRAMES!!!!! Welcome to 1999 how about adding some and clipart gifs :D What do you have against frames? They're very useful for nav bars so that you don't have to scroll all the way back up a long page to go to another section of a site. Of course, you have to code the frames so that the grey separating bar is invisible and mimics the background of the site :wink:, so that it looks good.Just make the nav bar float in a div on the site... looks soo much better than multiple scroolbars.. :D
February 19, 200620 yr 2. Learn Frames FRAMES!!!!! Welcome to 1999 how about adding some and clipart gifs :D What do you have against frames? They're very useful for nav bars so that you don't have to scroll all the way back up a long page to go to another section of a site. Of course, you have to code the frames so that the grey separating bar is invisible and mimics the background of the site :wink:, so that it looks good.Just make the nav bar float in a div on the site... looks soo much better than multiple scroolbars.. :D Floating navs are annoying as hell, because they take time to catch up. handed me TWO tissues to clear up. I was like "i'm going to need a few more paper towels than that luv"
February 19, 200620 yr you can make a floating div stick in the same place without the "catchup" thingy ya know frames are bad netiquette, bad for SEO and bad for accessability Mercifull <3 Suzi "We don't want players to be able to buy their way to success in RuneScape. If we let players start doing this, it devalues RuneScape for others. We feel your status in real-life shouldn't affect your ability to be successful in RuneScape" Jagex 01/04/01 - 02/03/12
February 19, 200620 yr Floating navs are annoying as hell, because they take time to catch up.http://www.phantom-mullet.com/?p=23 - Menu's and navs can be made just like the reply box there - It doesn't need time to catch up or anything like that... But i do know the kind you're speaking of, they are truely anoying...
February 23, 200620 yr if you need fancy stuff on your site, you could use pay things and such, and making stuff with macromedia flash player? trough i am not even good with a little HTML, on my MSN space i dont got any fancy HTML, and neiter cant put some fancy stuff on it, but it never needed to be a professional site, if your planning to make such, you could best purchase some good stuff? the most fancy thing on my MSN space is a thingy to play movies(forgot name?)... there enough sites what show some HTML codes, or java script, all kinds of fancy thingy's. enough choices, just choose good. Known in-game as Mister evil9(lvl 93)(P2P).Modding gta2(making maps, scripts,editing it).On world 54 mostly.Made a nice GTA2 site!A little in-active...
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