Advice on easy peasy website

the current Mrs Daryl1968 needs/wants to set up a website.
Can anyone recommend a good, easy 'template' type web hosting site? Free would be great but cheap works too.
 

Heres the one I started but havent been in in a while to work on it

http://digi2ns.wix.com/digi2ns

Have her check out kevs as well, Lots of good ideas out there. I have a friend that has a photography studio site built as well that came out nice

I use separate web creation software from my host.  my host is just a host.  but it is cheap and pretty easy.

webeasy professional

www.oneandone.com
oh - and oneandone does have webcreation tools built into the account as well, but I don't use those myself.

daryl1968


the current Mrs Daryl1968 needs/wants to set up a website.
Can anyone recommend a good, easy 'template' type web hosting site? Free would be great but cheap works too.
 

Mike has a good link. If you are looking for free and easy to construct without using html you may consider a wordpress site. You can pick your own name with a .wordpress after the extension. They have hundreds of templates to choose from too. This is a blog site but you can imbed video from You tube Vimeo and other video sites. You can add photos and pdf files. Other media can be stored there as well. The account is free.


I have two free sites from Wordpress. here is one of them.


http://bvawe.wordpress.com/the-monetary-history-of-america/ 

You can also imbed music players from Reverbnation and other sites.

For 99.00 a year you can get your own domain name, get an additional 5 gigs of space, remove the adds, have access to their video player and song player, they will host your site, and a few other perks as well. my paid wordpress site is below.

 http://marcuscurtismusic.com/

I am still developing the site but you can see some of the things you can do. One of the nice things about word press is the administrator page. you can see your traffic. You can see where people came from what pages they clicked on what links they clicked on while they where on your site. all kinds of things. you can have people sign up for a mailing list ect.

All you need is an email address to get started. What you may do is create a yahoo, gmail, or outlook email account strictly for the site then use that email address as a way people can contact you. 

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Wordpress is the easiest, best, most reliable way to build a website.  And its open source.  It is a, "piece of cake," compared to other cms'.  I've been toying with Wordpress, on n off, for about 5 years now.  Currently I am putting this together in my down time..  Its for http://audioghoststudios.net      --  Which is a domain currently pointed @ a tumblr blog

The big problem with wordpress is theming..  you either, "know n understand,' or don't.  I'm thinking about a month or two on treehouse..  I am going with a simple site, it looks like this




BTW, pointing a domain at tumblr and going with a tumblr blog is not so bad an idea too.  I quite like doing that.  I'm just afraid it is a bit more professional to have your, "owned," web site, at your hosting account.

I'm interested in seeing what this is all about http://cashmusic.org but its not done yet...  they say, "hosted solution by the fall."  I tried installing the script in my local host ( web matrix, with a mysql and sql server setup ) but I got some sort of 404 error, even though I know, I installed the script correctly.  Major bug on their part imo

WIX . . . I LIKEY!  

http://drumstixkev.wix.com/vox-box-studio

offnote


so with wix you don't have to register your domain? that nice....

The only thing that kinda messes with others searching for your site is they have to add the "wix" into the address


ie cant be digi2ns.com, has to be wix/digi2ns.com but is automatically assigned by them. Makes it a little more harder if your searching for someones site but no biggy.


The upside of it is just learning you can go in and learn the processes of site builders at your own pace by trial and error.

If you don't pay the WIX is added to your address.  If you decide to pay you get a few more added options and I THINK ? ? ? you get to create your Domain Name

Daryl . . . THANKS for the props on the studio.  Now if I could only get motivated to record something.  I do a lot of going in sitting then turn around turn the light s off and leave. 

offnote


so with wix you don't have to register your domain? that nice....

Wix works like word press in that the host site is in the domain name. So you could have a site that looks like offnote.wix.com or offnote.wordpress.com. In both of these situations the site would be free. Both services are good some of the features are a bit different.


Wordpress also offers things like website hosting, domain names, additional space, custom designs by techs, Video press (allows you to use there player and upload your own videos) site redirect, and other things like that. I think they have some great looking templates. after you load a template you can change settings within the template.


Wix is also a great place to build a site. not sure about any extra features or services they may sell. But their free sites are good too. 

drumstixkev


Daryl . . . THANKS for the props on the studio.  Now if I could only get motivated to record something.  I do a lot of going in sitting then turn around turn the light s off and leave. 

I'll come and use it for you - save it getting dusty :)

Guitarhacker


I use a go daddy domain hosted site.... I pay a small fee for the domain and the hosting is free. Small banner on top of the page is the price I pay for having free hosting. 

I tried some of the "nested" sites and didn't like their company name being in my website address....

I think you just like the godaddy commercials.

hi Daryl:
 
I'm a huge proponent for Wordpress.
 
Purchase a domain at GoDaddy and download wordpress right to your GoDaddy server. Plenty of free templates.
 
Here are a few I've made up for clients, friends; (I have little experience in website design)
 
mural-artist.net (paid template)
 
losneighbors.com (free template)
 
There is a learning curve to Wordpress but Lynda.com has some excellent tutorials for a nominal fee.
 
Just building a website is one thing; Plenty of hosts will give you free website building tools  but SEO is paramount; and this is where wordpress shines; plenty of free search optimization plug-ins and a clean easy to read code.

Beagle

Guitarhacker


I use a go daddy domain hosted site.... I pay a small fee for the domain and the hosting is free. Small banner on top of the page is the price I pay for having free hosting. 

I tried some of the "nested" sites and didn't like their company name being in my website address....

I think you just like the godaddy commercials.

Is go mammy good as well? probably it's safer, daddy can get stoned...