Building a website

Benjie

Benjie

It's a Toyota thing...
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Apr 28, 2007
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Raleigh
Any one have experience with any of the website development software that's out? I'm trying to decide which is best.

Anyone recommend any? Good experiences or bad?

I know some of you are a little tech savvy...

Thanks.

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I build sites using Dreamweaver. I'm old school when it comes to coding, though... I've been in and out of it professionally since 1999. Now, a lot of people use templates and Wordpress. I've done a couple using Wordpress and I like it, but I still like having my hands in the code. Are you wanting the graphics side or the programming side of software?
 
For something quick and dirty, I use Concrete5 CMS. Here is one site I did with it... www.troop942.net

I host with Bluehost.com, and you can load Concrete5 thru the cpanel/simplescripts. Likely can do with other cpanel hosts, or install yourself from www.concrete5.org

edit: it really depends on your end-use, the volume you expect, how much time and effort (learning curve), and/or money you want to put into this. Is it a personal site, small business, online sales, or what?
 
I'm in need of the same advice. Trying to slow and stop the process of a large local reservoir being built. I'm trying to build an informative, easy-to-use webpage that older folks will be able to use. Problem is, im trying to do it on the cheap, as most of the funding for this comes out of my own pocket, or that of a close friend of mine.

Any recommended software or hosting services? Sorry to hijack.
 
Redneck Rigger said:
I'm in need of the same advice. Trying to slow and stop the process of a large local reservoir being built. I'm trying to build an informative, easy-to-use webpage that older folks will be able to use. Problem is, im trying to do it on the cheap, as most of the funding for this comes out of my own pocket, or that of a close friend of mine.

Any recommended software or hosting services? Sorry to hijack.
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Hosting and domain name registry - Godaddy.com You can get free web hosting out there, but it's worth what you paid for it. Your domain name will run between $5 and $15 per year and hosting is a per month charge. Get the smallest package to start with ($5 per month). They walk you through the process of installing Wordpress on their hosted space, so it's pretty easy. Wordpress allows you to create very dynamic sites very quickly. So for about $75-$100 you could set up your site and run it for a year. Most of the time, that's enough time to get the word out about your site and make it worthwhile to continue for another year.
 
kaiser715 said:
For something quick and dirty, I use Concrete5 CMS. Here is one site I did with it... www.troop942.net

I host with Bluehost.com, and you can load Concrete5 thru the cpanel/simplescripts. Likely can do with other cpanel hosts, or install yourself from www.concrete5.org

edit: it really depends on your end-use, the volume you expect, how much time and effort (learning curve), and/or money you want to put into this. Is it a personal site, small business, online sales, or what?
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site looks good but your HOST IS SLOWER than DIRT
 
Really? Loads ok for me right now -- and just cleared cache to double check.

Anyone else want to check for me?
 
I moved my sites to godaddy mainly due to the cost..

and to my surprise all the sites load faster now then the did with a local host I had here in Raleigh..

but I also make almost all my changes in notepad and just change the code.. I started out in '97/'98 making sites and the one thing I learned that still sticks with me. Is if can come up the first page design in photoshop or whatever you can then cut up the image to make it into a working website and it will look awesome..

I have seen tons of sites built section by section to start and they just do not flow..

I suggest spend sometime on youtube watch some training videos on websites, apps they use etc.. it is like anything the more time you spend learning the better the end result will look
 
kaiser715 said:
Really? Loads ok for me right now -- and just cleared cache to double check.

Anyone else want to check for me?
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I rechecked it on 2 different boxes and the initial load was slow on both, then once loaded it was faster..
 
kaiser715 said:
Really? Loads ok for me right now -- and just cleared cache to double check.

Anyone else want to check for me?
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Took about 15 seconds to load the front page. May have had something to do with the video, but considering the site is primarily text with very little graphics, it should have loaded much quicker. I'm on RoadRunner at home - 25.6 Mb/s download, .98 Mb/s upload. Lowest I've had in a while.
 
ManglerYJ said:
I build sites using Dreamweaver. I'm old school when it comes to coding, though... I've been in and out of it professionally since 1999. Now, a lot of people use templates and Wordpress. I've done a couple using Wordpress and I like it, but I still like having my hands in the code. Are you wanting the graphics side or the programming side of software?
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I'm wanting it more graphics based. I haven't had my hands in html (or the like) in many years.

kaiser715 said:
For something quick and dirty, I use Concrete5 CMS. Here is one site I did with it... www.troop942.net

I host with Bluehost.com, and you can load Concrete5 thru the cpanel/simplescripts. Likely can do with other cpanel hosts, or install yourself from www.concrete5.org

edit: it really depends on your end-use, the volume you expect, how much time and effort (learning curve), and/or money you want to put into this. Is it a personal site, small business, online sales, or what?
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This is for a small business so I don't want it to look cheap. I'm prepared to invest some $$ into it. If I do it all, it will probably look cheap... I like your website. It did load slow for me as well. I'm on roadrunner too.

Redneck Rigger said:
I'm in need of the same advice. Trying to slow and stop the process of a large local reservoir being built. I'm trying to build an informative, easy-to-use webpage that older folks will be able to use. Problem is, im trying to do it on the cheap, as most of the funding for this comes out of my own pocket, or that of a close friend of mine.

Any recommended software or hosting services? Sorry to hijack.
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No problem! This isn't a hostile takeover! LOL. I already have the domain names, hosting, etc... worked out. I just need to get my site uploaded.


Anyone make websites on the side? Let me know.
 
What was this thread about, anyway? I know I'm off-topic in an on-topic kind of way....

One last check for anyone not loaded that site yet... www.troop942.net I dropped the video, see what kind of load delay you have and let me know.
 
kaiser715 said:
What was this thread about, anyway? I know I'm off-topic in an on-topic kind of way....

One last check for anyone not loaded that site yet... www.troop942.net I dropped the video, see what kind of load delay you have and let me know.
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Loaded much faster. Less than 1 second. The thread is about making a website! I'm looking for help.
 
Edit: Just noticed that you did give info.

As other's have said, you can get a site up and running for under a $100 if you know what you are doing. I use themeforest.net for design, mediatemple.net for hosting and domain registration, and Google Apps for Business for email.

Hit me up in PM if you're still looking for help.

I highly recommend using WordPress.
 
kaiser715 said:
What was this thread about, anyway? I know I'm off-topic in an on-topic kind of way....

One last check for anyone not loaded that site yet... www.troop942.net I dropped the video, see what kind of load delay you have and let me know.
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works fine for me, very small delay. I didn't try it earlier.
BTW I use BlueHost too. But mostly as a storage spot files and pics etc. used to host a brain awareness educational outreach site for our group at Wake Forest but WFU finally started hosting it.
 
Bluehost has been pretty good, got maybe 15 clients running on it. I had one instance where performance was a problem on there end (too-busy shared server) and they moved that site to another box. No problems since.

I have had a few problems with Godaddy, mostly email-related.

The rate on the site is intro (and they had one heck of a deal at Christmas, 3.95/mo). Renewals are at the standard rate. If you call in (I did it for my site a couple of months before expiration), they'll give you a renewal extension at the promo rate.
 
I developed our club website completely using Xara Web Designer and I think it does a good job, especially since I knew nothing about web coding. Its a 'what you see is what you get' design software. I think it was $50. Works well, but won't design real complicated sites though. Check our site out.

www.core4x4club.com
 
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