Hosting and Web Design Tips

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Hi Expert,

I am quite new to web hosting and design. Any suggestion where can i get reliable "free" hosting? and Any recommendation on software i should use to create my web page.

Last few week, i start with blogger and google sites. I face lot of restriction on turnning and etc.

Pls advice.
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  • Hi Sky_tay,

    I can't comment on free hosting as i've never been able to find anywhere with a reliable service and without ads all over my site!

    In terms of building web pages I use Komposer for the simple reason I know how to use the software. I'm sure there are better tools out their on the market for people starting out though.

    Anywho, good luck with the web design - I taught myself a year ago and have now designed and launched 4 websites for fun!
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    • thanks for yours reply.

      How about wordpress mention in other forum? Is this tool recommended? Is this tool provide flaxibility to change any code?
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  • Reliable Free Hosting is an oxymoron.

    Plus some signups will reject you if your site is on a free hosting platform.
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    • Hi indigo jack,

      Can I have the oxymoron domain address?

      Thank!
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  • Have to agree with above posts. But Zone said it best! For 4.95/mo HostGator gives you just about an infinite amount of tools to use for Free! Simply google coupon code to enjoy first month Free...., cancel if you wish but you will not be disappointed!

    $4.95/mo for an almost unlimited amount of tools? Who can beat that? As far as I'm concerned that's as close to free hosting as one can get! But I'm on their $24.95/mo plan.
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    • Hostgator is great for someone who doenst plan to build a big site. I built a site up to a great traffic rate in 2 years and hostgator became a nightmare. Even with me having a reseller acount and never exceeding my bandwidth. Its just that I was bogging things up I guess because of the traffic. Ultimately I just moved my sites to cloud and I got truly unlimited everything.

      Hostgator wouldnt even send me warnings, they would shut my site down and then I had to go through their bajillion security walls to get access by proving im me to fix optimization things to get my site back up and running. Stuff that took 8 hours for them to let me get in where if my site was up I could have fixed in 5 minutes. was a load of bs.
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  • Free hosting sucks.
  • Yeah, hostgator does give you everything but everyone of your websites will all have the same ip address. Just try to do some inner linking and your sites will sink like a rock in the abyss known as the google search engine results.

    There is a lot of technical things that must be considered when buying hosting. If you putting up a blog featuring sweet betty lou and her recipes and life story that kinda hosting is great.

    If you wanna make some money....you gonna have to come up off of some coin. Remember if you wanna play with the big dogs you gotta stop peeing on the porch with the puppies.
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    • This is a myth. Having a multiple domain hosting account and then linking all those sites together will not make them drop off the Google map.
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  • you can get really cheap hosts just have a look around.
  • Try ixwebhosting.I am with them for 10 years,and would say they are the best.
  • Create content, interest related to your site, the more pages with useful content you have, the better. Make the body of your index page and targeted to avoid the need for the user to scroll down on any page.
  • The main design goal is the creativity.It is all they have value in the design of things can come in the wake tool.Rest that time.Thank for it.
  • For web design i would use WordPress › Blog Tool and Publishing Platform

    then if needed i would add some spice to my webiste with some flash animations

    for hosting i would use hostgator.com
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    • Another vote for HostGator. Pay the $5 per month it'll save you a ton of headaches.

      Learn Wordpress it's easy and will get you going fast.
      Go buy a theme from themeforest to get going even faster.

      Use Notepad++ for coding on a PC and Filezilla for FTP. Both are free
  • We like to think of ourselves as designer/developers.We also offer every aspect of web hosting packages.
  • I have to agree with the above posts. There is no such thing as FREE web hosting. On the other side you may find some, but don't expect your website will be trusted on a free hosting server. Also, there will be issues with speed and customer care.

    To sum this up, it is better to go on shared hosting for $5 a month or less!
  • Just to add to what others have said - free hosting normally means the provider slaps adverts all over your website too. Also, by paying for the service you can bet you'll get a more reliable service as well as some sort of on going support which always comes in very very helpful!
  • byethost , xtreemhost , eb2a

    3 pretty good free web hosting, fantastico installer, vistapanel , No ADS.
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    • You can design a website that looks fantastic people, but a little to see if it takes a long time to load. Your design must be optimized for the web, and should not take more than 15 seconds to load. It is like trying to read a newspaper when someone puts you on the shoulder several times. In addition, as the visitors with slow connections can be sorry that you wasted their time by forcing them to load animations and sound files against their will.
  • I've heard hostgator offers a nice package but try to consider godaddy as well as they are more economical. Just choose the right package and for sure you'll gonna like it. But also you can just get opinion from people here as they might have more experienced on this.
  • web desiging tips are as bellow :

    1. Select a colour scheme and stick to it.
    2. Use templates.
    3. Provide an easy to use navigation system.
    4. Don't go overboard on special effects
    5. Backgrounds
    6. External Links
    7. Site Map & Search Feature
  • It is very good topic for discussion. Every one can share their thoughts about it. According to my personal experience i think that Web design process in the whole process to be respected, it will succeed.
  • If you want to start you online business, I think you better not try the free hosting. About web design,you may start from blog, blogspot or wordpress.
  • Listen up, the actual site is a bit rudimentary, but if you want a simple WP blog put up with minimal content and a contact form, Free Small Business Website Builder - GET YOUR SITE FOR FREE! can do it for you.

    The catch is you have to get your Hostgator hosting account through their link.
  • Hey Dude ....

    My only Advice Is Dont Try Hosting They Can Delete Your Account Any Time Without Any Notice ....

    Or If You Really Wanna Try A Free Hosting I Have one They Give Reliable free Hosting For Posting Posts In Their Forums

    hostwoot DOT com
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    • Well it depends what you want from your host, you want lots of disk space, bandwidth, SQL databases, cPanel, Fantastico? and what type of site you are developing, it is a personal page, he is a fan club, blog, forum, website of the company? Give us more details, and we should be able to give you more information.
  • Hi,
    See if you for for free hosting option, it will be showing a banner in top with lots of advertisements, in that case you site will not look so good.
    There are so many options for free hosting. Some sites will provide you free webspace and a subdomain also. So you can host your pages there. For designing you should go fore Dreamweaver or Frontpage. These tool are very helpful for freshers.
    You also can book free domains at co.cc site. Here domains with ext co.cc are free.
    I am giving you some free hosting providers URl Here
    000webhost.com
    free-webhosts.com
    x10hosting.com
  • I dont recommend free hosting at all. If you are planning to have a professional blog, you must spend few bugs on hosting so that you would be able to concentrate on your blog rather than getting worried about the ads that would be showing up on your ads or your blog being too slow most of them or not responding at all. About the CMS, i would wordpress is the best to start a blog as it has a huge variety of pluggins. You can do almost everything and anything with the help of widgets and pluggins offered for wordpress.
  • Hello Friends.......

    Great Tips.Thanks for sharing such wonderful information with all of us.Keep sharing more tips in the future.

    Have a nice time ahead.

    Thanks
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  • you can get free hosting easily with byethost without ads and a free domain with co.cc. If you don't know how to make a worpress blog, I will do it for you for free. just let me know if you want.
  • Your design must be optimized for the web, and ought to not take over 15 seconds to load. It is like trying to read a newspaper when someone puts you on the shoulder several times. In addition, as the visitors with slow connections can be sorry that you wasted their time by forcing them to load animations and sound files against their will.
  • Use adobe dreamviewer cs3/cs4 or cs5
  • I recomend you to invest in your tool.CS3
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  • I recommend you to use wordpress as your cms and use byethost free hosting.
  • Wordpress is the most popular free website and blog software

    No such thing as good free hosting

    Its only about $60 a year for qaulity hosting (just search for web host coupons on twitter)

    You'll never be in control of your site if you use blogger or any other free site
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