Hosting and Web Design Tips

14 years ago

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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sky_tay 14 years ago

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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- Pollon 14 years ago
  
  wordpress or joomla are Content Management Systems (CMS). They are both customizable depending on your level of programming knowledge. You can extend their functionalities easily with plugins and modules. They are both kind of easy to manage.
  
  If you want a website to learn about webpages creations here it is
  W3Schools Online Web Tutorials
  
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  Donald Luna 13 years ago
  
  Hi there!
  I love web page designing.. I'm comfortable with(CS3) for your banner i assure you its a big help.
  I used this software because It's user friendly. On the other hand If you're in a hurry u can try wizard you will no longer provide codes for your back ends the wizard will do it for you(Dreamweaver)...You can surf the web about free hosting.
  
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  judithmcnaughts 13 years ago
  
  If you are looking for the development of flexibility and freedom, your best choice is Drupal. There are also some modules, a huge network marketing to do things in Drupal is free, but will cost you a lot of their premium is a WordPress plugin.
  
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- dmor71 14 years ago
  
  If you are looking for flexibility and development freedom then you top choice is drupal. Also there are a lot of modules that do tremendous things for internet marketing that are free in drupal but will cost you a premium for them as a wordpress plug-in.
  
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IndigoJack

14 years ago

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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sky_tay 14 years ago

Hi indigo jack,

Can I have the oxymoron domain address?

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- bigfishingshop 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by sky_tay
  
  Hi indigo jack,
  
  Can I have the oxymoron domain address?
  
  Thank!
  
  :p ROTFLMAO!!! Now that's funny!
  
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HD

14 years ago

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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Mr.YeaBuddy

13 years ago

Originally Posted by HD

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.

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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Mr.YeaBuddy

13 years ago

Originally Posted by dmor71

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.

I like your analogies but I gotta agree with indigo jack.

I got a site that is #1 ranked in google for the 2 biggest search key phrases and never past #3 in others. It's also #1 ranked in google for foreign googles. It has plenty of links to one of my other sites on it, and has for almost 2 years ... never slipped a spot in google.

Originally Posted by IndigoJack

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.

very true in my case.

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webdelux

14 years ago

Free hosting sucks.

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dmor71

14 years ago

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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IndigoJack

14 years ago

Originally Posted by dmor71

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.

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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declanjorden 14 years ago

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
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3rok3n

14 years ago

you can get really cheap hosts just have a look around.

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Web Seo Group

14 years ago

Try ixwebhosting.I am with them for 10 years,and would say they are the best.

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diederiksaffi

14 years ago

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.

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adrienngary

14 years ago

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.

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amaracray

14 years ago

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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zoonix 14 years ago

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
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TechGuy1

13 years ago

We like to think of ourselves as designer/developers.We also offer every aspect of web hosting packages.

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karlster

13 years ago

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!

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CreativeEye

13 years ago

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!

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gerwarrior

13 years ago

byethost , xtreemhost , eb2a

3 pretty good free web hosting, fantastico installer, vistapanel , No ADS.

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kevinjones 13 years ago

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.
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lambertmerk

13 years ago

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.

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alfordalvin

13 years ago

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

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rogerclinton

13 years ago

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. First, create a professional web site designers looking to attract attention, which is user friendly, search engine friendly and browser friendly.

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silverf0x

13 years ago

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.

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ikosuave

13 years ago

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.

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luckyshah290

13 years ago

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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karynmonk 13 years ago

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.
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babpavel16

13 years ago

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

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joe12joe

13 years ago

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.

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carry12

13 years ago

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.

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rain21

13 years ago

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.

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rozerbacks

13 years ago

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.

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edyculay

13 years ago

Use adobe dreamviewer cs3/cs4 or cs5

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gloribel5

13 years ago

I recomend you to invest in your tool.CS3

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rain21

13 years ago

I recommend you to use wordpress as your cms and use byethost free hosting.

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haymanpl

13 years ago

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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