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Elvenesse
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How many of you have your own websites? I'm thinking of making my own - a really simple one. I'm looking for somewhere to set it up and was wondering if anyone has any suggestions.
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I don't! 
I'm so lame.
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Elvenesse
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Thank you, that's very useful. 
Beware, or I may corrupt you with my Britishness!
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Sorcia
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Hi
I manage about five sites, none are LOTR however but if you want some recommendations about sites in general and software, happy to answer any questions I'm capable of.
Currently I use software called HOTDOG to do my sites and that requires a little knowledge of being able to actually hand write code.
I know I always tell people to surf around and visit sites similiar to what they want to set up, check out content, colours, graphics to get some idea on how they want their own set up and what they want in content or what appeals to them personally.
Hope this helps a bit.
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Thuriniel
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I have my website with Geocities ... if you don't know any HTML coding, they have a web builder that is pretty easy to use. I do my site with HTML coding just because I find it more flexible ... and I warn you, I didn't have a clue about HTML until a couple of months ago ... around the time when the avatars were pulled out and we needed to come with our own avatars ... somehow I started to look at HTML ... next thing I knew I had my own site!
I found this site incredibly helpful
http://www.pagetutor.com/pagetutor/makapage/index.html
It is very basic ... but it worked for me. You won't find "fireworks" in my site, but it's coming along !
Good luck!
PS: Sorcia ... does HOTDOG allow you to use HTML as well? I've been trying to find a web builder to spice up my site, but that allows me as well to use HTML (the web builders I've been looking at only allow you to use their options, nothing else). Do I make any sense? Sometimes I don't even make sense to myself  !
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BittenBuggy
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| Elvenesse wrote: | Thank you, that's very useful.
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Ack! *Runs from the Brit*
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Robbie
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| Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2004 4:54 pm Post subject: Re: Web sites |
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| Elvenesse wrote: | | How many of you have your own websites? I'm thinking of making my own - a really simple one. I'm looking for somewhere to set it up and was wondering if anyone has any suggestions. |
www.nexuswebs.net
It's free, no silly pop-ups like gecites or the other main ones (just a small text footer at the bottom of the page). Perfect for a beginner.
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Viv
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I have a little ego shrine. Once upon a time, I hosted it through geocities, but that got frustrating pretty quickly. Upside: it's free. Downside: it's clunky and slow to update (you have to upload *each* file you've altered, one at a time). Argh.
Eventually, I decided to get my own domain, and it's worked out really well. I went through directNIC. If you register the domain name through them (I think it was $15 US for a year), they will host your site for free. For $15 more, they'll host it with no ads. I thought it was a pretty good deal, though I'm sure there are better ones out there.
For making pages, I use Dreamweaver. For making art, I use mostly Photoshop. I suggest using some sort of WYSIWYG editor for HTML... no one should ever have to hand-code tables. That's cruel and unusual. |
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KhazarKhum
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I have a nice free & cheap Geocities site, too. If I didn't have Nazgul Dan, though, I probably wouldn't even have that!  |
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Sorcia
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Thuriniel wrote:"PS: Sorcia ... does HOTDOG allow you to use HTML as well?"
Yes, HOTDOG is basically an HTML program but has lots of fun features for short cuts. I found the WYSIWYG programs too restricting for what I wanted my pages to do. Its a little cheaper than the Dreamweaver software that Viv uses(I'm very jealous..would love to play with that!) I also agree, hand coding tables can be maddening, teeth grinding work but the software I use has a button for that  .
http://www.sausage.com
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Elvenesse
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| Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 6:47 am Post subject: |
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Thank you all for the links and suggestions, I'll look at all of them before I decide what I want to use.
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Thuriniel
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Thanks Sorcia! It sounds just like what I'm looking for. I will make sure I take a look at it. I did check Viv's site and it looks very nice ... Dreamweaver sounds very tempting as well !
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Moralanqua
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| Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 9:54 am Post subject: |
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Im on good ole geocities too. I also 'borrow' from a few other sites to increase my space.
Its the easiest if you have no money, no net building knowledge and no ideas. Its as simple as moving everything into place with your mouse.
I got more confident and made my own stuff. Eventually, i'll figure out how to make it posh like Viv and Panneths.
Good luck!
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Panneth
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Mine's not posh! It's entirely from a template and I just add things. It even came that pink
It's on http://www.freewebs.com. There aren't any popups, but you're only allowed 7 actual pages until you start forking out for "premium services". It's only $10 for unlimited pages which is really cheap with the current dollar-pound exchange rate. I'm really happy with the web-builder, it's very good for the simple stuff, and then you can just switch to viewing the page as HTML and throw in all the rest.
The technical support is total rubbish though... They've still to get back to me from about January time.
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Viv
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| Sorcia wrote: | Its a little cheaper than the Dreamweaver software that Viv uses(I'm very jealous..would love to play with that!) I also agree, hand coding tables can be maddening, teeth grinding work but the software I use has a button for that .
http://www.sausage.com
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Professional versions of Dreamweaver are pricey, but if you are (or anyone you know is) a student, you can get an Educational version for around 80 bucks. Still more expensive than using notepad, but within the realm of budget. Sometimes when there's a new version of a software package, you can pick up the older version cheap on ebay. I recently bought Illustrator off of ebay for about $40 with shipping. |
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