how do you get a web page

Subject: how do you get a web page
From: GUEST,noddy
Date: 22 Nov 02 - 04:17 AM

Hello out there. How is it that lots of folkies with nothing more than two ha'pennies to rub together can get a web page. How much do they cost. And How do I get one.

Subject: RE: how do you get a web page
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 22 Nov 02 - 04:33 AM

heloo, i think you haf to send away for them, but im not sure really.john

Subject: RE: how do you get a web page
From: mooman
Date: 22 Nov 02 - 05:03 AM

Dear Guest Noddy,

There are quite a few sites, like Angelfire, that will give you a free website and even the tools to build a web page. The downside is that they finance this through having popup ads when someone logs onto your site which is rather annoying. However my daughter has used a couple of these and, despite the tools provided and with a little starting help from the famous Mudcat HTML guide, has now become quite proficient in writing her own HTML and even Java applets at only 14!

My own webspace comes as part of my broadband ISP subscription, i.e. I pay for it...but at least it's then completely under my control...

Good luck

mooman

Subject: RE: how do you get a web page
From: Bullfrog Jones
Date: 22 Nov 02 - 08:10 AM

Noddy, you can create a free basic website with soundclips at iuma.com. Most of the free webhosts won't let you upload music, so you can either create a site elsewhere and link to iuma(as I do here) or, if you don't need anything too flash, do it all on iuma.

BJ

Subject: RE: how do you get a web page
From: GUEST,rich_and_dee
Date: 22 Nov 02 - 09:39 AM

Hi,

A lot of internet service providers (like Yahoo), provide some web space to customers. I got a free web site through geocities many moons ago, before it was swallowed up by Yahoo. I think Earthlink, for another, also provides some sort of web hosting.

As was stated above, the down side of accepting one of these free web sites is your site will be full of ads, over which you have little control.

If all the advice hasn't discouraged you, check with your ISP's web site to see what services they offer. If the free web site isn't for you, there are web hosting companies out there charging under $30.00 (USA)per month. It is a tenuous business these days and I've seen more than a few web hosting sites just disappear overnight, so buyer beware.

Still, it's a bit of fun. Anyplace you do find to host your web site will also provides tools and tutorials for actually building your web site. The tools make it very simple, like filling in a template.

Subject: RE: how do you get a web page
From: GUEST,Rob Wright
Date: 22 Nov 02 - 09:55 AM

My brother designs web pages at very reasonable rates. He did one for my wife and partner in song Taggart and Wright. Our page is www.sky-web.net/taggartandwright/
you can contact my bother on [e-mail] and tell him I sent you.

Subject: RE: how do you get a web page
From: GUEST,Peter from Essex
Date: 22 Nov 02 - 04:02 PM

Any good ISP gives provides ad-free web space as part of the package.

Subject: RE: how do you get a web page
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 22 Nov 02 - 04:36 PM

Hunt around and you can get just about anything you need for a website for free without having intrusive ads, including masses of free space and freedom to use it for music files and all. (Especially music where copyright problems don't apply, such as your own music.)

There are people around the Mudcat who can gve advice and make recommendations - but just using Google you can find just about everything you might need in an evening.

Subject: RE: how do you get a web page
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 22 Nov 02 - 04:43 PM

DURN! I do so hate to agree with the anonymous GUEST!

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: how do you get a web page
From: GUEST,noddy
Date: 25 Nov 02 - 06:57 AM

thanks guys and gals. plenty to get along with and as usual prompt replies.

Subject: RE: how do you get a web page
From: GUEST,Peter from Essex
Date: 25 Nov 02 - 05:35 PM

Uncle DaveO

All the postings in this thread have names. Its just that some of us believe that cookies are the spawn of Satan.

As you are posting under a pseudonym what is the problem?