Setting up a website can be easy and extremely cheap, if not free, (when you know how). Try following these instructions or get someone to help you.
(I am assuming you have an Internet connection to start with to have got this far.)
Obviously there is more to it than this, but I wish I had had a tip like this to start out with.
Get a book such as "HTML in a Weekend" to get you up and running.
- Go to Supanet.Com web site.
- Go to the SIGNUP section on the left hand side. Follow instructions to create a new account.
- This will also create a new e-mail address but Supanet will also give you some free web space - which is what we are after.
Choose a user name which will look good in an e-mail address, to look something like yoursite@supanet.com
- The website which Supanet will provide has the address like http://www.yoursite.supanet.com
- Supanet will talk you through creating your first web-page actually on this site. Alternatively you can create the web-page on your own
computer and upload it using FTP (File Transfer Protocol).
I use WS FTP which is free and can be downloaded as a ZIP file from WS FTP
- Unzip WSFTP into a new folder and run the executable file contained - you will then need to enter the username and password Supanet has
given you, and indicate the directory containing your web page.
Like all computer instructions this may seem strange, but it does actually work!
Your first web page need only say "Hello World!" but once this is done it is half the battle. I usually write html mostly "by hand" -
in the specialised (freeware) html/text
editor "MatrixY2K" - which also gives you a lot of help.
The simple text for this file is:
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE> Hello World! </TITLE></HEAD>
<BODY>
Hello World!
</BODY>
</HTML>
and the file should be called INDEX.HTM
OK, with a bit of guidance this should work and you should be able to access your Hello World file at http://www.yoursite.supanet.com
A further step is to create a URL (Unique Resource Locator) which looks like a proper web address such as "www.yoursite.org.uk".
To do this you can register at 123-reg.co.uk and again follow the instructions for "web forwarding" to your Supanet web space.
Selecting and assigning a URL costs under £10.
Once you've got the hang of it then develop your skills with Micrsoft FrontPage, etc, or find a web-site designer - but it helps to get the mysticism out of the way first!
As a final tip - some graphic and photo-management programmes will create web pages wholesale from your graphics library. Use WS FTP
to transfer these pages to your newly created site.
Contact
Two more providers of free e-mail and free webspace:
Freeola
Tesco
And three collections of free providers:
100 Best
No Pay
Free Bee
To print this page press CTRL A then CTRL C and then paste into a blank wordprocessor document by pressing CTRL V - and then Print!
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