Question about Website building?

[Ozzy]

Anyone have any experience in building websites? I looked and supposedly there are websites that helps you build your own, and it looks easy enough. And supposedly is only like $5 a month for it.

I am speaking of homestead.com.

Anyone familiar with that or know more about building your own website?

Thanks!

[hobbes2053]

My friend's brother makes websites all the time, but he's not on here :(

[eating perogies baked]

The method you go about developing the website depends entirely on what you want the website to do...

Need more details.

[Ozzy]

Sadly, it is posting just opinions and or rankings just as I would on any standard message board.

[djp]

Anyone have any experience in building websites? I looked and supposedly there are websites that helps you build your own, and it looks easy enough. And supposedly is only like $5 a month for it.

I am speaking of homestead.com.

Anyone familiar with that or know more about building your own website?

Thanks!

There are a few things that come into play when you build a website.

Domain names seem really cheap but in reality the real cost is the hosting, coding, and design that you'll pay for. Ask Scott if it costs $5 a month to run this site. I'd bet he pays a ton of money on web hosting and probably paid for his coding as well (even though it's basically HTML which is simple).

It probably won't cost much to host your website at first, but if it becomes popular and the bandy dries up from your original purchase you will have to buy more.

I'm not sure what your intentions or idea for a website is, but I would suggest using a blog at first to see if people are interested before you want to invest money into a website and the stuff that comes with it.

[eating perogies baked]

Sadly, it is posting just opinions and or rankings just as I would on any standard message board.

I would just use something like http://www.blogger.com for that. No reason to pay for hosting or even go through the trouble of custom-coding your website.

[awfullyquiet]

There are a few things that come into play when you build a website.

Domain names seem really cheap but in reality the real cost is the hosting, coding, and design that you'll pay for. Ask Scott if it costs $5 a month to run this site. I'd bet he pays a ton of money on web hosting and probably paid for his coding as well (even though it's basically HTML which is simple).

It probably won't cost much to host your website at first, but if it becomes popular and the bandy dries up from your original purchase you will have to buy more.

I'm not sure what your intentions or idea for a website is, but I would suggest using a blog at first to see if people are interested before you want to invest money into a website and the stuff that comes with it.

Well. Part of why scott pays so much is his traffic, hosting this PLUS his website traffic is TONS.

If you're looking to build your own site, you're better off though looking into wordpress as a sort of build your own blog-template sorta thing.

There are people who'll build for you for cheap, like 100 bucks for a project like that.

oh. and homestead is ****.

[Ozzy]

Ok so general idea is it is a total waste of time. I used to help run a draft website with a few other people, two different times actually. One of them really was going good but the webmaster was starting college and it became too much work.

Like really all I want is a way to post rankings and post thoughts, and have cool graphics but even that, supposedly one cannot just take any picture off the net and use them because a photographer took that picture. I wonder how Scott gets his images, unless there is a pool of free ones the AP takes or something.

Blogging though, no one reads blogs, seriously, sports blogs, I looked slightly into that and there are none of those.

[eating perogies baked]

Ok so general idea is it is a total waste of time. I used to help run a draft website with a few other people, two different times actually. One of them really was going good but the webmaster was starting college and it became too much work.

Like really all I want is a way to post rankings and post thoughts, and have cool graphics but even that, supposedly one cannot just take any picture off the net and use them because a photographer took that picture. I wonder how Scott gets his images, unless there is a pool of free ones the AP takes or something.

Blogging though, no one reads blogs, seriously, sports blogs, I looked slightly into that and there are none of those.

Realistically nobody is going to read what you write anyway. That's not meant as an attack at you, just the reality of the internet.

[awfullyquiet]

Realistically nobody is going to read what you write anyway. That's not meant as an attack at you, just the reality of the internet.

unfortunately.

blogs don't have to be 'blogs'. but you can use free blogging software for a bunch of different concepts.

[dolphinfan2k5]

www.freewebs.com should get the job done for you. I think it's still around, and you won't have to know anything about html, you can use their web builder to set it all up.