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I have a question that hopefully some of you guys can answer.
I'm putting together a Sole Proprietorship for the wife and going to help her make and market her website. First, obviously, is the domain name purchase + hosting of it. I was looking at GoDaddy.com and wondered what you guys thought of that? I don't have any experience really in code and website creation, but wondered if anyone has any experience with it here. I guess my questions are:
1.) Is it ok and cost effective to use godaddy.com domain name registration + cheapest hosting level
2.) Is there easy to use GUI interface to make the website?
a.) If so, do I also have customizable options
3.) Am I just totally stupid here and missing something? Is there an easier answer to all of this?
Anyone do any of this on the recreational side of things and want to help me get it started? It's a corporate branding company and it's pretty exciting to learn about, you might actually learn a thing or two :)
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1) I know a lot of people who use godaddy for the domain names - however, as a general rule I always try and keep registration and hosting with separate companies; otherwise things can get complicated if you want / need to move your hosting. 2) depends HUGELY on what you're trying to achieve. There's plenty of excellent content management tools out there (things like Drupal, Joomla) which will allow you to do a lot of things without having to be a web wizard - most hosting companies will provide those sort of tools as standard.
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I wouldn't be having a "checkout" tool, or trying to sell products directly online, rather selling company image, capabilities, and driving the ability to want to learn more. So I don't know that that would be enough information to warrant a recommendation, but any feedback or direction is awesome!!!
Also, keeping into consideration this being a start up, one thing I do want to ensure is that expenses do not exceed revenue (which at this time is $0). But keeping into consideration that some expenses are needed, particularly at launch, we do know that it's going to cost some money to keep up, but we want as inexpensive as possible right now. So basically I really only want to purchase the domain name ($16.99 or whatever it is) + basic hosing ($71.00 a year). That's kinda what my estimates are. The rest, I assumed would be done on a trial and learning basis.
Again, I'm possibly missing the point here, or going about this all wrong.... but eh, you never know your capabilities if you don't ask what's available and what other's opinions are.
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A lot of times ISP's offer free hosting of websites. Check with whoever you use at home to see if they have this option. Then you can just buy the domain and have it forwarded to the url of your free webpage (most domain registration sites offer this) I know a couple of years ago I made an informative site for my father-in-law who owns his own business and the only cost was the domain name purchase. Search the net for some free web design programs, there are plenty out there. Some are just 30 day trials but that's plenty long enough to build your site.
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Rot, you rock bro...
ISP <--- So if I have "Sprint" Wireless Card as my source for ISP provider, you're saying that they might have an option for me to buy a domain name from dodaddy.com and then have that URL forwarded to my "free webpage" (if offered)?
Anyone have any recommendations on any easy to use and customizable PC based (non-coded only) web designers? 30 day trials are absolutely fine, I have like 400 e-mail addresses.
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Dardore wrote:Rot, you rock bro...
ISP <--- So if I have "Sprint" Wireless Card as my source for ISP provider, you're saying that they might have an option for me to buy a domain name from dodaddy.com and then have that URL forwarded to my "free webpage" (if offered)?
Anyone have any recommendations on any easy to use and customizable PC based (non-coded only) web designers? 30 day trials are absolutely fine, I have like 400 e-mail addresses. 1. Yes2. Check this out, I haven't used it but looks to be highly recommended http://www.download.com/CoffeeCup-HTML-Editor/3000-10247_4-10003347.html?tag=mncol
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