SO I am going to need a small but informative website shortly for a new business venture, what is a good (reliable and reasonable affordable) webhosting company to use? also can I build a good enough looking site with frontpage?

thanks

11/14/2006 9:53:44 PM

Most people around here, including me, use Dreamhost. You get the most for what you pay for with them. Their basic plan should be more than an enough for a small business. They also support frontpage extensions, if you use those.

I've never really used frontpage, but i'm a fan of dreamweaver.

[Edited on November 14, 2006 at 10:31 PM. Reason : ]

11/14/2006 10:30:16 PM

learning PHP doesn't really have anything to do with being able to design a nice site. you can PHP-it-up all you want, but if you suck at designing, it will just be a shitty looking dynamic site, instead of a shitty looking static site.

n/m - ^ got rid of the php suggestion.....


if you want to do this yourself, i would suggest finding some free/open source design templates and working from there. Or, install Wordpress and use it as your backend and use any of the thousands of templates for it.

[Edited on November 14, 2006 at 10:34 PM. Reason : .]

11/14/2006 10:34:10 PM

use a referal code for dream host & get the first year of hosting for $22

11/14/2006 11:10:06 PM

where can i get a referral code?

dreamweaver is another web editor? same with wordpress? what is a backend?


i miss the good old days of plain jane html

11/14/2006 11:40:30 PM

ahahaha

A+ thread

11/14/2006 11:51:33 PM

How much traffic are you expecting to get? The answer to that questin will determine what kind of host you need.

11/15/2006 12:28:54 AM

I dont know. More than a little bit but no web forum or anything.

11/15/2006 1:09:44 AM

dreamhost or one of the thousands of similar outfits will serve your needs just fine

11/15/2006 2:13:43 PM

Frontpage made me want to vomit years ago, although I haven't looked at it in the past 5 or so.

But if your shitty at designing websites its going to suck no matter what program you use, but I guess that goes both ways also so you could use frontpage and have something that looked nice.

I've always just prefered good ol notepad.

11/15/2006 2:32:53 PM

what think you all of this here......


http://www.templatehelp.com/pr_interface.php?cols=4&rows=3&sadult=0&sp=0&bgcolor=%23ffffff&type=9&category=0&pr_code=UW01naV75k7m2757526UZpv2A4FYc5&callfrom=http://www.endicosoft.com/templates.php&ref=http://www.endicosoft.com/templates.php&extref=http%3A//www.endicosoft.com/support.php

11/28/2006 11:06:11 PM

lol

11/28/2006 11:08:36 PM

this one is perfect, for whatever you need

11/28/2006 11:13:30 PM

some of those flash templates are pretty good.

i was impressed.

11/29/2006 7:40:25 PM

http://forums.slickdeals.net/showthread.php?sduid=0&t=382322

dreamhost 19.41 one year.

[Edited on November 29, 2006 at 8:46 PM. Reason : 1]

11/29/2006 8:45:33 PM

is a flash site like that one going to kill my bandwidth?

12/13/2006 1:47:47 PM

either way, you 90% likely don't need a flash website

12/13/2006 2:39:50 PM