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Website creation help
8/4/09 | me

Posted on 08/04/2009 9:05:08 AM PDT by Feline_AIDS

Hey Freepers, I need your help if any of you web experts have the time.

I want to build a website. I have:

--a macbook pro, purchased from the libs at Apple 2 years ago.

--a godaddy.com domain name registered, as well as their free hosting

--new version of iWeb

--a tentatively built iWeb site

I want to:

--update my site often and use it as a blog

--allow comments if possible

I wonder:

--should I get a different web host? Every one I've looked into seems to have several comments disparaging it for being a rip off/ scam etc. Godaddy.com seems safe enough, at least for now, but I'd love to know of a better one.

--what's the deal with FTP and Cyberduck?

Thanks for any and all help, FA


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Hobbies
KEYWORDS: blog; help; internet; websites

1 posted on 08/04/2009 9:05:09 AM PDT by Feline_AIDS
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To: Feline_AIDS
Just go to Blogger.
They'll handle the details and
as you learn more tech

you can always get
more complicated later.
Simple is better.

From looking around,
it looks like many of those
"Alaskan bloggers"

are "just" Blogger sites
and they are influential.
Simple is better.


2 posted on 08/04/2009 9:11:58 AM PDT by theFIRMbss
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To: theFIRMbss

Going to google blogger is very good advice.

If you want to learn how to create your own web stuff - get a job doing it. They will pay you for learning as opposed to having to pay your own way!

lol..


3 posted on 08/04/2009 9:22:31 AM PDT by shineon
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To: Feline_AIDS
FTP "file transfer protocol?" is what you'd use to load lots of files to your site all at once. You build the site on your own computer, get it the way you like it, then upload it using FTP.
When you edit a file on your computer, or create a new one, then you use FTP to replace the old file on your server with the new one.

I use CuteFTP and love it.

Have fun!

4 posted on 08/04/2009 9:26:25 AM PDT by Rio (Don't make me come over there....)
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To: Feline_AIDS
You don't need iWeb at all if you just want to blog and allow comments. Any decent ISP will already have blog sofwtare installed or ready for you to install. Try here, cheap, reliable, good support, but not the fastest.
5 posted on 08/04/2009 9:29:25 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: Feline_AIDS
Here is my two cents:

1) Use Joomla (it's free)

2) Use a site that offers Apache and MySQL;

3) Use the Joomla plugins that are geared to Blogs.

It's really powerful software, it's free and you can do dang near anything with it, including blogs.

Freepmail me if you want to discuss further.

6 posted on 08/04/2009 9:45:08 AM PDT by lafroste (gravity is not a force. See my profile to read my novel absolutely free (I know, beyond shameless))
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To: Feline_AIDS; Swordmaker

Check out “Swordmaker” posts to all the Mac users here on Free Republic. On those threads, you’ll see the Macintosh users show up and you can probably ask a few there...


7 posted on 08/04/2009 9:58:30 AM PDT by Star Traveler (The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is a Zionist and Jerusalem is the apple of His eye.)
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To: Feline_AIDS


Make sure to include this file on your new blog. ;o)
8 posted on 08/04/2009 10:04:40 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: shineon
Going to google blogger is very good advice.

It's good advice unless you are publishing anything critical of Obama. Remember last year when the pro-Hillary "PUMA" Blogger sites were blocked by Google. The gay-critical MassResistance blog there has also been messed with.

9 posted on 08/04/2009 10:16:23 AM PDT by FreepShop1
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To: Feline_AIDS

InMotion Hosting is where I moved after the Yahoo debacle. GoDaddy sucks.

wordpress.com is also free and far better than blogger - which I tried years ago, same for typepad and some others. Google I would not trust - especially if you have problems you cannot fix yourself.

WordPress is found on most hosting services, is far easier to learn and more flexable than Joomla.


10 posted on 08/04/2009 10:21:50 AM PDT by PIF
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To: Feline_AIDS
Check out StratoCentric web site hosting. In the interest of full disclosure...I own the company. We target mostly brick and mortar businesses, but I can make an exception for a fellow Freeper. We don't overcrowd our servers and my cell phone is listed on our site, so feel free to call me any time with questions regarding your site...etc. The posts about the blog scripts are correct. You can load them automatically via your cpanel interface. Also, if you need help setting up your domain / email / etc...let me know. WillyD
11 posted on 08/04/2009 10:32:14 PM PDT by willyd (My Driver's License is under Obama's Birth Certificate officer.)
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