Advice on Building and Hosting a Website? Need Help.?

I am a beginner and would like to build and design a simple website. I am most interested in my content and functionality than the graphics. So, does anyone know of any simple to use website building software that is inexpensive or free? Any suggestions for software that also provides for functionality modules such as comments by visitors on articles, discussion forum, classified postings (e.g., product for sale, job postings, etc.), etc. Does anyone have any suggestions for good web hosting companies? I plan on doing the work myself. However, if I hired a website developer for a simple website, how much would that cost ($/project, $/hr, etc.)? Any suggestions on finding good and inexpensive website developers?Advice on Building and Hosting a Website? Need Help.?
I recommend http://www.hosttell.com/one They are one of the leading European web hosting companies, currently hosting over 500 000 websites. They have plans starting from $1.45. Every plan includes Photo Gallery, WebEditor, Google Adwords coupon and a lot more. Check them out.Advice on Building and Hosting a Website? Need Help.?
To build a website you need a domain and webhosting.It is recommended to purchase your domain and webhosting together. In this way it is possible to get your domain for free. Some webhosting companies offer this as a gift . The best one is hostmonster webhosting since they offer unlimited bandwidth and free domain with their webhosting package and on every signup they give free $100 credits to advertise your website with the google %26amp; yahoo search engines.





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You just need a web host providing easy to use site builder. This way you don't need to pay for any software to build youe website. Many reputable web hosts offer various creating website programs for free!





If you want to start your website I recommend purchase your domain and hosting together. In this way it is possible to get your domain for free. Some hosting services offer this gift today.





As an experienced webmaster I recommend BlueHost service which I’m sure it would work for you and fulfill all your requirements. They have a really great offer for hosting %26amp; I have used them for over 3 yrs now, and have never had a single problem with them.





They are a Multi-awarded Web Hosting which offer a Full-featured service only $6.95 a month. You can go there through the address below:


http://bluehost-plan.atspace.com





Here I have copied and pasted its features from their website to view:





- Free Domain Forever


- Unlimited Space


- Unlimited Transfer


- Host UNLIMITED Domains (Support All Domain Names)


- 2,500 POP/Imap Email Accounts


- SSH (Secure Shell), SSL, FTP, Stats


- CGI, Ruby (RoR), Perl, PHP, MySQL


- 2000/2002 Front Page Extensions


- Free Site Builder


- 24/7 Superb/Responsive Sales/Support


- Free Search Engine Submission





They also offer ';Free Site Builder'; that helps you build your web pages without difficulty if you are not skilled in using any website creating program. (WYSIWYG: What You See Is What You Get)





******IMPORTANT*******


* This service was awarded “The Best Web Host OF 2008”.


* If you sign up for this service you will have $100 credits to advertise your website with the google %26amp; yahoo search engines for free!


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Good Luck!
HTML TEMPLATE FOR BEGINNERS





what's the difference between a webpage and a website?





Webpage is a single page on the web,most often referred to [ personal ] as a ';homepage';





Website is a webpage with links to other content on the web.


this too can be called a website





HTML %26amp; C.S.S.





HTML [ Hyper-Tensive Markup Langiuage ] is the older command code structure to tell your [ and everyone else's ] computer how to display a webpage/site





C.S.S. [ Cascading Style Sheet ] is another [ newser ] command code being used extensively on the web today.





for ease of instruction,I'll use the older version [ HTML ] as it's still in the widest use on the web today.





here are some SIMPLE/SAMPLE html codes:





always start with:


%26lt;html%26gt;





enter the name of your webpage/site between the HTML TITLE codes





%26lt;head%26gt;%26lt;title%26gt;TITLE OF PAGE HERE%26lt;/title%26gt;%26lt;/head%26gt;





next you'll need a back ground


that can be either a straight color or an image.





color background:


colors can be expressed by using either the name of a color or color code


here I am using color names as thast's the easiest to use for beginners





%26lt;body bgcolor=';COLOR NAME HERE';%26gt;





so far,we have the following beginning HTML code:





%26lt;html%26gt;%26lt;head%26gt;%26lt;title%26gt;TILE HERE%26lt;/title%26gt;%26lt;/head%26gt;%26lt;body bgcolor=';NAME OF COLOR HERE';%26gt;





were we to use an image,it'd look like this





%26lt;html%26gt;%26lt;head%26gt;%26lt;title%26gt;TILE HERE%26lt;/title%26gt;%26lt;/head%26gt;%26lt;body background=img src=';URL OF IMAGE HERE';%26gt;





images used as backgrounds have to be an image that comes from your image hosting site. that is,you have to upload an image to an image webhost and use their web url as your background image





font or text size:


%26lt;font size=';1 (small) to 7(LARGE)';%26gt;





font SIZE %26amp; FONT COLOR


%26lt;font size=';5';color=';COLOR NAME HERE';%26gt;





center text:


%26lt;center%26gt;





so far we have:





%26lt;html%26gt;%26lt;head%26gt;%26lt;title%26gt;TILE HERE%26lt;/title%26gt;%26lt;/head%26gt;%26lt;body bgcolor=';NAME OF COLOR HERE';%26gt;%26lt;font size=';5';%26gt;%26lt;center%26gt;





OR





%26lt;html%26gt;%26lt;head%26gt;%26lt;title%26gt;TILE HERE%26lt;/title%26gt;%26lt;/head%26gt;%26lt;body bgcolor=';NAME OF COLOR HERE';%26gt;%26lt;font size=';5';color=';NAME OF COLOR';%26gt;%26lt;center%26gt;





show image and again,we use an image from your image hosting site [ like http://www.fotki.com ]





Show Image:


%26lt;img src=';IMAGE URL HERE';%26gt;





Aligning Image/s:


align image:


%26lt;img src=';IMAGE URL HERE';align=';left';%26gt;


%26lt;img src=';IMAGE URL HERE';align=';center';%26gt;


%26lt;img src=';IMAGE URL HERE';align=';right';%26gt;





Space or seperate text


single space:


%26lt;p%26gt;


paragrapgh:


%26lt;br%26gt;





text link:


%26lt;a href=';WEBSITE URL HERE';%26gt;NAME OF WEBSITE HERE%26lt;/a%26gt;





image link:


%26lt;a href=';WEBSITE LINK HERE';%26gt;%26lt;img src=';URL OF IMAGE HERE';%26gt;%26lt;/a%26gt;





End or closeing HTML Codes:





MOST [ but not all,like %26lt;p%26gt; or %26lt;br%26gt; or %26lt;img src%26gt; ] need to have a ';closing'; HTML code ';string';





Close HTML:


%26lt;/html%26gt;


Close Bacckground:


%26lt;/body%26gt;


Close Font:


%26lt;/font%26gt;


Close


Text and image links:


unlike HTML or Background [ codes ] text and image links place the closing HTML codes at the immidiate end of that command code or HTML ';string';





Link close code:


%26lt;/a%26gt;





example:


%26lt;a href=';WEBSITE URL HERE';%26gt;NAME OF WEBSITE HERE%26lt;/a%26gt;





there are MANY interesting things you can do to ';spiffy'; up your weebpage [ homepage ] like using Marquees





MARQUEE CODES





NORMAL


%26lt;marquee%26gt;TEXT%26lt;/marquee%26gt;


RIGHT


%26lt;marquee direction=';right';%26gt;TEXT%26lt;/marquee%26gt;


BOUNCE


%26lt;marquee behaio=';alternate';%26gt;TEXT%26lt;/marquee%26gt;


FAST


%26lt;marquee scrollamount=';number here';%26gt;TEXT%26lt;/marquee%26gt;


BACKGROUND COLOR


%26lt;marquee bg color=';name of color';%26gt;TEXT%26lt;/marquee%26gt;


SLIDE


%26lt;marquee behavior=';slide';%26gt;TEXT%26lt;/marquee%26gt;


SMALL


%26lt;marquee width=';number % here';%26gt;TEXT%26lt;/marquee%26gt;


BLINK


%26lt;marquee scrolldelay=';400';%26gt;TEXT%26lt;/marquee%26gt;


MIDDLE


%26lt;marquee direction=left width=';50%';%26gt;TEXT%26lt;/marquee%26gt;


%26lt;marquee direction=right=';50%';%26gt;TEXT%26lt;/marquee%26gt;





in the near future,I'll add other things like scrolling backgrounds,swipe backgrounds,ect.





but for now,this will be my





HTML TEMPLATE FOR BEGINNERS





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