Recommend me a web host! (and a request for general beginners help...)

Solnyshko

Solnyshko

Solnyshko

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Been wrestling with this one for a while. I want to set up a site to host my back catalogue and new photo projects, but the guy who's promised to build it for me I've just about given up on. So... I'm doing it myself.

I've no experience in such wizardry. I considered off-the-shelf websites from the likes of Photium, Clikpic and Vodahost - but these seem like poor value and are inherently limited. Just started a 3 week course in web design, and picking up the basics of Dreamweaver - unfortunately very little guidance offered in the real-world nuts & bolts.

Recommendations for value web host & domain name company would be great.

Has anyone had experience with free tool kits such as Smartest - looks very impressive, and may well fill the gaps in my crappy skillset ;)

Just don't know where to start really, any pointers really welcome!
 
TSOHost or Vidahost

What are you planning on putting on it? Just photos? Try looking at wordpress with a photo theme, will save you lot of time
 
Mostly photos - embedded galleries/slideshows etc - but want the flexibility to add pages for photographic services, diary events and possibly a forum bolted on at some point.

Is wordpress similar to Smartest ? - bear in mind I'm a total novice!

I see a pattern emerging with TsoHost ;)
 
I have Vidahost and TSOHost. Both are great but I must admit that TSOHost went that extra mile for the same support ticket i raised :p

Vidahost told me the error of my PHP script, whereas TSOHost fixed it for me :)
 
Oxy said:
I have Vidahost and TSOHost. Both are great but I must admit that TSOHost went that extra mile for the same support ticket i raised :p

Vidahost told me the error of my PHP script, whereas TSOHost fixed it for me :)
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I spend my life fixing things for clients and always will if I have time so perhaps you caught me on a busy day / I thought it'd be better to teach rather than just fix :)

Edit: If I'm correct this was a weird character encoding problem? If so then I did help, but didn't get a reply to my last reply :p Mind you in that case I also didn't have time to find a fix for your script.

Could be wrong of course...but it's unusual for me not to fix things.
 
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I spend my life fixing things for clients and always will if I have time so perhaps you caught me on a busy day / I thought it'd be better to teach rather than just fix :)

Edit: If I'm correct this was a weird character encoding problem? If so then I did help, but didn't get a reply to my last reply :p Mind you in that case I also didn't have time to find a fix for your script.

Could be wrong of course...but it's unusual for me not to fix things.
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Yes once it was determined not to be an issue with the hosting i didn't expect help as it's not my webhosts problem. Tsohost provided a fix, admittedly after much googling I came to a better one. All my sites are with vidahost and will continue to be.
 
It was developed for that initially yes, but with its pages it's actually a very versatile and well-grounded general CMS anyway. Most of my sites are entirely Wordpress despite the blog being a minor part.
 
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