Website Creation

eashton · 22 Aug 2011 at 23:36

I was wondering if anyone can help, I am going into self employment as an Architectural Technician doing plans etc. I am wanting to create a simple website to get me started, but I want to be able to keep updating it myself. I know the domain I want is available in both .co.uk and .com formats so want to get it as soon as possible.

Thanks in advance.

anuraj · 22 Aug 2011 at 23:37

http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp

I learnt quite a bit from there.

TNGL · 22 Aug 2011 at 23:47

Try something like Joomla out.

eashton · 22 Aug 2011 at 23:48

Moses said:
If the .com and .co.uk are available, buy them now and then work out how to do the site?

Where is it best to buy them from?

J86 · 22 Aug 2011 at 23:49

eashton said:
Where is it best to buy them from?

I've personally always used http://www.123-reg.co.uk/

eashton · 22 Aug 2011 at 23:50

Fisha said:
I've personally always used http://www.123-reg.co.uk/

Thanjs for that.

PermaBanned · 23 Aug 2011 at 00:00

anuraj said:
http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp

I learnt quite a bit from there.

This is good but there are a lot of mistakes - use it but remember that it is NOT gospel.

http://w3fools.com/

Oh, and wrong subforum.

Buchanan0204 · 23 Aug 2011 at 00:51

1. Register your domain (123 reg is fine) or names.co.uk
2. Pick a hosting company, (5 quid host are amazing) UK based support and respond quickly to problems/queries.
3.install Joomla or wordpress on your domain (one click install from Cpanel) comes with hosting.
4. Pick a nice template from anywhere, install it
5. Edit the words on the website.
6. That's you done!

TNGL · 23 Aug 2011 at 00:56

Buchanan0204 said:
1. Register your domain (123 reg is fine) or names.co.uk
2. Pick a hosting company, (5 quid host are amazing) UK based support and respond quickly to problems/queries.
3.install Joomla or wordpress on your domain (one click install from Cpanel) comes with hosting.
4. Pick a nice template from anywhere, install it
5. Edit the words on the website.
6. That's you done!

If he's running Joomla he doesn't want a slow and crappy host. Joomla is quite resource intensive, so maybe £5 for a shared host with a hundred other websites running on it wouldn't be substantial.