What is the best way to make a free website for someone who has next to no HTML skill

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I currently have this site:

www.joshuathomson.tk

I would like to know basically of either some program or template based freehost to make a website with that is better than weebly.

Cheers.

 

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For photos? If so Gallery may be useful.

it says u download it, I don't get what ** supposed to do with it. sorry im a total noob

 

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Ah. Maybe it isn't for you then. You need to manually install it on your webhost (which must support the PHP programming language, and probably some kind of database) - or you could always host it on your own computer maybe, it's pretty easy to set-up

Failing that.. there's always flickr or Google Pages

google pages has expired for new sign ups, and flickr isnt really what I'm looking for. but thanks.

I'm willing to do the gallery thing if you could explain what to do step by step, but you probly dont have time

 

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Doesn't require any programming, but you can get Joomla up and running by :

downloading it
ftping it to your root of your web directory
extracting it (may have to do this first if you don't have rights)
going to your site and setting it up

You will require : ftp access, php, mysql... and you need the username and password and address that the CMS can use to access the database.

As I said, just follow the instructions online and you are good to go!

ok, I don't know how to ftp something to a web directory or what that means.

And I don't know what PHP or MYSQL is. nor CMS.

 

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Do you have access to CPanel with your host? (If not, probably a good idea to change hosts). Then you could just use 'Fantastico De Luxe' and that has a lot of gallery, blogs and CMS software you can easily install with a few mouse clicks.

What is a CPanel? I don't think I do.

Can you spec me a freehost that has a CPanel?

 

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000webhost

So I've signed up, now what?

 

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In Cpanel there should be a section called 'Fantastico De Luxe' or something similar. Go into there, and there's a list of programs you can install. It will ask for a username and password, then set up all the databases for you. Then give you a link to sign in.

its not free

 

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what do i do here:

 

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Could you not just use something like blogger instead, simple sign up and that's all. Alternatively try a host that supports wordpress and use the template/plugin system to modify the look/usage.

I can't make a blogger or a flickr because I already have a google acount with my email address but I've forgot the password/email/username

 

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well create another one then.

another hotmail?

bah, what good is blogger anyway? isn't that for blogging not website making?

 

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why another hotmail? just create a new google account.

you just can't be bothered at all can you? just give up and get back to the testing forum.

No not at all, you can't make new google acounts unless you have an unused secondry email.

 

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Hello? Just go to gmail.com and sign up there. It will create a gmail address for you which will allow you to sign into any google service.

I've done it now, but what google service can i make a website with?

 

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thanks for that post, that has helped.

I'm gonna go away and google the various things in it now lol

 

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You're welcome, if you have any questions google can't answer feel free to post back....

right I've gone away and googled some stuff and I think the pixel post thing posted seems to meet requirements.

Although it will require a tiny bit of html/css/php knowledge, I would very much recommend pixelpost; http://www.pixelpost.org/ for a photography website. It's what im using now (not live on my website yet though as im finishing the new version of the site off) and it features a creat content management system, has loads of addons and support for it and can create a good photography site.

is the site your sig links to using pixelpost?

I'm not quite sure how you upload your website with it, as I don't have a server atm, how do i find a server that is:

PHP 4.3 or greater (w/ GD-lib)
MySQL 3.23.58 or greater

I was going to point you to this thead:

http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=39766&highlight=pixelpost

which is a guide to setting up pixelpost, but it appears the images are no longer there so I hope it still makes sense. I did put a copy into a word document when I first set mine up so I'll have a look see if I can find it for you maybe..

seems like you need to be a member of the forum to view that page, just going to sign up now.

 

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If you go to the gallery.... then no. That's using monoslideshow. If you remove the .php after gallery then you will be taken to the pixelpost version (Please excuse it if it breaks, as im working on it at the moment.).

oh yeah, that's pretty nice.

I just need a free server/ftp/domain now.

I still don't really get how FTP/servers/domain all work together, because I've always used freehosts in the past it's been kind of all in one.


edit: downloaded pixel post now and ive just got a folder full of random folders and files which mean nothing to me

 

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£15 a year is a lot to me. I have no income I'm still at school.

It has to be free.

 

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Did you not sign up with 000webhost?

no it cost money

 

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http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=12520235&postcount=11

yeah i thought i had but it only signed me up to co.cc

 

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Well you'll still able to use that to host the files. And if you have a domain name already, you'll be able to redirect that, to point to the 000webhost server.

no the co.cc thing is just a domain. and my current domain (.tk) is just a redirctor