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A project I'm working on requires me to map a domain name onto a third party server, OK I know this is easy stuff and there are hundreds of providers all trimming costs and offerring DNS services from home pc's.
But of the current plethora of registrars are there any you would recommend/avoid like the plague.
Some of our domains are registered with third party companies while a couple or registered with our hosting company. In fact we think our hosting company can do it all for us, so that's an option worth looking into. We may be heading in that direction for all our domains.
I mostly host the pages elsewhere so just use them as a registrar
Never had a problem with anything
Regards
Andy
4/3 Kit E510, E30 + 35macro, 11-22, 14-45 (x2), 14-54, 40-150 (both types), 70-300,
m 4/3 EM1MkII + 60 macro, 12-100 Pro, 100-400
FL20, FL36 x2 , FL50, cactus slaves etc.
The Boss (Mrs Shenstone) E620, EM10-II, 14-41Ez, 40-150R, 9 cap and whatever she can nick from me when she wants it
Once you've registered a domain name don't you have to find a host for the site? How do you go about choosing one, and how hard is it to look after your own site?
How hard it is to update all depends on complexity of design and a few other things such as the tools.
If you look @ my website you will note it is simple and classic because I'm not in business and want to be able to add a whole new gallery in 1/4 an hour max (including preparing the pictures).
I structured the same look across the whole site to make that easy. The original site took < 20 minutes to build
The tools side takes a little more thinking.
Most registrar's have hosting packages (I know Namesco do), and many ISP's have free website page hosting and some will take your domain onto their nameserver for no additional cost (mine Plusnet does). I suggest you look through your ISP's help pages to see what the offer before landing yourself with a paid for service
The maintenance should be fairly easy if you pick the right tools for your level of competence/complexity. I know people who maintain sites with MS word or MS publisher, or you could go all the way up to dreamweaver / flash. I just use Notepad myself and code the HTML etc. by hand, but that's because I learned it the old way and can't be botherered to learn a new tool.
You will need some FTP software to upload your files. Once again it may be built in, or your ISP may offer some, but you can get it for free. Good ones are CuteFTP and FTP explorer, but there are plenty more.
Hope that's useful. I'm sure others will have other opinions on tools, but it really can be easy.
Regards
Andy
4/3 Kit E510, E30 + 35macro, 11-22, 14-45 (x2), 14-54, 40-150 (both types), 70-300,
m 4/3 EM1MkII + 60 macro, 12-100 Pro, 100-400
FL20, FL36 x2 , FL50, cactus slaves etc.
The Boss (Mrs Shenstone) E620, EM10-II, 14-41Ez, 40-150R, 9 cap and whatever she can nick from me when she wants it
Ellie - it depends on your site and what you want to do with it. There are packages out there (such as Shozam which I use for www.temple-fry.co.uk) which will build your website on your home PC and then export it directly to your chosen supplier of webspace - all you have to provide is one destination parameter/password which your supplier will have told you. And the whole thing can be done without knowing anything about the underlying code/structure of a website.
But it does help to be able to code a bit of HTML and know the basic structure of a website. HTML is a very easy language to hack about and there are hundreds of dummies type books which provide complete examples of how to do things (or Google on say HTML Page Colour and then just copy the code). And an FTP client (File Transfer Protocol) is useful (I use SmartFTP - but there is very little difference in the products) - once you've pointed them at your site they work/look just like windows explorer and you drag/drop files.
Many hosting sites will get/register your name for you (which is the easiest route), but even if you are buying the name from one supplier and the space from another there are usually faq/helps with complete worked examples.
Shakespear allegedly requires an infinite number of monkeys clattering away on type writers. Web pages require far fewer monkeys - but like Shakespear can be largely copied from those that have gone before.
Ellie - it depends on your site and what you want to do with it.
Haaaaahahaha! As if I'd ever know what to do with a proper website!
I've got a blog that gets almost a picture a day, of varying quality. To be honest I don't know how I'd choose the pictures to go onto another site, or even if I've got more than half a dozen, from those I've already got online, that are worth showing off. That's one of the reasons I don't often put any pictures on here.
But it's still something to think about, maybe a project for the winter.
How do the rest of you choose what to put on your sites?
Sorry.... I could connect an RS232 port from the back of my head, connect via a converter to USB and download some of the techhie stuff into your brain (you may not like the result)
it's just like 2 windows explorer windows only one side is your local files on your PC and the other is on the website server and you copy files from one to the other when you've looked at them locally and are happt to share them.
How do the rest of you choose what to put on your sites?
Bit like John really i'm not doing it commercially so it's a case of "I think someone may like to look at that". it's just a showcase so when people ask what type of pictures I take I can show them. I could use Flickr etc, but just want a cleaner look to the screens than they give
Regards
Andy
4/3 Kit E510, E30 + 35macro, 11-22, 14-45 (x2), 14-54, 40-150 (both types), 70-300,
m 4/3 EM1MkII + 60 macro, 12-100 Pro, 100-400
FL20, FL36 x2 , FL50, cactus slaves etc.
The Boss (Mrs Shenstone) E620, EM10-II, 14-41Ez, 40-150R, 9 cap and whatever she can nick from me when she wants it
I also have several domains and have set up TLD for family and friends. Over the last ten years I have been with 'Host Europe' here in Germany, and must say have had no trouble or problems what so ever. In the uk 'Host Europe' is 'Webfusion'. They might not be the cheapest but there service is excellent. By the way I don't work for or with ether firm.
Mike
German radio Ham - Call sign DD5DJ
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