Website Designers?

[Guest guest]

I have seen some of the previous replies and see that

you have gotten some good advice so far. I would also

encourage you to try setting up the page yourself.

There are several free tutorials online on using

HTML. Just go to www.google.com and search under the

words " tutorial " and " HTML " .

If you have a full time connection to the internet

you might consider hosting the site yourself. I am

doing this now. All you need is a PC and software that

is available free on the internet by download. Here

are some of my personal preferences:

Operating system: Linux (Slackware) http://www.slackware.org

Web Server software: Apache http://www.apache.org

(You want the httpd server)

Additional stuff: Php http://www.php.net

Sablotron http://www.gingerall.cz

A few months ago I decided to try to set up a web page

and serve it myself on my own PC. I used the software

above and read the documentation. Most of it is arranged

in a step by step process. For my requirements, I wanted

to see if I could set up a site that would be " dynamic "

in content. That is, the page would change according to the

input of the user. I also wanted to set up a database with

records stored in the form of XML. (see www.w3c.org).

I had no prior experience doing this but in the course

of several months and doing it part time I managed to achieve

what I wanted to do. Here is the result (it is not complete

but more a " test site " . http://213.84.71.105/

One additional thing to do if you choose to host your

own site is to register a domain ie) www.myplace.com

You can do that easily via several places. One is

http://www.dotster.com

[Mel Siff: Another very reasonable place to go is:

http://www.godaddy.com ]

My recommendation is to " go for it " . If it gets beyond

you than bring in additional help. At least you will

learn a lot in the process. Good luck,

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houserules_2000 wrote:

> This is a little off topic but it does relate to my career as a

> personal trainer so I felt my questions were pertinent to the lists

> conversational scheme. I have been considering hiring an individual

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Staniewicz

Amsterdam, Netherlands