To create a homepage..

badb · #1 10-16-2010, 05:44 AM

Hello.

I've been playing guitar my whole life, and now i've desided that its about time to create my own homepage with videos, photos, concertsdates etc. Im willing to spend time, energy and resourses to make a fine and proffesional-looking webpage which i easy can update myself.

My question is:

Whats your experience with homepages?

How and where do i start?

Can you recomend someone whos creating webpages?

All the best.

billkath · #2 10-16-2010, 05:54 AM

A good way to start for beginnerss is buying a template. Just Google "website templates"-- there's millions of them. You just add your stuff to them. Much easier than buying the software and doing it from scratch.

ohlcv · #3 10-16-2010, 01:53 PM

Simplets - and free - way to create a web site is using Google sites. You need a Google account, again free, and which you may already have.

Learn more about Google Sites

badb · #4 10-17-2010, 04:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by billkath

A good way to start for beginnerss is buying a template. Just Google "website templates"-- there's millions of them. You just add your stuff to them. Much easier than buying the software and doing it from scratch.

Hello, i been looking at these templates, seems pretty easy.

Do you just find a template you like, download it and then "add it" somehow
on you .com domaine?

billkath · #5 10-17-2010, 07:43 PM

Yeah. When you build a website,you normally have a folder, which contains lots of html pages and folders etc. You normally upload the whole lot. That folder is usually called "public". The front page of any website is normally called "index"(although it "looks" like it's called "home" or something.
That's the first page that's looked for. Everything spins off that.
I'd say it'd all come with instructions. If not, your ISP will give you the instructions.

badb · #6 10-18-2010, 06:00 PM

Whats an ISP?

Otherwise, sounds cool.

Sounds pretty easy, You just buy your .com domaine, find a template, fill ind the info and thats pretty much it?

billkath · #7 10-18-2010, 07:26 PM

Internet Service Provider. Or-whoever is hosting your site. There's a thing called masking-it's so your website can be called "MySite.Com" instead of http://www.internetserviceprovider~myhomepage.com It'll forward people to your site.
Yep-it's pretty easy----when you know how!! In relity, it can be quite complex.
Google Sites, as mentioned above, pretty much takes all the hard work out of it. And they host it.