Would like a website !!!

[P.Pitstop]

Hi everyone !!!

Wondering if somebody can recommend a good starting point for creating my own website... preferably something that is free or v. cheap !!!

x x x x

[Peter]

Try Freewebs.com - you can make a free site (with advertising) and upgrade to your own whenever you want. Seems a bit complicated at first, but you get the hang of it after a few snotty e mails to their tech section! Have a look at my site - it's a freewebs premium site (about £35 a year I think). :wink:

[0103media]

Freewebs has ads..

Try www.googlepages.com no ads..

You just need a gmail account.. PM if you need one.. :D

[Bea]

Freewebs has ads..

Try www.googlepages.com no ads..

You just need a gmail account.. PM if you need one.. :D

since you mention it, what's all the fuss about gmail account. Someone asked me if I wanted one but I already have a few email addresses and didn't see the point, maybe you can enlighten us.... :roll:

[0103media]

The fuss was you could only get one by being invited to it ment you were special..

The account used to sell on ebay for $50-$100

all the time your account capacity is increasing right now its at 2702.312093 megabytes

Massive..

[gentle_giant]

Free webs is a great starting point for getting some web presence.

many people start using them to get themselves going, test the water and go from there.

When you need something more - an established shopping cart etc we found that Actinic Catalog V7(www.actinic.co.uk) was great. we used them to make our website www.purethoughts.co.uk and i learnt everything from scratch(no web designer was gonna charge me a fortune!)With a little practice and a lot of patience you can get yourself going on the internet and increase those sales!!

Good luck

[swirlyarts]

Hiya,

If you are after a shopping cart etc for your website then try os commerce - it's free and there are lots of forums to answer questions if you get stuck! My husband is slowly using it to change our website over so that we can actually sell stuff rather than just advertise what we have!! Also if you need web hosting then we have a really good deal - pm if you want info.

Lynsey

[sunbeam]

Hiya,

If you are after a shopping cart etc for your website then try os commerce - it's free and there are lots of forums to answer questions if you get stuck! Lynsey

Hi Lynsey! I've been eyeing up OS Commerce but it does scare me abit with all that php coding. Do you recommend any good OS Commerce forums?

Good luck with your site pitstop! :)

Sunbeam

[swirlyarts]

I will check with hubby and his friend who has used it a lot and I will let you know!
Lynsey

[sunbeam]

Thank yoooooo! :)

[swirlyarts]

I've sent an email to hubby's friend and I'll let you know when he replies. There is a community page on www.oscommerce.com and I'm sure that they will be able to help. If not try google - they have always come up trumps for me when I have wanted to find something!
Lynsey

[swirlyarts]

Hi,
Mark got back to me and his advice is as follows -

Go to www.oscommerce.com and click on solutions
and on network, then wade through the reams of info!

He also said that oscommerce is the best supported out there - there are other but he recommends that one because there is so much help and advice.

Good luck with the site - we are hoping to change our site over to oscommerce soon (well my husband is!) so if you want updates as to how it's going them pm me!!

Lynsey

[Seahorse]

My boss helped me set up a gmail account the other week.
How come I didnt have to be invited?

[0103media]

You can set it up now without a invite but before it was only us big adwords spenders that got them :D