[christopherpostill]

Hey guys. I have 50mb of webspace with my ADSL service with FreeUK. I want to do something with it! probably make a website. Also have a domain - postillsystems.co.uk from one&one (Dads company) and would like to link it with that. I have SmartFTP and Front Page. Is front page easy to use? also is it possible to link free webspace to a bought domain?

dont know what i'd want to have my webpage about yet either...probs planes or FS2004. or both.

Is it easy? am a TOTAL newbie to webpages, only ever made a sort of wap site before to "host" ringtones so i could download them to my phone - before i got a data cable...

[Ian]

Frontpage is really easy to use If you can use Microsoft Word, you can use Frontpage no problem. The key is to keep it simple, and then build up from there.

Its a good idea to create a website, as it will be a useful skill for the future no doubt. A page on aircraft would be great, as you know loads about it, which is always a good starting point! You could always put up some FS2004 downloads (i.e custom aircraft).

I've actually been looking at one and one servers in the last few weeks for a dedicated server! Does your dad own that company, or work for them?

BTW, I made a wap site for downloading ringtones exactly the same

[christopherpostill]

I made a wap site for downloading ringtones exactly the same

Haha... I couldnt afford a data cable at the time but now i have my new phone i need the cable to download my photos to my PC.

Does your dad own that company, or work for them?

Well he owns the company - Postill Systems LTD. Its just him, he contracts out to big companies to program stuff - hence why i lived in Atlanta for 6 months in 1992 when he was with rediffusion simulation. In fact he just flew out to Holland (Rotterdam) today to test the software on some railway network radios hes been helping program for Siemens.

You could always put up some FS2004 downloads (i.e custom aircraft).

hmm... good idea! i'm sure there are certain copyright things and i wouldnt know how to advertise the site for people to upload their files. Besides, with each plane being inbetween 2 and 15meg each, the 50mb space would be used up real quick!!

A page on aircraft would be great, as you know loads about it

Yeah may stick to that and also have people link to i don't know, say photos they have taken of planes, or screenshots of cool FS2004 stuff

If you can use Microsoft Word, you can use Frontpage no problem. The key is to keep it simple, and then build up from there.

guess i am thick then!!

Regards, Chris

[floppybootstomp]

I've also got 50Mb of space from my ISP. I've hosted a few pix from there, but that's it.

I have Dreamweaver and Front Page, have looked at both briefly but never used them, haven't a clue, really.

Is 50Mb enough for a web site?

I too am a total noob to this.

Those with long memories may remember I've threatened to do this before, but I've always fought shy of it. Maybe it's time to check this thing out at last.

I also have around 200MB of space courtesy another Forum meister, of which about 80Mb is used hosting stuff, so I suppose I could link pictures across?

[Ian]

50MB is more than enough Unless of course you are hosting massive image (and hundreds of them!).

You should have a crack at it and make one - its good fun!

[christopherpostill]

Well a webpage must just be a standard kind of document which i image would be max 100k and whatever you have attached to it would be what eats the space.

having experience with webpages would be handy for my college course...

i dont know how to start laying things out in front page though - i always thought it was very complicated.

[Darkness]

most websites i make rarely get above a few mb in size.

As for making them dreamweaver is probably the best wysiwyg program, its looks a bit daunting at first but once you get to know it its easy to use for basic sites. I cant say ive ever realy used frontpage but i do know its used to put heaps of unwanted code in making your site slower.

I build all my websites in a text editor and ive just finished reading a book on web standards book which basicaly said you can reduce site loading time by about 30% if you use a text editor rather than a wysiwig although some wysiwygs can be quite good.

[christopherpostill]

all i know about wysiwyg is that it stands for "what you see is what you get"

[Darkness]

yeah, as in dreamweaver, frontpage, golive and other programs where you see what you are doing, i prefer text editors myself but if you dont know anything about web design and/or html then typing the code is not easy for beginners

[christopherpostill]

code is way over my head lol!

im hardware....