Need advice on creating a website

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Moocher

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I have almost no experience with coding. I wanted to create a website, like a blog type thing...where I could post and write about my different computer builds, inventor images etc (Something similar to Squibler.com). I want to be able to host this website from my computer at home (so basically the site is only up when my computer is on)

What will be the best/easiest language for me to learn so I can accomplish that goal? And can you recommend books, online tutorials etc that i can use to learn it?

Is it even feasible to host my website from my home pc (the website is not for business, just leisure for now)
 
Matthew1990

Matthew1990

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As far as I know you need to pay to host a website. You can create a forum for free or a blog. Webistes are very complex, you need to know HTML which is confusing for begginers. There are websites creators but they are not as good as HTML.
 
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Moocher

New Member
Oh that's unfortunate, I didn't want to use a website that creates the code for you (Like geocities or something like that). And I thought you could host your own website for free? off your computer?
 
Euklid

Euklid

Member
You can host a blog for free right at wordpress.com, or you can download the
software at wordpress.org and upload it to your own host.

-Cost-
Domain: $9.50US/year
Hosting: $2.50-$40.00/mon

You can use your own computer, but then you have to turn your computer into a
website server. It means you have to download Apache2Triad, and then you have
to run your computer 24/7 so anyone can connect to your website. Basically, there
is no way running it from your home will be as stable as hosting it on dedicated
servers. You will have lots of downtime -- for example, thunderstorm takes out
your power. Reliability is a key issue for having a friendly website for your visitors.
 
seecor

seecor

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of course u can host it off your own computer.. :D
and if u go to DynamicDNS they give u a free DNS name
hook that up to ur ip .. map the ports and your halfway there..
download PHP & MYSQL to your comp set that up..
download wordpress and your away..
 
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9Ker

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One word: Wordpress!

I run a couple blogs using Wordpress and I swear by it. There's absolutely no need to be able to do any kind of coding; honestly, unless you really need to create a website from scratch for business/personal reasons, I'd just make it easy and stick to WP if you're just looking to put up a blog...

As far as hosting goes, you can get a monthly hosting subscription through hostgator for less than $10/month for a single site. I mean, we're all on budgets, but if you can't afford an extra $6-$7/month then you might want to consider a better job. :D
 
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webmaster1105

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No need to do all these things...

If you are storming your brain so much for the sake of just a blog, i would say its totally waist. Creating a blog now a days is as easy as creating an email id.

As suggested by someone you can make it on wordpress or if you want more easier way, go to blogger. If you want no one to guess its made on blogger, do following changes:

- remove header or upload a free template without header
- Map it with your own domain, you can get one free from www.co.cc
- change favicon

You dont need to buy any hosting account to make a site on blogger

Do let me know if you stuck somewhere:good:
 
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Moocher

New Member
The whole point of this is that i want to learn how to create a website...it's the experience more than anything that I wanted to gain. So you guys would recommend me creating something else apart from a blog to start with?
 
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9Ker

New Member
Moocher said:
The whole point of this is that i want to learn how to create a website...it's the experience more than anything that I wanted to gain. So you guys would recommend me creating something else apart from a blog to start with?
Click to expand...

Well, it sounds to me from your original post that you do want to just create a blog...are you planning on using this site you're going to build for anything else? Selling, for instance?
 
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Moocher

New Member
No. I just wanted to find out and a good programming language to learn for web building, and create a website for leisure.
 
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techdude

New Member
Like I told another user, I work for a tech firm that has a web hosting arm and could give you a deal on hosting. I'll even help you out with learning website building/development if you like. Let me know. The site is www.zorveo.net
 
Jonyboy

Jonyboy

New Member
Not sure if I entirely understand what you intend to do, but if you're looking to merely learn html and css, then I would suggest http://www.w3schools.com/ Then I would suggest creating a folder on your own computer, and start creating pages and linking them together. Other people won't be able to access your site, but you can learn the language.

If you're interested in doing that, then I or another member of this forum could explain more.
 
Jonyboy

Jonyboy

New Member
Well, my best advice would be to head over to that website I suggested.

My 2 second tutorial would be:

create a folder called "my site", open up notepad and create a textfile called index.html

In their, write the code:

Code: 
<html>
<head>
<title>Hello World!</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>This is a header</h1>
<p>This is a paragraph</p>
</body>
</html>

Save the file, and open it in your web browser. Your on the first steps to creating a full site. I'm sure the other members can give you better help though, and I would be interested in any resources they provide.
 
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zblowfish

New Member
Euklid said:
You can host a blog for free right at wordpress.com, or you can download the
software at wordpress.org and upload it to your own host.

-Cost-
Domain: $9.50US/year
Hosting: $2.50-$40.00/mon

You can use your own computer, but then you have to turn your computer into a
website server. It means you have to download Apache2Triad, and then you have
to run your computer 24/7 so anyone can connect to your website. Basically, there
is no way running it from your home will be as stable as hosting it on dedicated
servers. You will have lots of downtime -- for example, thunderstorm takes out
your power. Reliability is a key issue for having a friendly website for your visitors.
Click to expand...

Wordpress themes are great for beginners.
 
xuniter

xuniter

New Member
you can host your website on your pc you must have static ip address or if you dont have then go to no-ip.com and register and make a port 80 redirection you'll see it.
The best language for begginers is php i believe, i started with that.
No-ip also provides you a DNS name instead of ip address...check it out
 
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