Tracey Posted April 7, 2013 Report Share Posted April 7, 2013 Hey Girls, I have wanted to get a website for a long time but feel like I am lost at sea. Has anyone experience with Go Daddy.com or any other web building sites?? Any advice for a newbie in this area?? Thanks.Tracey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AHuffman Posted April 7, 2013 Report Share Posted April 7, 2013 I'd steer you away from GoDaddy. They aren't well known for their responsiveness after the sale and their marketing campaigns make me want to throw things. I do love DreamHost. Love, love, love it. Of course, that is just hosting. As for the actual backbone of your site I'd recommend using WordPress. Buy a subscription to Lynda.com and take the Wordpress classes there. DreamHost has a one button WordPress install. Finally, look at buying a premium theme for WordPress. I love WooThemes but there are tons of other ones- just don't Google "Free WordPress Theme". There are evil downloads lurking there. Have fun! HTH! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cblevins Posted April 7, 2013 Report Share Posted April 7, 2013 It depends on what you want to use it for. I started one up quite some time ago on weebly. It is free and I thought it was fairly easy. I have not been on it or updated for a long time but here it is if you want to take a peek http://bitsandpiece.weebly.com/ actually I believe it is under my signature. I will get back to it someday soon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oireachtas Posted April 7, 2013 Report Share Posted April 7, 2013 Gotta agree with Angela. Go Daddy is up there with Hardee's on my list of companies whose marketing campaigns guarantee that I will avoid their products. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tracey Posted April 7, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 7, 2013 Oh my gosh. I'm afraid to admit that I have never seen a marketing campain of Go daddy. Just saw them last night searching for domain names and such. Thanks!! Thanks Cheri and thanks Angela. I will go check out wordpress and dreamhost now. My tea is made and everyone is sleepin' 'cept me!!! Heaven. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandra Darlington Posted April 10, 2013 Report Share Posted April 10, 2013 I think there is one Bob Purcell talks about on his Superior Threads newsletters. I think it belongs to a family member. Can't really remember, but maybe someone reading this has some info about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandalei Posted April 10, 2013 Report Share Posted April 10, 2013 My husband is a web developer, and recommends wordpress to those looking to start their own site: it has more features than others, and is pretty user friendly. depending on what you want to do, and how much bandwidth you're looking to use, there are a couple of options. Since we communicate between floors using IM (I know. we're nerds. Beats yelling at each other between levels, though!), here's exactly what he wrote: depends on what they need just a blog -> usewordpress.com or tumblr.com actual site, maybedreamhost.com By "actual site", he means where you register your own domain name. For example, my domain name is www.mandalei.com and I "own" that as long as I pay the registration. If I wanted to use wordpress or tumbler, the address for my site would be mandalei.wordpress.com or mandalei.tumblr.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonnie H Posted April 10, 2013 Report Share Posted April 10, 2013 I'm not sure if this is an option for wordpress, but with blogspot I can type my domain name (that I purchased) www.bloomingquilts.com and get to www.bloomingquilts.blogspot.com. It was something I set up in the settings. I wonder if maybe wordpress users have the same option so they can eliminate "blogspot" or "wordpress" or "tumblr." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AHuffman Posted April 10, 2013 Report Share Posted April 10, 2013 If you use something like Dreamhost to register your own website name then there would be no "wordpress" or "blogspot" or anything in the address. For example, my site is based on Wordpress and my site's address is QuiltedJoy.com HTH! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Sparrow Posted April 10, 2013 Report Share Posted April 10, 2013 lots of great info here. I use fxdomains.com for my registrar www.carpathiahosting.com for my hosting rapidweaver on a Mac for building the website joomla & wordpress are both very easy to build with as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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