HOW CAN I CONSTRUCT A FREE WEBSITE? HELP!!!
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Gadzooks

Monday, June 10, 2002 - 02:49 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I want to create a personal website to post my artwork, but I don't want it to cost me anything...is there a way to do that? And if so, how do I do that and which website should I use?

Spygirl

Monday, June 10, 2002 - 03:14 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
That is a good question, gadzooks. I will wait to hear the answer, too :)

Twiggyish

Monday, June 10, 2002 - 04:29 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hi Gad.
You can use http://www.geocities.com for a free website. There are easy templates, too. There are many free sites, but geocities has a good set up.

1. Once at geocities, click on the sign up for free website. (Ignore all the "special" paying offers)
2. Follow the directions and look for the easy builder. That will direct you to your own site.

It takes a while, but you can soon learn how to upload your art. Be sure to put a copyright at the bottom, or other people will help themselves to it.

Good luck!
(Any questions, let me know)

Twiggyish

Monday, June 10, 2002 - 04:33 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
One more thing, if you don't want to use your own email account, sign up for a free one first.

To work on your graphics and artwork, try http://www.jasc.com and download the trial graphic editor, Paint Shop Pro. It's a great program. If you download that one, I have a ton of tutorials you can try that are easy.

Gadzooks

Monday, June 10, 2002 - 10:05 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Twiggy.......thanks so much for the information. I'm going to try geocities and if I get stuck I'll come back and ask some questions.

Much appreciated.......

Willsfan

Tuesday, June 18, 2002 - 06:51 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Does anyone know how to adjust the size of the ad banner on the free sites?

I would rather have the ad on my page rather than the pop-ups but the banner ads totally screw up my pages with borders.

Angelfire and Tripod both have two pop-ups now. One wasn't enough. And Geo-Cites I know nothing about...everytime I try to go to some of their sites they say, "Bandwidth Exceeded."

Any suggestions? I only do my site for fun but some people get soo mad when they see pop-ups that they are emailing me and complaining. wow

Babyruth

Tuesday, June 18, 2002 - 07:48 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
This site lists free web page sites. You may find it useful.

Click here for Free Web Pages

Willsfan

Tuesday, June 18, 2002 - 08:12 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks Babyruth. There are a lot of free hosts that are probably much better than the two I choose, but in 1998 everyone was recommending Tripod and Angelfire.

And....I have not got enough motivation to move upteen pages and hundreds of images to a new site. If I only had a couple of pages I would move in a flash.

Oh well, until I have time to play around with the HTML people will just have to live with the pop-ups.

Mssilhouette

Wednesday, June 19, 2002 - 12:18 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Tripod has gotten a bit restictive and like geocities started to pay for some freedoms. Overall though they at least give you the choice of having a banner or a pop-up. Um AOL homepages aren't too bad and they have a webpage builder.

With the cheap prices for web hosting and doman name registration it might just be better to spend the cash.

Well since it's going to be your artwork and a personal site then free might work. Now if you're going to actually try and showcase your work then you might later on want to spend the cash to look a bit more professional than a free site will allow.

Juju2bigdog

Monday, July 08, 2002 - 11:14 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Bumping this thread up because I needed the information today, and some others might too. don't want it to get clipped in the BB3 frenzy.

Well, and I suppose I should just copy it out and save on my hard drive ...

Thanks again, Twiggyish and others who contributed here.

Sage

Monday, July 08, 2002 - 12:19 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Bravenet is good place too, if you don't mind the ads and popups. I bought a space there so I don't have the ads and such. Geocities is very nice too, I have a site there as well.

Twiggyish

Monday, July 08, 2002 - 01:16 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I've tried a lot of the free websites, but geocities seems to work the best. I like their upload features and file management area the best.

Jules

Monday, July 08, 2002 - 09:08 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I am on geocities, I signed up with bravenet to get there free guestmap and other things, but when I try and copy and paste the html to my site it wont let me do it, it shows the html when I preview my site, any ideas on what I am doing wrong? Also, I heard that you cant put music on your site unless you want to get sued, I understand the copyright and everything but I just want some music on my site. Can someone help me with these problems.

Mssilhouette

Tuesday, July 09, 2002 - 11:36 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Sometimes Jules, if you miss a closing bracket > or an opening one < that can make all the difference. :)

If I could see the page on your site I might better be able to tell you what's wrong.

Jules

Tuesday, July 09, 2002 - 11:49 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
thanks, Mssilhouette, Ill check that and then Ill let you know.

Willsfan

Wednesday, July 10, 2002 - 04:23 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
To check your page on Netscape & Explorer click on "View" then Source. This shows the HTML on the page and sometimes a mistake will flash on and off if it is a bracket or other simple error.

Jules

Thursday, July 11, 2002 - 12:31 am EditMoveDeleteIP
thanks yall, i havent had time to check it yet, since bb3 started lol. ill get to it soon hopefully.