home page?????

[Whiskey]

Tractor folk:

This maybe better in some other part of this site or better yet on Country by net but, I thought about it while here so I'll post it here.

I have enjoyed looking at other folks "home page" or I think that is what you call them, the links that are on the profiles. Anywho, it gives you kind of a "feel" for someone when you can look at there place or hobbies or what ever and now that I've had a digi camera for about a year I would like to make one.

Are these "home page's" free and if so how do I find a good one to use. It needs to be simple as I'm not that puter smart.

PS: I have a lot of pic's so is there a limit on how many pic's one can post to these page's?

Whiskey

 

[GaryM]

Check with your service providor. Many provide space for your files that is low cost or free. Some even provide templates that contain the basics. You edit these templates to suit your needs.

If you want to get fancy you need an HTML editor. Some are free or low cost shareware. Check www.tucows.com and look under HTML editors. At work I use Macromedia Dreamweaver MX. It's a top of the line program, but likely more than you need or wish to purchase.

Ypu can put up as many pictures as will fit in the free or purchased space at your ISP. If your ISPs limits or cost doesn't suit you, there are other options such as Geocities. Do a Google search for "free web hosting" and you'll probably get some hits.

 

[F350Lawman]

As was stated before most/many internet service providers give you 5 megabytes or so of space for a homepage. You can fit plenty of low-res photos in that much space. Some have restrictions that the space is only for non-commercial use but that won't be a problem for you. They usually have templates or their own software for you. If you have Microsoft Office it comes with FrontPage which is a pretty simple program to create web pages with. FrontPage Express (free version) was also packaged with Windows operating systems so you may have that as well.

If you have Adobe Photoshop or even some other photo editors they have simple features where they give you the option of saving all the photos in a file as a web '"slide show" It's not fancy but it will write the code so that when you post it to the web all your photos will display in order. See if the photo editor your camera came with offers something similar.

As GaryM said DreamweaverMX is great but pricey and you probably will never use it's features. They do have demo versions to download if you want to try it for free.

 

[OkeeDon]

I started with the free space (5 megabytes) provided by BellSouth as the ISP, and a free web site builder called Trellix. In the meantime, I had a company website built by a pro and hosted on ValueWeb, which cost about $20 per month for a 50 MB host and 1 mysql database, and $35 per year for the domain name. Then, as prices came down, I signed up for a personal server on HostSave, 200 MB for about $10 per month, but no database services (mysql).

But, as in all things in the computer world, prices kept coming down. Not long ago, I signed up for a Reseller program at Page-Zone, gives me 2 gigabytes of storage and 10 gigabytes of data transfer, up to 100 domains to use myself or for others, unlimited subdomains, unlimited mysql databases, a php forum board for each site, unlimited POP email addresses, and more. Each domain gets their own control panel, as much space as I allocate out of my total bucket, as many mysql databases as I allow, a forum (like this one) and the email addresses. All that for a little over $20 per month total! If I chose to, I could resell enough of it to make a profit!

Next, I found GoDaddy, which will register domain names for as little as $7 per year ($69.99 for 10 years). I moved the company site and my personal site there, set up a site with a forum for a sports car group, gave the kids their own site, set up a site for my daughter's high school band, and still have gobs of storage and bandwidth. I now own about 10 domain names (some of which are just future sparks) and as much server space as many large corporations had just a few years ago, and my total outlay is about $300 a year.

Now if I could only find the time to build the sites. I have a couple of them started but not much content other than the forum on the sports car site and a gallery on my personal site. I finally found a wysiwyg web page builder I like and will probably buy it for $99 when my free 21 day trial expires. I looked at dozens, including Dreamweaver (too expensive, too complex, for me) before settling on this one - MoreMotion Web Express, which has more powerful versions available if I need to scale up (doubtful).

Just last night I put up a bare home page (nothing works except the gallery link) for my personal site Horner's Corner and expect to actually have something worth seeing in a few weeks. By the way, the gallery is powered with Gallery, a freeware php project. I haven't customized it much, yet, but it's loaded with features and is extremely easy to upload pictures and maintain.

For all of this, however, you need to learn some basic html (hyper text markup language), a bit of php (another language), a little bit of linux (which is what most servers use). I picked up an excellent book at B&N called "PHP, Apache and MySQL in 24 hours", which gave me the basics in addition to the little bit of html I already knew (it's really pretty easy at the basic level). Of course, like all computer-related stuff, you need the patience of Job, the ability to forget everything you thought you knew and the ability to tune out all the jargon and and excitement shown by the younger generation.

Whiskey, I know this is a lot more than what you wanted, but it gives you some idea of where you could get to if you just get started, with an easy site builder like Trellix and the free space provided by your ISP (Internet Service Provider, the people who run your internet connection). If they don't have any free space, switch providers. If you're using AOL, switch as fast as you can - almost anything is better and cheaper.