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web design for dummies

HamjuHamju Registered User regular
edited June 2009 in Help / Advice Forum
Ok so basically my mother-in-law is an artist and wants a website to showcase her art and have contact information for ordering etc. She also wants me to do it (will to pay me wooo), but I don't know html or pHp (yet... me learning one of those and then doing this site is an option).

But, I don't know anything about my options for web hosting. Ideally I'd like to set her up with a unique HTML (www.soandsosart.com or whatever) and build a simple page, either using html or with a non-coded gui setup. So... I know this is pretty open ended I'd just like to know what the options and various price ranges are for this kind've thing.

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  • mullymully Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    I use godaddy.com. I have 2 domain names, and hosting. The total is about 60 dollars USD per year. Their site is a little confusing, but you get used to it.

    For learning basic HTML, I recommend this site:

    http://www.funkychickens.com/main.asp

    This is how I learned. It's an ugly-ass site, but it is easy to learn from. Just make sure you understand things before you just slap them down.

    Another pointer: Design your site on paper first. How you want it to look. Then, DESIGN it in Photoshop. Go to HTML from that point, after slicing all your bits up.

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  • OrogogusOrogogus San DiegoRegistered User regular
    edited June 2009
    On the recommendation of forum members here I went with http://www.holeinthewallhosting.com/, which provides 400 MB for $10/yr, on top of the $10/yr for domain name registration.

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  • HamjuHamju Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Sweet those look like they could work. The in-laws were asking about Sympatico hosting as well. The free stuff is really small and weird. Does anyone have any experience in their "upgraded web space" or just the free web space with having an account there?

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  • AndorienAndorien Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    http://htmldog.com/ gives excellent tutorials on both HTML and CSS (which is probably all you'll really need, especially for the moment), and they also teach you how to do it the right way (using <div> and <span> with CSS to do page layout) rather than the wrong way (tables tables olol).

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  • OrogogusOrogogus San DiegoRegistered User regular
    edited June 2009
    People recommended me http://www.w3schools.com/ when I asked about learning CSS, and it served me well enough.

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  • LewishamLewisham Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Honestly, learning HTML is probably OTT. You're going to make things hard for yourself. What's wrong with a CMS like Google Sites, or self-hosted Drupal?

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  • JasconiusJasconius sword criminal mad onlineRegistered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Finally, Lewis guides the thread towards the realm of sanity.


    Here's the deal guys. The internet. It's been around a while. Guess what, your mother-in-law is not the first artist to use the internet.

    There are a lot of sober minded artists who've had the same thoughts about what they wanted out of a website and they've come up with a few handy solutions for everyone to use.


    Instead of wasting hours of your life churning out what will inevitably look terrible and be buggy and have hosting expenses, why not investigate largely free, easy to use, and aesthetically pleasing solution.

    DeviantArt comes to mind. Not only can she host her art there, but there's a rather robust contact system built in.


    Don't reinvent the wheel. Unless you have some predefined driven desire to pick up web design skills, you'd be doing her a favor by leveraging the awesome might of the internet to meet her needs. And if DeviantArt doesn't cut it, some prompt googling will probably reveal a dozen other options, free, or equitably priced.

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  • supabeastsupabeast Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    indexhibit.org

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  • LewishamLewisham Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    supabeast wrote: »
    indexhibit.org

    Oh... that looks nice. *bookmarked*

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  • SzechuanosaurusSzechuanosaurus Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited June 2009
    Lewisham wrote: »
    supabeast wrote: »
    indexhibit.org

    Oh... that looks nice. *bookmarked*

    Judging from their recent examples, there may be one or two security flaws with indexhibit.

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  • WillethWilleth Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Orogogus wrote: »
    On the recommendation of forum members here I went with http://www.holeinthewallhosting.com/, which provides 400 MB for $10/yr, on top of the $10/yr for domain name registration.

    A quick search on the web for Hole in the Wall reveals a link that gives 500MB storage and 25GB bandwidth for the same price. http://www.holeinthewallhosting.com/i.php?l=23544322008280636082029967

    For domains, I recently bought one through http://www.namecheap.com and it works great.

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