Building a light website

[jamesterror]

Originally Posted by Terah

Stick WordPress on your hosting account. It's a very easy to use content management system/blog engine and you can install it from your godaddy control panel - should be under Install Apps.

Apart from ease of use there are also countless themes freely available so all you need to do is pick a design you like, create a page or two, and you're done. Very easy to add to later, both content and functionality wise.

Agreed ^^

You're probably best to use a Content Management System.. WordPress, Joomla, etc.

PM me if you need any help .

Originally Posted by jamesterror

You're probably best to use a Content Management System.. WordPress, Joomla, etc.

PM me if you need any help .

Or PM me if you like, as well

I've just moved to Hostpapa hosting (£2.95pm + VAT) over 3 years. Unlimited space & databases, domain for life, etc. They only offer one package (which has everything you could need), so the choice is eay. Just gets cheaper per month the longer you buy it for. Note that no host can offer you a .uk domain for a period less than two years.

I use xoops CMS for my sites (xoops.org), e.g. http://www.llanmon.org.uk/). Dead easy to use and manage.

Hostpapa, like many other hosts, have one-button install of losts of different software (wordpress, xoops, joomla, drupal, etc) so it couldn't be easier for the first-timer. Look for this functionality when choosing a host

[yorkie_chris]

I'm just in similar boat, just blundering my way through making pages with kompozer.

[the_lone_wolf]

Well, I've jumped in at the deep end, got my domain and hosting up, just waiting for the dns to update and I can start work on getting wordpress up and running...

Who needs sleep??

what hosting did you go with in the end?

[the_lone_wolf]

Went with Godaddy as they seem to offer a decent package at a cheap price - Once you get your head round the various terminology their control panel is quite simple to use

Paid something like £53 for a year of the domain and two years basic hosting option (10GB space and unlimited data usage - couldn't find any catches in the T&Cs)

Be aware they add VAT at the end of the process, bit annoying, and you can get 25% off the price by googling for a coupon code for the checkout

Wordpress is up and running nicely now, adding some pages, not going to reveal the url yet as it's definitely a WIP but if someone wants to see it PM me and I might give you the url so you can see the sort of thing that Wordpress can do...