Crash course on building a website

[whitehawk_2009]

Hey guys, I'm the deputy commander for my Civil Air Patrol unit and I've taken it upon myself to start up a website for us.

Now, I know I need a domain name and hosting but aside from that I have no clue.

If you guys have any hosting and/or domain names suggestion or things I'm missing, I'd really appreciate the help.

WH

[Ickie]

names are about 15 dollars a year
hosting as cheep as 5 dollars a month
you need to buy microsoft front page 2003, (this makes life easier for you)
the first page on website is called index all lower case

[Moparmike]

Whitehawk,
You can also dig up so decent info on site building with some Google searching.
I spend a bit of time browsing around this site, http://www.webdeveloper.com/ for ideas.

Ickie's suggestion of Frontpage is a good one and a pretty good industry standard.
I use macromedia Dreamweaver when I'm in Windows, but have used Bluefish and Nvu in Linux for several years. Nvu is now discontinued, but the Composer in Mozilla Seamonkey is nearly identical and both are open-source...free.
Arachnophilia is a freeware HTML editor that looks pretty decent but I haven't tried it. http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/
http://www.seamonkey-project.org/ (Mozilla Seamonkey Composer)

Good luck!

[NCGent]

Whitehawk go with yahoo, they have a tool called yahoo site builder that is so great and easy to use....lots & lots of extras also.

Chris

[Ickie]

we have a good deal here on the soh server, $125 a year gets you space and a dot com name.

[winslow33]

webs.com it's what I have. Free too. Exept you have .webs.com at the end... Really easy to set up once you get the hang of it. I have a personal website with photos there set up in under 15 minutes.:typing: