I have a small carpentry company.  Id like to build a simple website with some info, and maybe some before and after photos.  Can I build this myself?  I have no web building experience.  Are there user-friendly website to help me?  What are monthly or yearly rates to keep it?
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If you are a true novice and don't want to spend much time learning how to make a site, I would suggest the current super-popular MySpace. You can quickly get your information up for all your friends to see.\n\nIf you are interested in something more, but still fairly simple try GeoCities or Yahoo.\n\nIf you are willing to learn HTML I would suggest ATSPACE.COM. You can create a website for FREE up to 50MBs in size. I have two websites through them and the uptime is great. You'll need an ftp program to upload your stuff. There's a good free one for personal use called "FTP Explorer". Of course you'll either need to learn HTML or use one of the WYSIWYG programs like FrontPage or DreamWeaver to actually design your site. e-mail me if you need some help...\n\nIf you want your own domain and have it hosted, I suggest ReadyHosting. You get 1GB of space unlimted e-mail accounts, FTP access and domain name registration all for $99 a year.\n\nWeb hosting site (FREE):\nhttp://www.atspace.com\nWeb hosting site (COST):\nhttp://www.readyhosting.com\nFTP Explorer site:\nhttp://www.ftpx.com\n\nA couple of my websites:\nPioneer Baseball Website (ReadyHosting - Cost)\nhttp://www.pioneerbaseball.org\nMy Son's Travel Team's Website (ATSpace.com - FREE)\nhttp://tricountytitans.atspace\nFamily Website (ATSpace.com - FREE)\nhttp://tim8w.atspace.com
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If you are a true novice and don't want to spend much time learning how to make a site, I would suggest the current super-popular MySpace. You can quickly get your information up for all your friends to see.\n\nIf you are interested in something more, but still fairly simple try GeoCities or Yahoo.\n\nIf you are willing to learn HTML I would suggest ATSPACE.COM. I have two websites through them and the uptime is great. You'll need an ftp program to upload your stuff. There's a good free one for personal use called "FTP Explorer". Of course you'll either need to learn HTML or use one of the WYSIWYG programs like FrontPage or DreamWeaver to actually design your site. If you need some help, e-mail me...\n\nWeb hosting site:\nhttp://www.atspace.com\nFTP Explorer site:\nhttp://www.ftpx.com\n\nA couple of my websites:\nPioneer Baseball Website\nhttp://www.pioneerbaseball.org\nMy Son's Travel Team's Website\nhttp://tricountytitans.atspace\nFamily Website\nhttp://tim8w.atspace.com
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Book:\nInteresting, the 2nd link is the Site Builder manual and doesn't say anything about it.  \n\nSwitch to Nvu--best free one I've tried.
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Cut out the 1&1 out of the picture and use ebay. You will learn Pay Pal there and get a little experience. Then if you want to do the 1&1 that would be fine but you might want to be more in control of your own site and business in which case I'd go with Yahoo Sitebuilder as any novice can build your own website with their software. My site costs $11.95 a month and I love it.
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Of course you can. If you have an email account at Yahoo! then you can build your own web site at Geocities. You can do so at MSN Spaces, Angelfire, ..etc. Actually there are a lot of FREE hosting services on-line. Kindly, try on of the following FREE sites. After you sign up, you will find 2 ways to build up your site; by a wizard (recommended if you do not know HTML), or by an advanced way (if you know some HTML and coding). I hope you send us your web-site soon. I am sure it will be wonderful.
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Depends on our needs and what you want to accomplish on the website.  MP3.com is a very extensive corporate site with millions of hits per day.  It's unlikely you will require a website with this type of infrastructure.  You can build yourself a free website if you're just starting out at http://geocities.yahoo.com/ or http://www.v3.com/.\n\nThere's also plenty of free web templates on sites like macromedia http://www.macromedia.com/software/dreamweaver/download/templates/\nor if you like flash you can use http://www.flashloaded.com/templates/freetemplates/\n\nThere really is an unlimited amount of resources out there to build your own website for free, especially if you're just starting out.  Database scripts and functionality are not necessary at the beginning so don't get sucked into this type of purchase if you don't need it.  Assess your exact needs first, your audience, your design, and then proceed.
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download sitebuilder from Yahoo webhosting tools, and get started! For an example of a good website made with site builder, check out mine...www.goldengirlminingcompany.com
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Look up http://www.excelyourbiz.com \nto learn how to build a professional business website on your own without the high cost of paying for a webmaster for free or for a low cost. They show you everything you need to know to build your own web site. \n\nThey offer advice and guide you through the steps to \nbuild your very own web site. Basic computer skills are needed\nand you don't need to be a computer whiz to build your own website.
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If you're not selling anything, $20 a month.\n\nEZLAVA.com has a WYSIWYG, click and drag web site builder program that would be ideal for you guys.  They have advertising & radio styled designs too.  They also do custom web design.  But most importantly, you save a ton of money by managing the site yourself via their web builder system.  And they aren't one of those crappy freeware sites with the crappy templates and limited software you find everywhere on the net now.\n\nIt really doesn't matter if you go out of state.  You limit yourself if you don't.
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Hafsee,\n\nFirst of all, I would like to congratulate you for your interest in building your website. Please pursue your objective without giving it up. \n\nThere are many fee website that would allow you to upload your home page. You can create your home page using any html editor such FrontPage or Netscape. You will need to create a free hosting account in any of the websites that I have mentioned below.  These sites will allow you to upload your home page for free.\n\nhttp://www.geocities.com/\nhttp://freeservers.com\n\nIf you want to have your own domain name, usually, it won’t be available for free. You will have to buy one. But, to start with, I would suggest you to host your pages in one of the above free hosting websites.\n\nTwo years back, when I built my webpage, I registered my domain name in www.namezero.com for free. But, after one year my account got expired. I am not sure whether namezero.com still provides a free domain name. You might try over there.\n\nAlso, there are several blog sites such as blogspot.com etc. You may be interested in trying out any one of them. The interesting part of blog sites is that they are much more interactive. People can give their feedback on your writings through the message postings. That might be helpful to you to assess your writing skill. So, that could be the right place to put together your thoughts....\n\nAll the best for your new website building/writing efforts.....
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well... I'd say you could start by going to freewebs.com and make a website there... it's free and they have some basic layouts for you... the only downside is that your website comes with advertisements on it... If you want your own server Yahoo I believe has it wher eyou can register a domain for $9.99 I think for a year... but then you'd have to buy a server and/or run the website off your computer.\n\nIf you want it professional looking and don't like freewebs.com and want to design it yourself... that's where it get's expensive and I'd suggest using Adobe Photoshop and Macromedia Dreamweaver...\n\nPhotoshop for graphics and Dreamweaver will help you with setting up the pages to where they look nice..\n\nOther then buying those two programs... Freewebs.com is the only place right now to help you get started at least with a basic website...\n\nI'm a graphic designer myself and have helped design websites... you can email me and I'll help you design your website and all... You'd just once again have to pay for a domain then a host if you're not planning on hosting it off your computer.
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:: Learn some basic html concepts.\n:: Follow some tutorials\n:: Find free web hosting service\n:: register a domain name\n:: start with prebuild templates available on most websites.\n:: And these tutorials below\n:: have fun learning
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Currently websites are missing for basic engineering. If u can built website related engineering basics it will be of great helpful to growing buddies.
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Try Microsoft Live Office. You can build a website for free for a limited time, but if you move up to the $30 month it's much better. Start with free & see how it goes. I'm currently building a website there & while it's a bit of a struggle I'm sticking with it.
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Start a website seems to be the easiest thing. It won't cost you much and will put your work out there. With the right amount of promotion ... hey who knows.\nI design websites myself, but I'm quite busy right now, but if you search the web I'm sure you'll find someone to do it for you for the right price.
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"If you build it, they will come" .....\n\nThose words DO NOT APPLY to websites.  You have to give your audience a REASON to come.  \n\n* Free, useful information is one way.  How about "10 little known features of Windows XP" or "How to make PDFs without buying any software", or "How to test your Internet connection speed".  Or how about an "Inspirational Quote of Day"?  \n\n* There are lots of places to find FREE content for your site.  It's supplied by cyber-authors that want to promote themselves and THEIR sites.\n\n* Google Adwords does work, but there's a cost there.  If you can afford it, it's worth the money. \n\n* Pay attention to your metatags, keywords, page titles, etc.  The previous answerer gave good info on that.\n\n* Sign up for some free opt-in mailing lists.  You'll receive a lot of junk mail, but you'll have another avenue to promote your site.\n\n* Set up an affiliate program and offer good commissions.  A good affiliate program will give you lots of reps.\n\n* The world's dumbest jokes make their way around the world via e-mail.  Figure out how to use that to your own advantage.  Maybe you can put the first part of a joke in an e-mail, and the rest on your website.  Hmmm.\n\n* Join a free link exchange program.  \n\n* Join some targeted Groups on Yahoo.  Join the groups that seem most likely to need you services.\n\n* Offer reduced rates or reasonable rates to known companies.  Show them how your services are cheaper than hiring employees.\n\nGood luck!
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Hi!\n\nWell, I presume this will be a website showing you off, vs. a generic download site...\n\nSuccess will all depend on how well you market yourself, how "close" you make your members feel and how fresh you keep your content. \n\nI knew a girl who lived off of her web revenue for a couple of years... she was considerably overweight, but even with that, she was able to get enough monthly memberships to make around 30K / yr with almost NO marketing, web expertise, etc.\n\nHow much to start? Hard to say, but if you start small and build up, you can begin for virtually no money. \n\nDo you know how to do web coding, etc? \n\nI too am considering a concept for a site, but it will take months of planning and more money than you will need, because no one wants to see this guy "nekkid"..  :)\n\nFeel free to contact me with any add'l questions.