I want to create a website for my university's alumni. I was wondering if there is any free application available for this purpose. OR any low budget option available.
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do an askjeeves.com search!
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Career fairs are ok.  Does you university have a placement office?  Even if you have graduated most schools have resources for alumni.  Also, try joining the professional association for your field.  They often waive the joining fee for recent graduates and the unemployed.  These associations often have job listings on their web sites or in their newsletters.  Their meetings and seminars are a good place to network.
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why dont you use a free website builder like nvu and upload the html files to yahoo...NVU offers much more functionality than yahoo builder\n\nwww.nvu.com
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Nothing is free but how about a low start up cost and thats it no monthly fees or anything? Try this  http://www.webspawner.com/users/enterdataathome/
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Hello\n\nFrom your question I guess you are intending to make a CMS(Content Management System). Making one such thing from scratch is very difficult. However, there are free CMS software available. Joomla! is a free one but it might be a bit difficult if you are a newbie :(.\n\nHope this helps :)
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have you registered it with search engines (ex: google, dogpile, altavista) there's links right on their pages. i think most are free, but some may charge. good luck! (PS you might've included a link...i'd have gone to it! *lol*)
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there are few websites where you have to register and get free access. some website asks for some more freinds details.\n\nWebsites are \n\nalumni.net , classmates.com , batchmates.com , namesdatabase.com
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Do you mean one that doesn't cost any money?  If so, you're on the site.  Yahoo lets you set up your own personal website for free.
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University of Nigeria Alumni:\nhttp://www.universityofnigeria.com/alumni.htm
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Good for you!:-)\n\nLet me suggest that you begin your search at these two sites:\n\nhttp://www.sourceforge.net\nhttp://freshmeat.net/browse/18/\n\nThe two sites above hold a large number of searchable and browsable Open Source Applications. It is possible that a web application exist that will allow you to administer a site like you described (though the devil's in the details:-)\n\nI generally work within a technology set that's referred to as LAMP. This is a combination of technologies that incorporate Linux (Operating System), Apache (Web Server), MySQL (Database) and PHP (Scripting/Programming Language). Within this technology set are a wide and varied set of Open Source applications.\n\nBelow are two examples of some of the community service applications that I've come across. I haven't conducted any searches for anything specific but do like to keep track of developing technologies and collect links for future reference.\n\nhttp://www.activismnetwork.org/developers/\nIt encourages networking between groups in the same social movement, and networking between different social movements. When movements grow, then organizations grow too.\n\nhttp://www.sahana.lk/\nSahana is a Web-based disaster management system and collaboration tool that addresses the common coordination problems during a disaster from finding missing people, managing aid, managing volunteers, tracking camps, and managing aid effectively between Government groups, the civil society (NGOs), and the victims themselves.\n\nThere are also sites like the one listed below where like minded individuals can get together for any number of purposes:\nhttp://www.meetup.com/\n\nSocial networking is huge these days as a result of myspace. There are quite a few commercial myspace clones on the net, as well as epal sites, etc... Of course, tweaking an existing application depends on exactly what you want to accomplish.\n\nFor information sites ("need to know where to get help"), you might want to look at Content Management Systems (CMS). One of my favorites is:\nhttp://www.opensourcecms.com/\n\nThe site above does a great job of delivery demos of many popular CMSes, Blogs, etc.. If you visit this site, be sure to access the Admin Areas of the demos. Usability is important and many applications fail to deliver in this important area.\n\nBest of luck!
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We used EZLAVA to create our web site.  A friend referred us to EZLAVA, saying it was what they used and they loved it.  So we tried it and agree, it's awesome.  \n\nWith the program, you don't have to know HTML, PHP, ASP, or JavaScript.  It does all that for you via a central admin that appears when you click on an object (images, text, forms, etc.) to make changes.\n\nWe started on a blank edit page (studio area), and uploaded our own graphics into the database.  Using the program, we set up one main web page template using our graphics. We were able to drop all of our graphics onto the page at once.  Then we set up our links and saved the page as a "custom template".  EZLAVA calls them custom templates.  They are pages or content layouts that can be added to multiple pages over and over.  It saved us a bunch of time. By creating one web page with all your page links and graphics, you can apply that layout to any web page you need.  And those templates can be locked.  So when you make a change to the template, it makes those changes site wide.\n\nIt also has a dynamic shopping cart builder, form builder, html text editor, and every other feature you'd need.  We use it in tandem with Photoshop to do all of our web stuff.  But they do have web site designs already within the system.  So if someone wanted to use them, they're free.  They also have tons of clipart photos and graphics for use on your web pages.\n\nOverall, it's really easy to use.  We found the EZLAVA software definitely worth it!
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Yes, You can go to Yahoo Geocities and create a webpage. They have full directions on how to do it.\nAnother host is www.freewebs.com. Just google "Free web hosts". It's That Easy.
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I'm afraid I can't be much help, however I did consider taking this course a couple of years ago.  At this time the Open University allowed student reviews to be posted on the website (every course used to have a section where past students posted reviews, but the OU has discontinued this now unfortunately).  Anyway, I know I no longer wanted to do the course after I read these reviews.  Many said they struggled.  Many said they wished they had a better understanding of Web Applications before they started the course.  So it really depends on how confident you are and how much experience you've had in this area.  All I know is that past students who started with no knowledge or experience struggled.
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ThE rEaL aNd BeSt AnSwEr Is\n\nSorry .Com Domains are not free but you can get FREE SUBDOAMINS like yourname.shorturl.com\n\nTry This Site\n\nwww.shorturl.com\n\n\nSince this is yahoo, try Yahoo Geocities or Google Page Creator. Just take some time to read some of their tutorials. They are both decent web page creators. Geocities is better because it has been around longer. Google Page Creator is still in beta.\n\nOwning a website like yourname.com takes some experience and knowledge. And you have to be able to enter into a contract to own a domain. And you need to comprehend HTML and Javascript. The ability to make graphics on your own.\n\nFrEe HoStS:\n\nFirst TRY www.GEOCITIES.com/\n\n1)Free\n2)Easy to use\n3)online tools like page builder\n4)counter\n5)guestbook\n6)You can upgrade at anytime to your own domain\n7)web address like geocities.com/YOURYAHOOID\n8)15mb of space\n\nOther Sites\nwww.freewebtown.com/\nwww.netfirms.com/\npages.google.com/ \nwww.sitesled.com/\nwww.freewebs.com/\nwww.bravenet.com/\nwww.angelfire.com/\nwww.tripod.lycos.com/\nwww.free-webhosts.com/\nwww.50megs.com/\nwww.20m.com/\n\nand MaNy MoRe
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What do you mean with "real website"? a "dot com" domino?\nNo, there isn't. Only subordinated sites as geocities, yahoo, msn and others offer us free spaces to do it.\nActually you don't need pay to have your own website, you have to pay to have your own domino (like mypage.ownsite.me) registered in DNS databases.
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If you're a non-technical person, then chances are you'd have to hire a programmer.  Creating something like Yahoo Answers would be a huge undertaking.  It's basically a web application.  Other kinds of web applications are things like webmail (Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo mail, etc.), Google maps, Online calendars, etc.  If your project is totally unique, you definitely won't find any ready-made tools out there to solve the problem for you, you'd need to create it from scratch.  \n\nIf you're technically able, what you need is to choose a hosting platform:  Linux or Windows.  On Linux, you'd be writing the application is PHP, on Windows, you'd be writing in ASP or ASP.NET.  Choice between the two would depend on many things, including:  your budget, your familiarity with Linux vs. Windows servers, programming tools and languages (PHP or ASP). \n\nIf you can't do it yourself and can't afford to pay a programmer to do it, there are a couple of other options:\n\n1) Create a project on SourceForge.net.  SourceForge is an open source software community.  Many developers visit there and lend their skills and abilities to various open source projects.  Create the project, given lots of detail in the description, and then you can "post" a developers-wanted ad on the site, to try and entice others to help you.  The down-side of this procedure is that you couldn't charge for use of the web app, since it's open source, and others could take your code and develop their own  competing web communities.\n\n2)  If your idea is a business venture, go looking for a developer (programmer) and tell him or her that you'd split or give a percentage of the business to him or her.  Then, with your partnetship, you could make it happen.\n\nAs the previous poster suggested, if it's just a forum you're trying to create, phpBB is good, as long as you host on Linux servers.  There are other good forum packages for ASP, but I won't list them here.  However, if you want something customized and different that your typical run-of-the-mill forums, you'd need to create it yourself.\n\n\n\nGood luck!
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Why not ask the students what they would like to see in your website. Get some student friends to conduct a survey. Revenue could come from advertising. Or may be a local business sponsor would help. Is your student union not able or willing to help?