Have you ever started a website?

ThinkAboutIt

Thinking about taking the plunge myself. Any AH advice?
Were you a flop/success?
Was it harder work than expected?

MidlandsM

porn ?

ThinkAboutIt

ThinkAboutIt wrote: »

Were you a flop
Was it harder than expected?

MidlandsM wrote: »

porn ?

must be

Duggy747

Geocities.

*shudders*

Seachmall

Don't tell my boss but...

>.>

<.<

Yes.

And I get paid for it!

Gummy Panda

Yes. It was called rubthebear.com

Got a load of gay guys for some reason before I shut it down

Biggins

ThinkAboutIt wrote: »

Thinking about taking the plunge myself. Any AH advice?
Were you a flop/success?
Was it harder work than expected?

Easy enough to do.
I run a good few.

Try (they are free):
www.weebly.com (dead easy)
www.wordpress.com

girl2

Whats this website gonna be about??

SunnyDub1

it depends how much effort and work and money you put into it.

I done a module on web hosting in college.
It's pretty easy to create the site , there is good software available to buy and download that makes the process a little easier. You also have to pay for a domain.

It's also very hard to get you page "known" to people, if you reach a high demand of hits you can pay google to include you in "popular searches" and bring your page up on there web results.

You can also pay for someone to do the whole thing for you :P

Good luck

biko

I have yes, a few.
They were informational sites about stuff, was just helping non-tech friends out.

Sky King

Dancing Jesus ftw!

Ghandee

I started my own website, it was all about me, had pics and what not.
Think it was called bebo or something.

SunnyDub1

Ghandee wrote: »

I started my own website, it was all about me, had pics and what not.
Think it was called bebo or something.

That's not starting a website that's creating a web page:rolleyes:

Rabidlamb

Did one last year for the wife's startup business.
I can't remember the figures but I think it cost about 20 quid for the .ie & €45 for the years hosting through blacknight.
I used their free software, Plesk, which was a bit of a dog but the results were OK.
It took about 20 hours to get the site looking like I wanted it before publishing so there's a bit of a learning curve.
They have plenty of templates to start with but if you need to change banners & use your own logos you'll have to get familiar with photo editing software.
I also nicked loads of generic icons off Google Images which is probably not the way to go legally.
Best of luck.

davet82

pffft.... geeks

token101

Piece of piss. Did one for my buddy's band and I'm contemplating doing a blog to improve career prospects (apparently EVERYONE has one I was told at a recent job interview).

Ghandee

SunnyDub1 wrote: »

That's not starting a website that's creating a web page:rolleyes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztVMib1T4T4

goose2005

1997 called, they want their thread back.

Lord TSC

I have/had two. My problem is I dont have a clue how to market them or get awareness out there...

I started a tech blog and I got a lot of hits and was quoted many times as a source by Engaget, Gizmodo etc. At the end of it I got like 80c in ad money so I shut it down.

Eric Cartman

I once started a site for organising Events for citrus fruit growers . First party we had , these 3 aul lads went a bit mad so I put the photo on the homepage. Weve had loads of visitors since then.

AnonoBoy

Back in 1996 I developed a children's character which my nieces and nephews loved hearing stories about. I was all set to launch a book about this character into the world complete with toys and a website.

However some fiends from American had already registered the character's name for their 'search engine' and so the project fell by the wayside.

I still look back fondly on my Google & Friends book every so often. He was quite the Zebra was Google. Quite the zebra.

Duggy747

My eyes, oh Jesus, my eyes!!

Please, make it stop!!

hardCopy

Anyone can create a website, the difficult part is creating content.

Snowie

my blog in my signature is a site more or less a web site... I guess.
its ok its been down on numbers due to a fatal accident of me dropping my camera.

But I got a new one should be here at the end of the week Get back on things..

bnt

Yes - years ago, had to write it myself. First version was raw HTML, next version was PHP, then I installed Wordpress on the server, then I moved it to the Wordpress hosted service. Then I shut it down, because there was no point to it any more. That was over the period 2001-2007.

These days, it's so easy to start a Tumblr or a Wordpress blog that any idiot can do it, and many of them are. So the problem now is not the website itself, but the content: if you don't have a compelling reason to do it, a unique message or selling point, then you'd be wasting the little time it takes. :cool:

Snowie

bnt wrote: »

Yes - years ago, had to write it myself. First version was raw HTML, next version was PHP, then I installed Wordpress on the server, then I moved it to the Wordpress hosted service. Then I shut it down, because there was no point to it any more.

These days, it's so easy to start a Tumblr or a Wordpress blog that any idiot can do it, and many of them are. So the problem now is not the website itself, but the content: if you don't have a compelling reason to do it, a unique message or selling point, then you'd be wasting the little time it takes. :cool:

Html sucks :mad:

and the html validator can suck my fvcking ball sack :mad:

Mr. CooL ICE

Rabidlamb wrote: »

Did one last year for the wife's startup business.
I can't remember the figures but I think it cost about 20 quid for the .ie & €45 for the years hosting through blacknight.
I used their free software, Plesk, which was a bit of a dog but the results were OK.
It took about 20 hours to get the site looking like I wanted it before publishing so there's a bit of a learning curve.
They have plenty of templates to start with but if you need to change banners & use your own logos you'll have to get familiar with photo editing software.
I also nicked loads of generic icons off Google Images which is probably not the way to go legally.
Best of luck.

hurr durr

thebaz

SunnyDub1 wrote: »

That's not starting a website that's creating a web page:rolleyes:

hey , I have a facebook page

saa

Yeah I set up an artist's website but some one called Xuing Wong in Beijing has bought "insert my full name".com which isn't that popular of a name..except for the porn star who I share my name with.