Where Do You Build Your Personal Website??
Wednesday December 3, 2008
I'd like to write more tutorials for people who build their own personal websites. To do that I first need to know what you all need. Where do you post your personal website? What parts of creating your personal website using an online editor have you had problems with in the past? What kinds of things would it be helpful for me to write about?
Thank you for your help!
Lin
I’m leaning toward writing about Google Sites. Do you think this is worth my writing about? I need your opinions!
I think some good topics to encompass would be free hosting vs paid, purchasing a domain (if needed), web editors vs downloadable editors, and static sites/profiles vs blogs.
Thank you Wardell! I never thought of doing comparison articles.
How about ideas on tutorials? Does anyone have ideas about tutorials I can write?
Hi Linda, glad to find your site. It’s very informative and surely will visit you more often, since I’m newbie in building good website. Thanks.
Linda Roeder
Personal Wed Page Guide
About.com
The New York Times Company
249 West 17th Street
New York, NY 10011
personalweb@about.com
Hi Miss Roeder:
I have been holding off doing a website because I (as well as others I think)do not know where to start!
And then the order of the steps needed to complete the website!
First off could you compare for us the most used and easiest to use sites!
What they do and don’t do!
As for the tutorial(s)!
Take us through the setting up on a site!
The creating of all the parts for the website!
How to do the upkeep of the website!
It would be good to create one tutorial for each of the most used sites!
Witch should cover most of us!
Gary
Linda,
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from England. I love reading your “About Pages.”
Hi Linda,
I enjoy your “About Pages”. I use MSN to create my website. I would love to know how to make a “page” for each topic, and how to change the background image into something I want and not what they consider my theme should be. I’ve had a few glitches, but my family has helped to fix them.
Hi Linda
I love reading your letters that you send out.
Im learning to build websites and at present im developing pages for existing web sites. Im using namo and would like to learn “were to start” as with building a site from scratch. first steps. and im keen on learning php mysql and smarty. Where do i start with that. I think the biggest fear is making a mess of things.
Thank You for all that share
I have one on MSN Spaces and I am hoping that that if you do write tutorials to mention how to contend with over-hauls which make it impossible to follow and change profile pics etc. I would like somewhere it is possible to have my own hosting and not rely on others out there – to have free links to templates for the site as some of us aren’t that clever is designing our own (like moi) but to have it so we can do our own thing in our OWN space and not be reliant on others.
Keept up the emails as I find them great and very helpful in a lot of cases.
Liz
I recently purchased a domain name and had hoped to have a webpage up and going right now. I seem to have a hard time just getting started. I am not sure what to do next.
Like Gary, I don’t know where to begin. I have a site for my art, but no blog yet. Expose.com is a fill in the blank site that while good, has little flexiablity. I also try to maintain a non-profit site at http://www.orgsites.com/wv/renaissance/index.html
The site is provided for non-profits, but has little in the way of support, and backgrounds are from predetermined template. I would like to do better.
My page doesn’t load completely. There is no color and I’m not sure where to go to fix it. When I go to my dashboard>themes(or theme editor) page at the bottom is says “stylesheet is missing”. Where do I go to correct this or to make changes in the page i.e. to add or remove something?
Hi. I use Blogger for my blogs. You can customize them and use java script and html to add pictures, widgets,etc, to the side bar. I also change my background by using a script. Also, with blogger, you can go into the code and completely change it if you would like.
I also recently found FreeWebs, which is for your own web pages. They have templates you can use ans when you add pages you can specify what type you would like: forum, blog, photos, etc. I’m working on one right now on there for pictures for me family to see (you can make pages password protected – which I like when I am putting pics and info online about the kiddos).
danny: have you figured out what is wrong with it yet? Your css stylesheet is missing. If you still need help email the code (you will have to copy and paste into an editor) and I will look at it. (couponqueenofcorning @ hotmail.com) Also, what are you using for your site?