I would like to start a website to go along with my weight loss surgery journey and I have no clue how to start one except on AOL and their webpages are pretty lame, I'd like a professional looking one but I have no idea how to do that. Any suggestions?

Two very good free web hosts are http://www.geocities.com and http://www.tripod.com

Both of them allow you to either use your own HTML or they have Templates to let you build upon.

Geocities is probably a little better of the two because it's a bit faster and easier to get around and they don't have as many pop-ups as Tripod does.

If you need help or pointers regarding HTML site building, I would be happy to help you.

thanks

Actually, I wouldn't recommended those hosts unless you have a code to kill their pop-up ads. Need one let me know I can get ya one.

You can also find a list of good HTML sites with tutorials and such on my site.

http://bewitched.beautiful-addiction.net/ba/em/index.php?x=you.php

LOL duh to me I totally forgot about your site Pandora I love it, I'd like one just like it but blue with dolphins LOL thanks

Originally posted by MandieR1980
LOL duh to me I totally forgot about your site Pandora I love it, I'd like one just like it but blue with dolphins LOL thanks

lol Well, thank you. :blush:

If you need any help with coding let me know.

Originally posted by pandora_spocks
Actually, I wouldn't recommended those hosts unless you have a code to kill their pop-up ads. Need one let me know I can get ya one.

You can also find a list of good HTML sites with tutorials and such on my site.

http://bewitched.beautiful-addiction.net/ba/em/index.php?x=you.php
Well, I don't know of any free sites that don't put some kind of ad on your page. I think Tripod has an option where you can choose to have a banner at the top of every page instead of the annoying pop-ups.

And if there are free web hosts that give you webspace without the ads, there's a catch of one kind or another...

Oh yeah, if anyone wants me to make them a pre-made layout and have an idea in mind with photos and such and are willing to pay, I will make you a layout. :D

Originally posted by Fran Fan

Well, I don't know of any free sites that don't put some kind of ad on your page. I think Tripod has an option where you can choose to have a banner at the top of every page instead of the annoying pop-ups.

And if there are free web hosts that give you webspace without the ads, there's a catch of one kind or another...

That's why I dislike free hosts and most of them don't let you use FTP - like 50megs.com, they used to let you use FTP to upload your files, but not anymore. And geocities - they were good until they got together with yahoo..they've just gone to hell since. There are codes aka scripts that you add to your HTML and it will kill the pop-up add that the free hosts jam into your HTML after you publish your page. I am anti-pop-up unless your layout is a pop-up. Anyway, like I said if anyone has a free host and would like a code to remove those stupid pop-up ads like on geocities let me know and I'll get you one.

Originally posted by Fran Fan



And if there are free web hosts that give you webspace without the ads, there's a catch of one kind or another...

I use the webspace from the ISP -- it's excellent, but it should be; we pay them over $50 a month.. There are no pop ups, ftp, even cgi. I have a lot of space too, I have about 50 hi res photos on my space, and have only used about half of it. So, check to see if your ISP gives out webspace..

Originally posted by Jersey Girl


I use the webspace from the ISP -- it's excellent, but it should be; we pay them over $50 a month.. There are no pop ups, ftp, even cgi. I have a lot of space too, I have about 50 hi res photos on my space, and have only used about half of it. So, check to see if your ISP gives out webspace..

That's not bad, but here's what I have from my current host at featureprice.com. I really like featureprice until they suspended my account and I'm assuming that was because this past January my account needed to be renewed and no I haven't so why are my subdomains still running? I don't know and frankly I don't care. :p They have most of all the features I could possibly ever want never had a problem with going over my limit of space although I do use quite a lot and no bandwidth charges whatsoever. Plus, they allow Mp3s and .Wmv's which were essential when they were hosting my Mary Tyler Moore (which is on a long hiatus right now). And YES! I do use more than half of the stuff listed especially PHP and MySQL.

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Actually, most of the free webhosts have cheap hosting and domain name options. That's how I got my site. I pay the $8.95 a month and get the domain name, the extra space, the CGI bin and PERL stuff (which I know little about right now), domain e-mail, no ads or pop-ups (thank heavens, they were annoying!), etc. ad nauseum. I also get 5 sub-domains, 5 pop-mail domain accounts and 5 domain e-mail forwarding accounts, 50 MBs webspace, 10 GB bandwidth, able to upload WVMs and MP3s (why wouldn't they?), blah blah blah yaddah, yoda and yogurt.

Yousa gets the points.

However, I admit the one Pandora mentions for $16.95 sounds like one hell of a deal! 5,000 MB (5 GB) webspace! Holy storage Batman, my harddrive itself only has a little over 5 GBs of stuff on it. I admit that's a damn good deal. I might have to look into it someday. Right now though, I'm familiar enough with the File Manager and all that so I wouldn't want to have to familiarize myself right now with another one.

One place I warn against is http://www.designmatrix.biz which is where a friend of mine has his site at. He pays a whopping $40 a month for what I consider a slow and clunky manager interface.
They don't even give you an option to just write HTML in a blank page and you have to go with templates not to mention they have no PREVIEW page to see how the page looks before you save it, blah blah blah --- I can complain about them all day.

Originally posted by Fran Fan
Actually, most of the free webhosts have cheap hosting and domain name options. That's how I got my site. I pay the $8.95 a month and get the domain name, the extra space, the CGI bin and PERL stuff (which I know little about right now), domain e-mail, no ads or pop-ups (thank heavens, they were annoying!), etc. ad nauseum. I also get 5 sub-domains, 5 pop-mail domain accounts and 5 domain e-mail forwarding accounts, 50 MBs webspace, 10 GB bandwidth, able to upload WVMs and MP3s (why wouldn't they?), blah blah blah yaddah, yoda and yogurt.

Yousa gets the points.

However, I admit the one Pandora mentions for $16.95 sounds like one hell of a deal! 5,000 MB (5 GB) webspace! Holy storage Batman, my harddrive itself only has a little over 5 GBs of stuff on it. I admit that's a damn good deal. I might have to look into it someday. Right now though, I'm familiar enough with the File Manager and all that so I wouldn't want to have to familiarize myself right now with another one.

One place I warn against is http://www.designmatrix.biz which is where a friend of mine has his site at. He pays a whopping $40 a month for what I consider a slow and clunky manager interface.
They don't even give you an option to just write HTML in a blank page and you have to go with templates not to mention they have no PREVIEW page to see how the page looks before you save it, blah blah blah --- I can complain about them all day.

I wouldn't though like I said they suspended me and I've tried to contact them numerous times, but they won't reply back. So I'm gonna move on to a new host called Netrillium (http://www.netrillium.net) that my friend Bonnie suggested. I'm not sure if they host all sorts of sites other than personal ones, but you'll have to find that out yourself.

rainbow!

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hey, holly, ya wanna send me one of those ad killer html code deals?

thanks a ton!

Rockapella1162@hotmail.com

Originally posted by Rockapella722
hey, holly, ya wanna send me one of those ad killer html code deals?

thanks a ton!

Rockapella1162@hotmail.com

For which host?

Oh, sorry... Geocities.

download this file and open it up in notepad.

Originally posted by Fran Fan

Well, I don't know of any free sites that don't put some kind of ad on your page. I think Tripod has an option where you can choose to have a banner at the top of every page instead of the annoying pop-ups.

And if there are free web hosts that give you webspace without the ads, there's a catch of one kind or another...

www.freewebs.com doesn't have pop-ups or banner ads.

Originally posted by TradingMooses


www.freewebs.com doesn't have pop-ups or banner ads.

Never heard of them, but I give them at least 2 years then by that time they'll be just like geocities and 50megs.

Originally posted by pandora_spocks


Never heard of them, but I give them at least 2 years then by that time they'll be just like geocities and 50megs. Yah netzany used to be like freewebs, but that up and died on people. Freewebs isn't too bad....yet.

Originally posted by TradingMooses
Yah netzany used to be like freewebs, but that up and died on people. Freewebs isn't too bad....yet.

lol see told ya. i dont think any free host is really any good although there are a lot of horrible hosts that you pay for too, but usually at least you get more features by paying.

Originally posted by pandora_spocks


lol see told ya. i dont think any free host is really any good although there are a lot of horrible hosts that you pay for too, but usually at least you get more features by paying. exactly. and hey if you dont have any money, find someone to host you...like I did. :D

oh and I wouldnt advise using geocities cuz I know it can mess up peoples computers when they try to go to your website....like mine...but I've heard of other people having problems going to geocities websites...it like freezes my aol..

Originally posted by TradingMooses


www.freewebs.com doesn't have pop-ups or banner ads.

ew Freewebs lol. I have my TC site there and they were fine until January 2003 for me. It says it offers up to 100mbs free but it won't let me upload more than 50 files. When they first started doing the 50 file thing, I had like 250 files on there already but thankfully it didn't delete them. *shrug* Right now I use Geocities on my other site even though I'm not happy with any of the free hosts. One day I hope to get a domain name.

Originally posted by TradingMooses

oh and I wouldnt advise using geocities cuz I know it can mess up peoples computers when they try to go to your website....like mine...but I've heard of other people having problems going to geocities websites...it like freezes my aol..

It used to do that to me when I had Compuserve. Now that I have AOL, it stopped. And since AOL started using an automatic pop up blocker, it works perfectly on my AOL 8.0.

Originally posted by Sean Snow


ew Freewebs lol. I have my TC site there and they were fine until January 2003 for me. It says it offers up to 100mbs free but it won't let me upload more than 50 files. When they first started doing the 50 file thing, I had like 250 files on there already but thankfully it didn't delete them. *shrug* Right now I use Geocities on my other site even though I'm not happy with any of the free hosts. One day I hope to get a domain name. ah i forgot about the 50 files thing...yah that happened to me too...just make multiple accounts. :D cheat the system.

Originally posted by Sean Snow


It used to do that to me when I had Compuserve. Now that I have AOL, it stopped. And since AOL started using an automatic pop up blocker, it works perfectly on my AOL 8.0. and then theres us poor souls with 6.0....:(

I dream of my own domain name, but for now, Geocities is good enough.

(Thanks Holly!)

Originally posted by Rockapella722
I dream of my own domain name, but for now, Geocities is good enough.

(Thanks Holly!)

You're welcome. :)

Originally posted by TradingMooses
Yah netzany used to be like freewebs, but that up and died on people. Freewebs isn't too bad....yet. Netzany is EVIL!!!!! They deleted my whole site without notice!! I had to start from scratch! :mad: :mad: :mad:

Holly... How about one of those pop-up killers for me, as well? :D
Host: CJB
Thanks!!!

Originally posted by Sean Snow


It used to do that to me when I had Compuserve. Now that I have AOL, it stopped. And since AOL started using an automatic pop up blocker, it works perfectly on my AOL 8.0. Thank goodness 50's more than enough for me. :D You can always have multiple accounts, LOL.

Originally posted by Jo's the bomb
Netzany is EVIL!!!!! They deleted my whole site without notice!! I had to start from scratch! :mad: :mad: :mad:

Holly... How about one of those pop-up killers for me, as well? :D
Host: CJB
Thanks!!!

You mean cjb.net? Sorry, don't have any for that. I suggest you download a 'Pop Up Stopper' (http://www.popupstopper.com/) so it stops the pop-ups on your computer.

Originally posted by pandora_spocks


You mean cjb.net? Sorry, don't have any for that. I suggest you download a 'Pop Up Stopper' (http://www.popupstopper.com/) so it stops the pop-ups on your computer. Oh, I don't mind the pop-ups; it's the visitors that do. :lol:
Thanks anyways. :D

Originally posted by Sean Snow


ew Freewebs lol. I have my TC site there and they were fine until January 2003 for me. It says it offers up to 100mbs free but it won't let me upload more than 50 files. When they first started doing the 50 file thing, I had like 250 files on there already but thankfully it didn't delete them. *shrug* Right now I use Geocities on my other site even though I'm not happy with any of the free hosts. One day I hope to get a domain name.
The thing is, most free webhosts have the option to pay for a domain name and no ads or pop-ups. Tripod offers a very reasonable plan for $8.95 a month were you get a domain name (one time set up fee of $15.00), 5 subdomains, 5 domain e-mail forwarding, 5 pop-mail domain e-mail, no ads or pop-ups (of course), 50 MB webspace, Perl and CGI support, 10 GB monthly bandwidth, etc. ad nauseum.

I'm not trying to sound like a spokesman for Tripod. Heh.

What you should do is get a free webhost like Geocities, Tripod or some other decent one, build your site and when you feel ready to, upgrade it.

As for Freewebs, I've seen it and I agree they'll only last so long before resorting to pop-ups. If not, there's a catch like Sean mentioned. Besides, these people would be losing money. They need revenue from somewhere and exactly where are they getting it. I just don't fall for the free site thing without banners or ads unless you're actually paying for it.

So far, I've been happy with both Geocities and Tripod. Tripod has a better paid webhost deal, though, then Geocities.

BTW, be carefull with Pop-Up killers on free sites. If they find out, they'll shut you down. I remember I accidentally removed the Javascript code for the pop-ups on one page on a Geocities account and they cancelled my account - e-mail and all!

Some of these sites have Bots which can detect these too.