This forum Looks LIke A Gold Mine Of Info!

[rosie]

 :)I just joined the Forum today and am very excited at what I am seeing! I am just in the beginning stages of developing my own website. I post about this in the new members section before I saw this section. I really don't know anything much about making my own website. I registered a domain name yesterday and was hoping to find a free web host company to start so I found tripod and got really confused with stuff about blogs etc...so I quit working on designing the sight and went looking for help...and here I am. I am a Ebayer seller (almost 3 years now.)I sell vintage everything. I want to start my own web page and see if it's worthwhile for me. In noticed another member suggested tripod so I will go back and try and figure it out. Can someone tell me is that all I need-a webhost and a domain name? Will greatly appreciate any help in my new venture and I am happy to find your forum. It looks like there are a lot of nice people in here!

[12noon]

What do you want to do with your website ?

Do you just want a few html pages or do you want all the flashy stuff ?

Also do you want a website builder or are you going to make something in frontpage and upload it ?

[rosie]

Hi 12noon. I want to sell vintage jewelry etc... on the website. Because I don't want to spend a bunch of money (or ANY really lol)I will be satisfied with the simple html. I know enough html to do background, texts, etc...I'd like the fancy stuff, but to get started just want to be able to put pictures of the items for sale, have pay pal etc..I don't understand I guess, how things work. OI understand about submitting my url to search engines, but that comes later lol!Where I am at exactly is , I have my name registered, I am trying to design the site on tripod...and don't know what I am doing much! ???Oh and I don't know what you mean by frontpage???

[12noon]

Frontpage is just part of microsoft office and lets you build a website on your home computer and then upload it to your webspace.
You can find other programs that let you build your site off-line on your home PC and then just upload the html to some webspace.
Anyway i don't know anything about tripod, but i'm sure someone else on here will help you out.
 

[rosie]

The frontpage thing sounds interesting. Kind of like my auction designer . I design my ads, then just copy the html onto ebay. Thanks again 12noon!

[12noon]

Just thought you might want to check this out :-
http://www.twocows.com/preview/250512.html

FORTUNE3 Shopping Cart and ECommerce solutions 4.0b
This e-commerce software provides a Web store builder that generates professional looking storefronts. It provides the entire shopping cart system with logistics, POS and secure online payment processing for credit cards and PayPal. It has a built-in HTML editor and FTP client. You can use it to create wholesale and retail storefronts with or without the use of HTML and SQL code. The program is compatible with Dreamweaver, Frontpage, Photoshop, Fireworks and most other HTML and image editors.
 

[rosie]

Wow that looks good! I have it ready to download which I will do now ,but wanted to say thanks again!!!!!I'll let you know! rosie

[rosie]

Frontpage is just part of microsoft office and lets you build a website on your home computer and then upload it to your webspace.
You can find other programs that let you build your site off-line on your home PC and then just upload the html to some webspace.
Anyway i don't know anything about tripod, but i'm sure someone else on here will help you out.
 

Hi 12noon, I have decided to host my own web site so am working on that. So far haven't ran into any trouble and don't really know what questions to ask yet. I suppose I will thinks of some though. I didn't even know you COULD host your own sight yesterday !Well I better get back to working on that. Have a great day. (We are really having beautiful weather in Portland right now. )

[susieq]

Hi Rosie,
best wishes and much success with your venture

[rosie]

Thanks Susie. I am sure I'll need that!

[Andy]

Hi Corrina,
I'm glad you didn't go for a free web host. Since you have a product line along the lines of Vintage Jewelry you can develop a web business like many other people.

http://www.marketingtips.com/t.cgi/46360 can teach you how or follow my own links to build traffic and stuff.

[rosie]

Hi Andy, I really do not understand why people pay for hosting when they can host themselves for free! Something about hosting my own site feells really good. Thanks and I will check out . I am starting over now with a better , shorter name that has a lot more punch and know what I am doing a lot more than I did so am very hopeful about getting more traffic etc..Am going to check out your links, Thanks!

[mathjoy]

sorry to interapt , but your sentence about hosting your own site cought my eyes,
I'm having a site not a frontpage one , i would like to know what are the hardware
properties I need to storge it at my computer+adsl connection which I'm having today.

If you want to see my site : www.infojet.net

Please reply

thanks

math

[SensoVision]

hi Math, and welcome aboard! maybe you can create new topic at Hosting board as possibly it get more reviews there.
BTW if I may ask what's the point of hosting business website yourself? as I see the reason to host homepage but for commercial resources it's critical to have good uptime and speed which could be achieved by choosing right hosting IMHO.

[rosie]

Hi Math and Denis. There are lots of reasons to host your own website. I have cable internet which is always up unless I turn of my computer. I just like having total control of my site and really like not paying someone else do do what I can do for myself. I use BRS Webweaver at this time for my webserver software. It's free and it's terrific! You have a lot of control in the configuration of your site. I started out with Savant which is also a great free webserver software. I am not as technically qualified to answer questions as many on this site, but since I did kind of learn from scratch and my site is up and running fine, I would be glad to answer any questions I can.