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Is it hard to set up a web site?

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Started by Kill_Hill (Brendan) in Chit-Chat

Been meaning to do this for years, set up a web site with old mag interviews from PL and T? etc. Is it hard to do, bearing in mind that i’m not shit with computers but i’m not great either. I was was hoping just to scan the mags and put them on a site. Any info/pointers are welcome.

Posted on Tue, 29 July 2008 at 12:46

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msd wrote:

It can be a bit fiddly but not too difficult. You can get free hosting and a free website address, I used this company: http://50webs.com/free_plan.html

You’ll need a website designer program as well, try a free trial version: http://www.wysiwygwebbuilder.com/download.html

Posted on Tue, 29 July 2008 at 12:55

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Kill_Hill (Brendan) wrote:

is there a limit on the amount i can up load? Will it be difficult to upload a4 pages, if it gonna take ions for some one to look at a page?

Posted on Tue, 29 July 2008 at 13:13

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msd wrote:

60 MB which should be enough, when you design the site you can have the images as thumbnails people can click on to get a big image

Posted on Tue, 29 July 2008 at 13:23

#4

Kill_Hill (Brendan) wrote:

cool man, thanks. might give it a lash

Posted on Tue, 29 July 2008 at 13:26

#5

Kill_Hill (Brendan) wrote:

did you have to pay $15 for the domain name

Posted on Tue, 29 July 2008 at 13:37

#6

msd wrote:

I did pay for mine (I think it’s about €15 a year as it’s a good domain name), I thought you could get free names from there as well though…if not I think you can get one from here:

http://www.we.bs/

Then register it at the 50webs site as they offer bigger storage and no adverts

Posted on Tue, 29 July 2008 at 13:48

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msd wrote:

Forget that last bit as we.bs offer the same anyway

Posted on Tue, 29 July 2008 at 13:53

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msd wrote:

I don’t think you even need a web design program as it says it has an “Integrated WYSIWYG / HTML editor”

Posted on Tue, 29 July 2008 at 13:55

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Kill_Hill (Brendan) wrote:

nah its the same place by the look of it. Can you set up the website to see how it looks before it goes live any you have to pay?

Posted on Tue, 29 July 2008 at 13:59

#10

Kill_Hill (Brendan) wrote:

that reply was for post number 6. As for post number 8, i haven’t a clue what you are on about!! Sadly.

Posted on Tue, 29 July 2008 at 14:01

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msd wrote:

It’s all free mate…post 8 was about a “What You See Is What You Get” HTML editor that you can design the web pages with

Posted on Tue, 29 July 2008 at 14:07

#12

Gav wrote:

Build the site on your pc and check it works - then upload it to the webspace and give it a quick once over.

Posted on Tue, 29 July 2008 at 14:50

#13

Kill_Hill (Brendan) wrote:

well i have registered the domain name, its http://gloomanddoom.we.bs.

I’ll try and sort it out over the next few weeks. Not bothered about the design, just want to get those interviews back out there. I live to give don’t you know.

Posted on Tue, 29 July 2008 at 15:24

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hoochalobster (Sarah) Super Moderator wrote:

You can get scanner software that ‘reads’ text, so you could copy it on to the website instead of having big images. If you have an HP scanner one called Readiris might be on your installation disc (it doesn’t install automatically, it’s in the extras bit).

Posted on Tue, 29 July 2008 at 16:02

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Kill_Hill (Brendan) wrote:

I was hoping to put up the original interview with pics etc

Posted on Tue, 29 July 2008 at 16:12

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hoochalobster (Sarah) Super Moderator wrote:

Fair enough, just sounds chunky - they’re going to have to remain high quality images for people to be able to read them.

Posted on Tue, 29 July 2008 at 18:36

#17

msd wrote:

Kill_Hill wrote:

I was hoping to put up the original interview with pics etc

Originals would be good…if you need more space you can have 3 free sites hosted there apparently

Posted on Tue, 29 July 2008 at 19:32 in reply to an earlier post

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Kill_Hill (Brendan) wrote:

Orignals would be nice alright, i’ll see how it goes. As hooch said it may prove difficult.

Posted on Tue, 29 July 2008 at 20:21

#19

Kill_Hill (Brendan) wrote:

what was your carcass web address again Sam? This will take me forever.

Posted on Tue, 29 July 2008 at 21:52

#20

hoochalobster (Sarah) Super Moderator wrote:

You could always make the original scans available to download, I just don’t like big pictures in a browser :)

Posted on Tue, 29 July 2008 at 21:56

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g (Does everything start with destruction?) wrote:

well im running tylaandthedogsdamour.com at the moment theres nothing really there, im working on it.

i dont know if that 50megs site you use offers ftp and php but if it does maybe just use some sort of content managment system script or something.

Posted on Tue, 29 July 2008 at 22:28

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g (Does everything start with destruction?) wrote:

ps i use dreamweaver and its an arsehole, in theory it should be simple to use but its not. and photoshop for images, part of the adobe creative suite 3, expensive software, if you dont know the right ways of obtaining it ;)

Posted on Tue, 29 July 2008 at 22:31

#23

Kill_Hill (Brendan) wrote:

aah Grant, I have no idea what you just said. Sounds informative though.

Posted on Wed, 30 July 2008 at 09:56

#24

msd wrote:

Kill_Hill wrote:

what was your carcass web address again Sam? This will take me forever.

http://www.necroticism.com

Made it with WYSIWG, an easy program to use. Use the trial version I gave you a link to

Posted on Wed, 30 July 2008 at 10:15 in reply to an earlier post

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Kill_Hill (Brendan) wrote:

Easy for you Sam, you have your shit down, I am borderline retarded when it comes to this stuff. Damn you brain!!

Posted on Wed, 30 July 2008 at 10:29

#26

Gav wrote:

Dreamweaver is quite straight forward to use as a publishing app.

Or you could just hard code the Html if you were that way inclined ;)

Posted on Wed, 30 July 2008 at 11:24

#27

msd wrote:

I tried that once…it looked terrible and took fucking ages

Posted on Wed, 30 July 2008 at 12:16

#28

Auto_Surgery (Andy) wrote:

Check out http://www.gradwell.com/webhosting/ they are a service provider that will allow you to purchase domain names and host them on their servers, you can also setup pop3 (type of service for email) email addresses with you domain names - it’s all real simple and if you get that far drop me a line and I can guide you through things. Costs about £10 a month, so may not be the avenue you wanna explore cos there a free unix platforms available - can’t remember any right now but I’ll post when I do, one I used once was based in Texas…

I couldn’t help with the construction of the web site I’m afraid - you’d need a graphic/web designer for that but there are plenty of tools to choose from as people have already pointed out

Posted on Wed, 30 July 2008 at 17:15

#29

Kill_Hill (Brendan) wrote:

Thanks for the tips so far people!

Ok, now i just scanned a few pages, 5 to be exact, and its JPEG and the 5 pages come to 8MB. Now I only have 60MB on the site so am i pissing against the wind here? What is the best way that i can do this? I want to get good quality scans but at the same time i don’t want some one to be waiting half the day to download them.

Please not that I am a computer retard so if you are thinking ” i won’t mention that because surly he know that already” then mention it because I haven’t a clue

Posted on Thu, 31 July 2008 at 18:56

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g (Does everything start with destruction?) wrote:

upload the image to photobucket.com and link to it?

or resize it

Posted on Thu, 31 July 2008 at 21:29

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