[Tuppence2]

Hello,

I am thinking of posting photographs of my home town on a web page of my own. Do I need to pay someone to host this and how do I go about setting up the page?

I am a beginner and would not be able to program anything technical!

Thanks,
Bye,
Penny

[BillC]

I'd check with your ISP and see if they have free space for their clients. I use Comcast and they allow 10mb of space for your own web page.

Here are some other free web hosting sites: http://www.thefreesite.com/Free_Web_Space/

You also said you did not want anything too technical. To help with your page, try a html editor called WebDwarf. It is free, has a built in FTP client, and is easy to use. Here is the link:
http://www.virtualmechanics.com/prod...arf/index.html

Good luck

[aineo]

There is more than one way to do this. If you are just wanting to share the photos with others, an idea might be to use a photo developing service that will post the pictures on a website for you (an example of this is York Film Developing, sorry, I don't have a web address).

Another way would be to use a free web hosting service. It has been a while since I have checked into this but there were several when I began looking. Just use google to search for "free web hosting".

A third way would be to get your own web address for which you would have to pay. A while back I found what I thought seemed like a good deal at www.powweb.com. I don't remember the specifics now, but I was impressed with the deal.

If you use either the second or third choices above you will need to design a web page. If you have access to MS Front Page or another editor it shouldn't be too hard to design a simple web page. If you don't have access to this, or don't want to get into it, you could probably find a someone to make a simple web page for relatively cheap.

[pyritechips]

Hello Penny!

Do you have any HTML skills? Do you just want to post something like a photo album, displaying pictures and a caption describing them?

Also definitely check with you ISP whether they supply you with free webspace.

[Tuppence2]

Hello everyone,

Thanks for the advice.

Yes, I just want to be able to link to a web page of my photogaphs.
I don't have any HTML skills at all.

I do have a friend who is designing a program to set up web pages,
and who would host it on his linux machine. He says I could be a "guinea pig" for his program. But that could be some time in the future.

Will look into the free web hosting.

Bye,
Penny

[pyritechips]

Penny:

I can show you a very simple HTML photo album. Do you have broadband? I have a sample HTML album I made of my Mom and Nephew's birthday party with 20 .jpgs totalling 1.76MB. I will gladly send it to you in a .zip file if you wish to see it to get an idea. There is text on the left describing a thumbnail on the right. If you click the text, you get the full size picture. Then just click the BACK button to go back to the main page.

It is only one of endless possibilities. One idea you can follow up on is to first browse many websites to get a more precise idea of how you want a page to "look". I have found that having a firm idea as to layout is the most critical of designing a page.

if you can click a mouse button and also chew gum at the same time,then you can build a web-page for your photos here with-out any html whatsoever..... 81X


P.S. ..IT`S ALSO FUN TO BUILD YOUR OWN SITE !

[EmXtrix]

HTML is fun, you can pick it up quick if you'd like. Otherwise go for Web1000.com, free hosting, no ads. Some free hosting sites (I'm not sure if Tripod.com is one) have wizards that would you through making a site.

Web1000.com kind of heads you toward gay and/or adult topic`s for your site?I would`nt trust the server,and maybe try:

81X

Freeservers

0catch

to name a few which don`t require html

[EmXtrix]

Hehe I wasn't aware of that. So long as I don't get emails from stalkers it's worth the ad-free space for a small site.

[RandyG]

Hiya Penny,

I'm all for you learning how to do HTML, cause you can have a lot of fun with it, but Marlene used freewebs at one point, and I registered a site there. It's easy-peasy using the page generators, etc to create a basic site, and upload to it (only 1 file at a time for the free stuff).

You might want to take a look at.


In another thread, BillC recommended a free WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) Html editor called WebDwarf so you could download that and learn with it without anything costing you a dime, except for your connection time, of course!

[Tuppence2]

Hello aineo, BillC, EmXtrix, 700mb_80min, Jim, Randy


WOW, that's lots of information. Thank you very much.

Yes, Jim, if you would like to send the file so I can look at it I would be grateful, thanks.

My connection is broadband - http://www.Blueyonder.co.uk. Will take a look there today to see about free web space.

WebDwarf sounds good, too, Randy. That was suggested by BillC further back in this thread.

I will certainly take a look at them all.

Looks as though I might be able to make myself a page!

Bye for now,
Penny

[RandyG]

whoops, that's what I get for scanning the page instead of reading it all!

anyway, blueyonder do have personal webspace for you, and it's already part of your package.

http://help.blueyonder.co.uk/html/web/

[Tuppence2]

Hello Randy,

Thanks very much for that information. I will go to Blueyonder and see what I have to do to get my web space!

Bye,
Penny

[Cosmic]

Tripod does have what you want. You can get it here.

http://www.tripod.lycos.com/?

Free and easy. They give you something like 50MB and you can build a web page with a template method that uses no programming if you wish. Plus there is a built in utility to allow you to upload photos and other zipped files. You can set it up to allow others to download files too. Lot of little goodies and utility type things to help you out.

Hard to beat completely free. You can use the pages as published to the web or keep them in a private mode depending on what suits your needs.

Here is an example page I built for my dog to test out the site. This one I registered to make it searchable.

http://the_buzz1.tripod.com/mydogsphotoalbum/

A BLOG might also suit your purposes too. You can also build one of those at Tripod.