Re: COMP: help - region 7 website

Linda,

iPower is a good service. I found their technical help very good. I am not familiar with what beginner's tools they have for setting up a website, but you could probably find out by perusing their site and calling tech support and asking just that question. A lot of the good ISPs have tools that you use online instead of on your local machine.

I haven't used Frontpage for a long time and had some problems with it, but it has been updated. I think Kitty uses it and might be able to tell you more about the plusses and minuses. It is "Gatesware"...

A couple of things relevant to you aversion to "Gatesware" versus Netscape. There are things that are different between browsers and something that looks fine in Netscape may look different in Internet Explorer, and while you shy away from IE most of the world does not, and you need to design to your audience. This may not be an issue for the website you design, but needs to be considered. I have all four browsers on my machine (Firefox, IE, Netscape and Safari) I generally use Safari, but often check things with the others. They don't hurt your machine by just sitting there. (Using them all the time may be a different matter without virus protection). Even if you don't have IE on your machine you should be sure to get someone who does to check out your site.

That is also one of the benefits of using an ISPs online design tools, they take into account all the differences (generally).

Instead of Netscape you might want to try Firefox.


The act of "Publishing" a website consists of a few basic steps.

1. Getting a domain name and getting a host. Generally most ISPs can handle that for you. If you want do do your own, someone like Dotster is a great service. Do not just jump on the cheapest you can find, in the long run the garage shops can be problematic. If you do it yourself you will need to pick your ISP first and get the information from them that you will need to register your domain.

You will want to find a name before hand. You can test for availability by going to:

http://www.dotster.com/

or

http://www.networksolutions.com/

2. Create your website

3. Upload it to the file address given to you by your ISP (Thisa step is a non-issue if you use the ISPs online fools because they do it "in place" for you.

BTW, once your ISP begins hosting your domain name it may take up to 24 hours (or more) for the Domain Name Servers to get the new information.


John


On Nov 1, 2005, at 4:54 AM, Linda Mann wrote:

Thanks all, for on and offlist comments.

Annette, thanks for reminding me of the Ky website - will try to contact
the webmaster and see if he/she might be willing to do the regional
website as well..

Kitty, this is the info I was asking for. One of those questions where
I'm so ignorant, I'm not really sure what the questions are until I
start getting feedback.

I had agreed to do the webpages myself, <if> a clone of our local
website was acceptable. They said yes. I don't have or currently have
time to learn skills to do anything more fancy. Just Frontpage (?I
think that's the name..) software output.

But I don't know <anything> about publishing websites, so the big holdup
in starting has been finding a server and doing whatever mysterious
things have to be done. And as someone prone to high anxiety, I want a
host that provides reliable "personal" help getting it published.

I could use my local ISP - local phone call for help, answered by "if
you want to talk to a technician, press 1; if you want to leave a
message, press 2" <g>

Does iPowerWeb provide good handholding for beginners? <g>

I probably have to wait till I've rebuilt my computer to do this, if
whatever ISP I wind up using uses a lot of javascript and cookies. Plus
I need a host that supports Netscape - I refuse to use Gatesware.

<Do you or someone have the skills to design the web pages? For Region
14, I evaluated several providers some years back,
used one free site (and
tolerated a bit of advertising), and then moved to a
low cost site by the
name of iPowerWeb.com. They are $7.95 per month, NO
set up fee, it
INCLUDES a free domain name and set up, and gives me
3,000MB for hosting
pages and images. That is $95.40 per year. I've
had excellent service
for the years Region 14 has used them. Some of my
college students
searched just last month for a site, and couldn't
find any better priced for
the amount of storage offered, at a one year rate.
Kitty Loberg
Region14 Webmaster>

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