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To: Ed Gillis <edgillis1@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Website questions???
Ed Gillis <edgillis1@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Ed here (Shella's boyfriend), I'm trying to
> figure out how to create an affordable website.
> My initial inquiries are producing estimates of
> about $2500 per year for domain registration and
> web hosting services.
That's way too much unless it includes assistance from
professional web designers, which you probably don't want
anyway because they almost invariably screw things up.
> Is there an easy and
> cheaper way to create an info only based website
> for my coaching and dance teaching business??
My first thought is to take a look at this:
http://geocities.yahoo.com/
The "Pro" account is $8.95 a month, and pretty much has what
you want. This comes with some kind of page generation
tools ("wizards?") that I'm not familiar with, but you might
want to play with 'em to see if they get you started faster.
Don't assume that you can't just learn to code simple HTML
yourself though (and in general, the simpler, the better the
site works):
http://www.arsdigita.com/books/panda/html
By the way, how do you guys get online? Take a look at the
website of your dialup/DSL provider, you may already be
paying for some web hosting services. (Which might or might
not be useful to you, depending on a few different
things...)
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