Free Website hosting

[Tyler]

This is gonna make me look like an amateur, but whatever. Does anyone know good free website hosting system. I've checked out

https://www.freewebs.com

https://www.geocities.com

https://www.bravenet.com

I don't know which one is best. I can't afford an actual site so I'll have to make do.

[Woofnah]

Dude? What did you do with my car?

I use geocities:

https://www.geocities.com/woofnahs

[scot]

No chance

You're gonna be hard up to find a host that will support a lot of features and a pile of visitors, but to get started, you can use http://www.doteasy.net
It's free with no banners, popups, or other crap. If you want to pay for some hosting with great benefits and terrific support go to SheerGenius. They host my site. It's president@sheergenius.com .

A domain name like 'jugglegood.com' can cost you money, so wouldn't it be great if there was a free one you could get? Well, there is... http://www.dot.tk/ You don't get the posh ".com" but you get it free and beggars can't be choosers.

Saving money where you can is very professional.

Also consider, you're gonna still have to design the site or pay someone to do it for you. So, here's my cheapo way to do it:

Pay a photographer ( a good one [look at their work] ) to take photos of you. Figure out how to make a site with text and featuring these photos. Warning! do not use other images. Just photographer's pics. Your text should be scant -- like two short paragraphs per page. Two sentences per paragraph, 4 pages.

It will take a lot of work just to do this so simply. When you go to the photographer, have pictures that convey the style you want. Figure out how you want to describe your show, then find magazine ads and covers that shout your description like (young, exciting, dangerous, etc.)

Try to think ahead of the photographer, and buy him lunch. (total should be less than $300). Treat him really nicely, and never say you don't know what you want. If something doesn't turn out the way you like, don't complain. Figure out how to solve the problem, or take it as a learning experience.

Be clean, if you have a girl that will help you with makeup, get that done (so you don't shine), cut and file your nails.

After the shoot, you can post your pictures here, and Eric and I will tell you how to fix them. Remember, the photos are the most important part of your site. After, that, keeping it simple and straightforward will make you look more pro than most variety performers.

Here are some examples of what your site will look like:

http://www.calvinklein.com/BrandsProducts_CK.html

http://www.madchadtaylor.com/welcome.html

http://www.bubbleart.com/The%20Artistry%20Of%20Fan%20Yang.htm

Scot

[scot]

No chance

Jim,
I can't delete my own posts?
Scot

[Doctor Eric]

That's all good advice (I knew there was a reason we keep Scot around, now I just have to find my own justification), however, Scot, did you notice that Tyler is 15 years old? He should take your advice, but honestly, it doesn't matter at this point, the little bastard is goin to wind up knowing more at 18 than we do now. Screw him.

[Frisbee]

website

I would suggest staying away from the free hosts that have pop up banners on them, it is the most annoying thing to go to a site and have a stupid pop up thrown at you every few secconds.
find a low cost host for your first one.

www.onedollarhosting.com I think is a good place to begin.

they have an initial set up fee of... $49.00
but after that it is 1 dollar per month to host your site.
renewable every year at that low low price of just $12.00
but wait there's more....




no sorry there is no more, that's it really.

-Frisbee

[scot]

uh, why did you suggest a paying host after I gave him a free one?

[Frisbee]

sorry

Scot,

I did not see your full post, just a skim over and did not see that the site you suggested offered free with no banner or pop up, I was refering to the geocities and stuff...Im such an idiot....stupid, stupid, stupid...God, why did I do that...

My bad everyone, just pay attention to scots post from here on out.

-Frisbee

[Woofnah]

... and now: the Dog and Pony show

Grouph!!! Just website rambling here. As I have no one in real life to share this with, well ... you see where this is going ...

I've been on the phone with a couple of agents. The result? I'm doing serious design changes to my website -- making it less an individual's website and more a professional promotional website.

I had 1 agent tell me "Since it usually takes 3-4 months to get your web designer to change things as drastically as they need to be done, I don't expect to hear from you again for a while." I guess his ears were broken when I told him that among the degrees I hold is 1 in programming. The agent who took a look at my site that evening thought it was nicely done and well on it's way! Just need some headshots (hopefully next week) for the Home Page.

... and the saga continues ...

[scot]

You need mostly a degree in graphic design plus experience plus, you need experience in website programming. There's a lot of work to be done on your site for real.

I think it took 4-5 months for my first website and I did it myself.

Do some work, then post here for our harsh criti.

Scot

[Doctor Eric]

criti?

[Woofnah]

Let's try to increase the literacy rate

"There's a lot of work to be done on your site for real."

Okay, apparently, you didn't read what I wrote.

I MADE THE CHANGES HE TOLD ME TO ALREADY. ALL I NEED NOW ARE HEAD SHOTS WHICH I WILL HOPEFULLY GET NEXT WEEK TO POST ON THE HOME PAGE.

There. I hope that was loud enough.

And for god's sake ... don't tell me what degrees I need and what experience I need when you don't know what I've got.

Sheeesh!!!

[Doctor Eric]

Hey, don't bite the hand that critiques you. Scot was just trying to be helpful, and I'll guarantee he's talking from a position that can be very helpful. It doesn't matter how many degrees you have if your website looks like it was designed by a blind monkey with an iBook. And it does.
Sheesh with the people not being able to take criticism.

[Butterfly Man]

I'm not sure if she has an iBook but...

Hey EC! ... FYI, she IS blind!


... what an asshole!


P.S. Pick on somebody your own size.


... moi?

[Doctor Eric]

I give up.

Here's my badge and my uniform, I !@#?in' quit.

FYI Scot IS illiterate, and if I was picking on somebody, they'd !@#?ing KNOW it.

P.S. Robert, the last time I "picked" on you, you threw a fit. Does that mean I win? Here's my drunken philosophical for the evening kids, humans are !@#?ed, buy a rifle and shoot any one of them that comes within 200 yards. You'll be much happier.