How to build/host a website?

So I'm looking into getting my own website up and running here pretty quickly. I am looking to find a place that can host the site and maybe even have some basic templates that I can use to build the site. It doesn't need to be anything fancy with a flash intro and such, but it would nice to have my own domain name and e-mail address to look more professional. Just the basic format with a contact page and a gallery (I do real estate stuff) would be sufficient. Any recommendations would be helpful. Thanks for your time.

-Rick

Hey

The company I use, www.hostmonster.com are great! $4.95 per month, 200Gb storage, 2000Gb Transfers, all you need. It also has all the scripts for photo galleries ready to install! So you can have a photo gallery going in like 5 min! lol. Have fun!

I know, I know, sounds like an infomercial, I just really love these guys!

Mike

Did you use their site builder that comes with the hosting package? The price is right but I couldn't find any examples of how the site would look with their builder. I'll keep poking around their site as it looks promising. Thanks for your reply!

The site builder is pretty good. It makes the pages and you just use the editor in the page to edit the content, its pretty good. The other good thing is that it has a thing called Fantastico, its a easy PHP script installer that comes with 3 different Photo Galleries. They are great and work a treat! And they install in about 2 min, you can try all of them out!

If you are going to buy the hosting with Hostmonster could you please click the link I provided, as it gains me some money! If you dont want to thats fine too! Hope it works out for you. And also, their support, telephone, and online chat is AWESOME!. 24/7!!
Also, if you need some help, you can PM me through the forums here!

The software I use for my photoblog (www.aussie-photo.com) is called Pixelpost. www.pixelpost.org. It works great too, and is all automated!

Also, if you use the demo login, you should be able to use the site builder and all the photo gallery scripts too! Just to see if you like them.

I use godaddy.com for hosting (3.99 a month), unbeliveable customer service, they cally ou!

Lightroom and photoshop both make albums, as does Picasa2 and Jalbum, and you can download those for free. theres also simpleviewer for a free flash viewer

+1 for godaddy.com. I use them also and they have been fantastic.

wordpress is good for a template type blog site, very customisable and offer quite alot of themes on the web,

ydube wrote in post #2555606
+1 for godaddy.com. I use them also and they have been fantastic.

Another one for godaddy.com here.

One tip though...invest on making your domain private. In a nutshell, your personal info is masked by godaddy's info. Go to their site to read more about it.

Good luck.

Yanis

I use Netfirms, but I find that my site gets slow sometimes. I will consider changing my hosting company when my contract expire in a few months.

As for building my web site, I kept it simple with html and CSS which I wrote myself. I want a fast loading site (hence the reason why I want to change my hosting company), so flash, while nice looking, doesn't quite cut it for me.

i built mine my self in breamweaver and use tinywebgallery for my gallerys


if you want email me and ill see if i can set you something up

GoDaddy.com

I use www.myqth.com

anyone have promo code discount for Godaddy.com?