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Setting up a website

Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 6:50 am
by pablo
We may have to set up our own website as Fotopic have gone awol. So how do i go about it, whats involved and what sort of costs will we be looking at. All info will be gratefully received:thumbs:

Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 6:37 pm
by Stuart
What sort of website do you want?
If it's something that requires loads of space for media, then the applications can star to be a little more expensive but you should try something like http://www.wix.com if you only need a simple one. Most of theirs are free if you follow the terms and conditions.

You may be better having a look around first and then asking someone who knows what they're on about afterwards :) (i.e Not me ;) )

Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 7:59 pm
by maff
if its just host photos then googles picasaweb is great and simple

if you really want you're own website then there are loads of em out there
34sp.com we use at work about

Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 7:20 am
by pablo
Cheers for that:thumbs:. It will mainly be photos and video footage, plus we wan to have links to our sponsors sites. Suppose I better get started by finding a domain name as the one we wanted tnracing.co.uk is already taken:banghead:

Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 4:59 pm
by Bart
paul have a go at, live-to-race--race-to-live

Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 9:06 pm
by Stuart
That would be a bloody nightmare to type in Bart ;)

Maff

Try

Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 10:08 pm
by maff
Thatsbusinesshosting,idoubttheyneeddatabasesandallthatjazz.

Damn need new space bar!

Ill try again.... Thats business hosting with databases and masses of space, the beginner hosting works out at

Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 10:20 pm
by Stuart
Cool. Just wanted to underline that fact that 'our' running costs are more than

Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 10:23 pm
by maff
Sorry yeah, i wrote that badly.

"Bigpower is hosted with 1and1.co.uk, who also offer a cheap beginner level hosting package"

Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2011 8:30 am
by pablo
This is giving me a headache already:banghead:

Domain name short listed to 3, hopefully will be able to speak to Alan today so i can tick that box.

It will be used for pictures, videos and general event reports with links to sponsors and friends sites. Also a contact point where people can contact us but don't really want people leaving messages on the site. No idea what a Blog is. I really need to take a day off work to sort this out. Oh well, i'm sure i'll get it sorted soon enough.