Anyone know of any that will allow me to host pitctures and text on a number of pages?
Free websites
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Yahoo geocities?
Oh no this is going to a site about complaing about stuff in general lol.
Yes but would like a free one first to "test the water" if you would.
Do you want to create a website or a message board? Mind you, you could do both.
silvermain said:
If your PC is on all teh time you could use it to run your site till you know its a go-er.
I would recommend talking to people who know what they are talking about from a firewall/security aspect but its not difficult to do(I'm happy to give you my expertise on this). I have a small linux server you can have for a small amount of beer tokens(just to cover the Hard disk thats in it, the rest is pretty much throw away spec nowadays but it will happily cope with 20-30 concurrent users as long as you aren't utilising all your ISP bandwidth with P2P or anything else like that. )
NB some ISPs ban the use of home webservers so you may wish to test it first before going through the hassle of setting it all up, I can help/advise you if you want.
Ian
entwisi said:
LOL i was with you all the way to firewall/security lol
Really all i want is a free one to write on about different topics and a few pictures. Not after much really. Cant you get them with .tv at the end of it?
Yeah that will do cheers.
silvermain said:
This is just the problem, People see Computers and the Internet as an 'easy' thing (yeh I can use a computer.) but in reality they know very little about them and don't want to learn.
When they get bitten on the bum they start wingeing.
If you really want to learn about building and running a website then you need to do some research yourself on both techniacl aspects of building one to legal requirements (DDA, copyright, libel etc)
Aw bless, everybody has to start somewhere.
I remember when I first started out wanting to make little graphics somebody blinded me with science and after the first couple of sentences. 
It was enough to put me off for life - vector layers and raster layers and inverted selections!!! I can sometimes forget what it was like back then when I didn't know the proper names for anything. I do still tend to talk about thingummies and wassanames and I sometimes hope I'm not sounding patronising when people ask for help to do things because I want to be sure they understand so I try to explain as clearly and in as much detail as possible. (with pics) Somtimes they may know what they want but can't explain it properly which can be a bit challenging at times but we get there in the end.
Not long ago somebody asked for a button, but what he asked for wasn't too clear so I had a stab at what I thought he meant but asked for more info if I'd got it wrong. He insisted I hadn't done what he'd asked for but didn't explain any more so I had another go. Then he got annoyed because THAT wasn't what he wanted. It turned out that what he had wanted was what I'd done in the first place but he hadn't saved it properly so had seen the wrong thing. We got there in the end.
It was enough to put me off for life - vector layers and raster layers and inverted selections!!! I can sometimes forget what it was like back then when I didn't know the proper names for anything. I do still tend to talk about thingummies and wassanames and I sometimes hope I'm not sounding patronising when people ask for help to do things because I want to be sure they understand so I try to explain as clearly and in as much detail as possible. (with pics) Somtimes they may know what they want but can't explain it properly which can be a bit challenging at times but we get there in the end.Not long ago somebody asked for a button, but what he asked for wasn't too clear so I had a stab at what I thought he meant but asked for more info if I'd got it wrong. He insisted I hadn't done what he'd asked for but didn't explain any more so I had another go. Then he got annoyed because THAT wasn't what he wanted. It turned out that what he had wanted was what I'd done in the first place but he hadn't saved it properly so had seen the wrong thing. We got there in the end.
The problem with making websites.... Fred Bloggs or whoever.. gets a PC for crimbo and fires up some free microsoft software.. frontpage express maybe... Makes a fantastic looking web page in half an hr and can't believe how easy it is...within a week of getting his new computer he is packing his job in and thinking of a name for his new web design company cus he is so brilliant at it..
It happenn.. believe me it does... but what is worse.. theres always someone gullible enough to buy one off him
It happenn.. believe me it does... but what is worse.. theres always someone gullible enough to buy one off him