Starting a webpage/website

bawn79 Nov 17, 2006 09:03:16

I know a few of ye have your own webpages. Ive been researching my family tree on the side and I wanted to put it up on the interweb. I also wanted to link my profile here to the page and maybe have a small bit of blurb attached.
So im guessing we are talking about two pages, one for my family tree the other for a megalithic link. Anyone got any recommendations on user friendly sites.
Id prefer if I could call the site www.bawn.ie or something like that.

Cheers

CianMcLiam Nov 17, 2006 09:09:27

Replying to bawn79

Theres a few good weblog type sites that you can customise a lot, dont have any names though but I'm sure someone will.

If you want a .ie you have to have documentation that you have a claim to that name, a business or legal entity. Its a real pain, with novara.ie they let you pay for a .ie (89 euros) and afterwards tell you to send all these documents. A .com is much cheaper and easier.

Kammer Nov 17, 2006 09:31:47

Replying to bawn79

If you want your own domain (e.g. www.bawn.ie) then you'll have to buy it in the first place and pay a hosting company for the privilege of some web space.

Under this model you'd probably create a web site from scratch, using a protocol called FTP to get your web pages from your PC to the web space. The web pages could be crafted in a text editor (a bit technically involved) or created using a software package such as Microsoft FrontPage or Macromedia Dreamweaver.

Having said that, one of the host companies I've used quite a bit has some sort of built in tool so that you can create your web pages on-line. I've never used it, but I guess it might be what you're looking for. This is them:

https://www.one.com/

This company is also OK:

https://www.1and1.co.uk/

There are also some web sites that are specifically for genealogists to post their family trees on, but you probably know about that sort of thing already.

K x

Wiggy Nov 17, 2006 11:09:49

Replying to bawn79

Have you looked at Genes Reunited and Ancestry.com?

Chris Nov 17, 2006 13:56:20

Replying to bawn79

It's really easy: Middle of August, I had no sites & no clue:

I now have 1 megalithic site and 1 (crap) blog as you can see on my profile.

For webspace, I use http://www.awardspace.com/ who have a quite good free plan as well as paid. They will host one top level domain (bawn.ie) for free, but you will need to buy it first. I bought mine last night from http://www.123-reg.co.uk/ £6 for 2years for a .co.uk.

To get your website up & running, get some quite stunning free templates from here: http://www.openwebdesign.org/ and edit them with a free WYSIWYG editor such as http://www.nvu.com/index.php

For FTP (getting your files from your pc to the web) I can't recommend http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla/ enough.

It really is quite simple-If you want more, mail me & I'll run you through what I did step by step, 'tho to be quite honest, I learnt all I know (such as it is) from googling any questions that came up.

Good luck, and post your site on here when you're done!