Web hosting and domain advice

[Starling]

Hi all,

 

I know I'm just a newbie, but I thought I'd ask since there are people here that I'm sure can help. I know this is probably not the forum or site for this, but I thought since I was on here looking for some PC stuff I'd post it. Sorry if it's the wrong place.

 

I'm looking for a good web host, and I suppose somewhere to get a domain from, too. Any good advice or recommendations of companies to use? Any to stay clear from? I thought I'd ask before taking a plunge with a specific company. I have a small business and I'm hoping to get a website started for it in the near future. The site will serve mainly as a point of contact and reference about our services, but who knows, with time perhaps people can actually purchase items straight from the site. So, I need something that can grow with my company if need be.

 

Any suggestions are highly appreciated. Thanks loads and I look forward to hearing what you think.

[Plastic Nev]

Hi Starling, if you want nothing more than a customisable website, there are quite few a free ones available, the Brass Band I was involved with are presently using this :-

 

http://www.wix.com/lpviral/400?utm_campaign=vir_wixad_live

 

It looks fairly easy to set up a starting site and can be added to later as you need.

For an instance of what can be done have a look at the band website, give you an idea of what can be done here :-

 

http://www.darwenbrass.co.uk/

 

There many other examples on the Wix website as well.

 

Nev.

[Starling]

Hey Nev. Thanks for the response.

 

I may be wrong, but isn't wix just a website builder? I need that too so I'll definitely look into it, but do you know of any good hosting services? I'm finding this is most important to me to find a company that offers good services and customer service. Have you (or anyone else reading) had any experience with 1and1 (link included for reference). They have domain, hosting and web builder services and I'm looking to use them especially for the first two, but I wanted to do more research before I commit. Does anyone else have experience with them?

[KenB]

In addition to what Nev has already said ....

 

I have just set up a totally free website for a band of musicians using "wordpress"

http://wordpress.com/website/?source=googleUK&campaign=hsb&currency=pound&gclid=CL2-5Pfkgr4CFUoJwwodyE4A1Q

Wordpress is simple to use and you an change the skin ( look ) of the site even after you have set it up.

 

There are lots of free skins to get you started.

The "problem" with any free site is the URL that you have to use to access the site.

www.this-is-my-site.wordpress.com ( example ) is what it will be ......which is a bit long-winded.

You can buy a .com / .co.uk / .org to use but I wanted totally free so stuck with the extended URL.

 

You can try building your site - if you don't like it there is an option to delete.

[DSTM]

Also there are thousands of free Website Templates on the net which can help.

[Louise]

Ray

Thank you for letting me know

Blimey cannot even find the right thread! ..........No hope!!!!!!!

Bye

Louise