I'm about to set up a website for a warmblood horse farm and I have some questions since this is my first foray into web design. I'm planning on using Front Page 2000 as my editor unless someone tells me of an easier/better editor.

Is there any "best" way to register the domain name? Annual cost?
How much should I expect to pay the host site?
Any hints as to how to get the various search engines to pick up the site quickly?

Many thanks,

CG

 

CG,

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I'm about to set up a website for a warmblood horse farm and I have some questions since this is my first foray into web design. I'm planning on using Front Page 2000 as my editor unless someone tells me of an easier/better editor.

 

I like HomeSite by Allaire as an editor. I HATE FrontPage!

Not really sure about your other questions. You can get your domain name it seems through almost anybody now, so shop around. Again, I would shop around for someone to host the site for you. Depends what you are doing also. Will you be taking transactions, do you need database access, any script writing, etc.

About the search engines, I don't know really a quick way other then going to each one and adding your link. I'm sure there is a web site to help you with this though. Good luck.

ERIK

 

Many thanks for the help and the ideas.

I did find a local site to host it for $15 monthly. That's good but not as good as free.

 

http://www.bigstep.com/

 

http://www.directnic.com - register domains for 15 bucks a year

http://www.biz-webhosting.com - about 7 bucks for a small site / month. hrmm doesn't resolve, but its something like that. if you want, just email this guy: bmoore@electrinet.com and tell him randy@buymeaferrari.com sent you and ask him if you can get the same package as I did. its about 7 bucks and allows 10 megs I think, something like that. small, efficient and stable. no problems and you are working with bill and he resolves any issues you have very promptly.

 

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I'm about to set up a website for a warmblood horse farm and I have some questions since this is my first foray into

 

for web design i like to use dreamweaver and flash. although this may be harder to use than frontpage, you get a more professional looking website and it's not really that hard both flash and dreamweaver do most of the work for you.

 

I like dotster for domain name registration. They charge $15 a year and offer DNS for an extra $5 or $10. Also, I agree with Swurvydel, Frontpages works, but the Macromedia products are nicer. Good luck!

-boka

 

speaking of free - directnic.com has free email forwarding for their freehosting service. you get to choose between popup window ad for their service or a top and bottom banner. hey, its free! they also have free forwarding - which basically sets up your site in an iframe. so say I wanted http://www.buymeaferrari.com to point to schatten.dyndns.org (my server at home), then I could do that, but it will still say http://www.buymeaferrari.com - that is unless I had a breakout script that would prevent that.