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Reply 20

Kodias

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Original post by Broderss

What's wrong with 1and1? :unsure:

1&1 are a complete joke.

I'd put Inmotion on the hosting list, although they make you pay a lump sum as opposed to instalments, for some packages > http://www.inmotionhosting.com/

http://statcounter.com/ > if anyone ever needed an alternative to Google Analytics

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/ > largest forum for discussions on SEO, Adsense, etc.

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769 > Google Webmaster guidelines.

Reply 21

Broderss

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Original post by Kodias

1&1 are a complete joke.

In what way though?

Reply 22

Kodias

14

Original post by Broderss

In what way though?

Their site navigation used to be terrible when I was using it, the hoops I had to jump through to try and cancel my account were ridiculous.

http://blog.cryos.net/archives/25-11-Yet-More-Terrible-Service....html
http://amplicate.com/hate/1and1
http://www.grumbletext.co.uk/vt.php?t=1242

A lot of people seem to have had positive experiences with them but personally I won't be creating an account with them again.

Reply 23

jb9191

3

Some of those links are really for amateurs.

The best one is for the scripts @ www.hotscripts.com

The rest are either very well known already or not very good at all.

Here are some links for vector images to create good backgrounds in PhotoShop and Illustrator for websites and custom menu's.

http://www.freevectors.net/recent/50

http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/50-websites-for-free-vector-images-download/

Here is also a free css tab designer.

http://www.highdots.com/products/css-tab-designer/

Also web designers should look for highly professional fonts to use in graphics.

Code Light & Code Bold are two very good stylish fonts to use for headers and so on.

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You might also want to try Bit Font Maker for creating unique fonts.

Typetester is also good for comparing fonts against each other.

http://www.typetester.org/

HTML Ipsum is also very good.

http://html-ipsum.com/

This is a good site to cross test your site in a browser

http://crossbrowsertesting.com/

Also, if you have a MAC I strongly recommend CSSEdit as its very good. :smile:

on-screen ruler MeasureIt is very good :smile:

Format CSS and CSS Compressor are also good tools :smile:

I also suggest you check out DeviantArt for a full catalogue of graphics, vectors, actions, fonts and so on to add to your site.

Reply 24

cabbage

Can anyone tell me a good web host? I'm looking for a free, or pretty cheap one. It's mainly for messing around and trying things out at the moment. One that I can use php on would be good.

Thanks

Reply 25

mfaxford

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might be worth seeing what your ISP offers failing that if your at uni then your uni might offer somewhere you can host some pages and use php.

Reply 26

Chris_L

2

I might be able to set you up, I run a reseller.

Reply 27

RedGuy

11

http://www.pixelinternet.co.uk/compare-linux-hosting.php

Starter plan, £19.99 for one year. I am currently using this deal and I get a lot of visits for my site. Very reliable and easy. You can register a domain with them too, but they are not the cheapest. I use fasthosts for my domain

http://www.fasthosts.co.uk/domains/

Reply 28

AWSLC

14

Original post by cabbage

Can anyone tell me a good web host? I'm looking for a free, or pretty cheap one. It's mainly for messing around and trying things out at the moment. One that I can use php on would be good.

Thanks

000Webhost

or

123-Reg have a special on for hosting at the moment which is nicely priced: http://www.123-reg.co.uk/studenthosting/

Reply 29

RightSaidJames

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If you want it on an ad-hoc basis, try NearlyFreeSpeech.NET. It's basically pay-as-you-go or pay for what you use, and its rates are really cheap especially if you don't plan on getting too much traffic.

Reply 30

JGR

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I can vouch for Zernebok http://www.zernebok.com/

Reply 31

Hedger

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Has anyone used any Amazon web hosting services? I only realised they offered such services when the they banned wikileaks from their servers. I'd most likely go with them if they did any good deals for more amateur / personal accounts, obviously ignoring my morals.

Reply 32

estel

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Original post by _MaLc_

Has anyone used any Amazon web hosting services? I only realised they offered such services when the they banned wikileaks from their servers. I'd most likely go with them if they did any good deals for more amateur / personal accounts, obviously ignoring my morals.

I don't think they're aimed at power users. A9 is fantastic if you're running a webservice and might want to quickly ramp up your available capacity, but I can't see them being competitive at smaller scales.

Reply 33

Mehcore

Fatcow offers unmetered/unlimited hosting for £30/pa with a free domain and advertising credits.

Reply 34

Conorrr

Original post by cabbage

Can anyone tell me a good web host? I'm looking for a free, or pretty cheap one. It's mainly for messing around and trying things out at the moment. One that I can use php on would be good.

Thanks

If you just want something to mess around with then just run it on your own system.

You will need:

Apache (2.2.17)
PHP You will need a VC6 version as you will be running Apache 2

You will probably want:

MySQL

and thats all you will need, shouldn't take long to set up.

Reply 35

Mehcore

Original post by Conorrr

If you just want something to mess around with then just run it on your own system.

You will need:

Apache (2.2.17)
PHP You will need a VC6 version as you will be running Apache 2

You will probably want:

MySQL

and thats all you will need, shouldn't take long to set up.

Or if you want to have an all in one bundle give XAMPP a shot. Theres a few issues with the default install so I wouldn't use it as a web facing server, just for home intranet.

Reply 36

derexel

1

Original post by RightSaidJames

If you want it on an ad-hoc basis, try NearlyFreeSpeech.NET. It's basically pay-as-you-go or pay for what you use, and its rates are really cheap especially if you don't plan on getting too much traffic.

+1 NFS is really good if you're starting out. It only gets expensive when your site becomes big. (More visitors, more storage, ...)

Reply 37

Jonnerz

Good hosting sites:
www.hostaltitude.com

Domain registrar:
www.netearthone.com

Marketplace:
www.freemarket.com

Traffic statistics:
Google Analytics - Very detailed stats of visitors.
http://analytics.google.com

Reply 38

jb9191

3

3IX is the best for a starter.

http://www.3ix.org/

Very cheap and have used them for 3 years with downtime once.

http://www.3ix.org/web_hosting_uk.php

Cant go wrong for £8.50 per year to learn or £24 per year if you need unlimited bandwidth - until you get your head around web design then you won't need that to start off.

The basic Excite Package gives you enough to learn - You can create 2 MySQL databases and so on.

Im on the next package up :biggrin:

Reply 39

boBbi.J

Urgent: can anyone here design blog layouts? :smile:

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