Torrix

Yep its "contact" - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118884/

At my office I use a 24" Dell screen for web development and have an old 17" screen which I use to have our live support software running in, but I have just started working 'in house' for a company doing their website development and they have given me a nice pc (Intel Quad 2.66GHz) but an old 17" screen and things are a little cramped. I'm considering buying a cheapish 23/24" and bringing it in as it'd be better than what I'm using now.
 
Just curious about what size screens/setups you guys/gals have.

You could just use Grooveshark, and no audio ads

webhost.uk.net, STOP with the self promoting, you have been around for only 2 years, and EVERY time anybody asks these honest questions, you always jive in with "Check out our hosting plans"... Well, we have checked out your hosting plans and see that just like many others, you offer nothing unique, as just like all the others, your overselling, and offering things you couldnt possibly provide.
 
So why not stick to helping, instead of over-selling...
 
Now, to answer Lemony....
 
 
This sounds more like a problem with your friends computer because websites dont get flagged up as malicius for no reason, and certainly NEVER just because they dont have an SSL certificate or dedicated IP address, so for now, I wouldnt worry about those, you wont need.

 
Absolutely, especially with so many web hosting companies overselling and blatently putting false information up on their websites. Take "webhost.uk.net" who answered your post already, highly oversold hosting packages, AND the address they have put on their website as "Our office" is actually the office of a company formation service, and NOT their own office at all. Just google their "office address" and see how many companies are claiming that to be their address, it truly is a nightmare trying to find any host who is actually honest, and does things properly, so yes, choosing a host is a nightmare...
 
One thing you may want to avoid doing is asking in hosting forums for a host though because sadly all your likely to get is hosting companies all telling you to check out their websites, which leaves you right back at square one again.
 
Ideally, you want a host you can telephone 7 days a week, including ourside normal office hours, none of these 10pm to 6pm monday to friday part time people..
No, not at all, all html/CSS works on both Windows and Linux servers, but windows hosting costs more, so people only generally use windows hosting when they have specific need to, such as websites coded only in the .asp language, so the vast majority of web hosting available is linux based as its generally cheaper, and the .php language can do anything the .asp language can do
 
It might be easier to know what to avoid:
 
Avoid any hosting offering you:
- Hundreds of gigabytes of bandwidth or space a month on any shared package.
- Office hours only for telephone contact.
- NO telephone number at all.
- No address on their website that you can actually visit.
 
Never pick any host just based on their website alone, pick up the phone, call them, talk to them, ask questions, go and see them if you can, if they dont want to or allow you to go to their office and see them, then they dont want your business or to help you. Even if your too far away, ask if you can go see them anyway to get their answer to that. Some might give you garbage relies like "For security reasons" or data protection" but those are just garbage, your looking for a host that will be open and honest with you, right from day 1.

 
As your a complete beginner, best thing is to simply take things 1 script at a time. You can easily do all this with PHP and MySQL which are the script and database languages used on Linux servers, its easy to do, but like all things, "only if you know what your doing" so its worth asking your chosen hosting company to guide you through it if possible. Even better if they can login to your computer remotely and show you...

 
Some stock, and thats it. If you use any "off-the-shelf" shopping cart system, most of these have stock control built in, if you want to code your own then you will have to build that yourself.

Downlad as many web browsers as you like and install them on your own computer, its really simple and they are all free.
 
 
 
Well, a well constructed, optimised web page should be around 15 to 30kb, so 200 of those would be 6000kb, or lets say 6mb to round it up. Forums and shops generally have somewhat bigger pages, so lets double that to 12mb, then add all the anciliary files that go with forums and shop scripts, and your going to be looking at anywhere from 20mb to possibly 50mb at most if you go bonkers with it...
 
Bandwidth, your only going to use whatever people visit and download, so if its just you using the website to test and learn, then you would need to download EVERY page of those 200, just to hit something like 35mb of usage, do that every day for a month and you use around 900+mb of traffic a month, but you would be so busy loading all those pages, you wouldnt have time for anything else.
 
Honestly, firms that offer you hundreds of gigabytes a month of traffic, will always have items in their terms and conditions to ensure you can and wont ever be able to use all that, so its best to just find a host who is actually realistic about what people use and need instead of inflating the figures.
 
Shame our politicians are not capable of that too...
 
 
I think its best to know what to avoid, because more than 80% of web host's oversell, many often post their own testimonials on their own web pages, some are just resellers of bigger companies who will give you more grief than you ever need (See posts here on companies like Streamline for an example) and many wont provide ANY contact addresses at all, or only give the wrong addresses of a "registered" office which isnt theirs.
 
Avoid:
- No phone numbers at all
- No address on their website
- Only open during office hours
- Wont welcome a customer visit
- Offering you hundreds of gigabytes of space for only a few pounds a month
- Offering you hundreds of gigabytes of traffic for only a few pounds a month
 
As them where their servers are located too, if your in the UK, ideally it would be more suitable to use UK servers.
 
It can be a headache, but like I said, find a company, phone them, more than once and ask as many questions as you need to, ask to go see them if need be and get a reaction, if they fob you off, then they dont want people knowing how they really do business or maybe are hiding something from you..
 
Your pretty much looking to really test the water before you buy, but you dont even need a hosting account before building your website, you can simply load your web pages right from your own hard drive if no databases are involved. (Keeping things simple here)

I guess your talking about WYSIWYG editor then? When you say your learning HTML are you talking about CSS as well etc and how far are you in “learning” these?
 
Personally I tried to use a text editor (notepad++ in my case) to learn the above and added the graphics into the code (and I still am), that way I knew/know what the code etc was doing for me and not what the program is telling the code to do. If you get my drift?
 
I used DW properly for the first time today had it ages but every time I used it I didn’t like the WYSIWYG get bit for some reason. But today it helped as I understood the code and was able to manipulate it to how I needed/wanted it!
 
In your learning etc where are you? This may help to see how to go around getting better?
Hope the above makes sense lol
 
Torrix

Hiya MG
 
Yes, all 3 of our companies use cpanel and upgrading is a breeze, anytime you like.
We dont provide any reseller accounts at all, purely due to the nature of the kind of customers that arise out of doing it, and also because its highly unfair to the end customers to introduce 1 single point of failiure for their website (the reseller) when the host has gone to great lengths to ensure redundancy.
 
Especially with resellers who go on holiday or wind up in hospital / uncontactable etc etc, it leaves their customers hanging, and so passes on that bad feeling to the host, so we steer well clear of any of those complications at all, we keep things strictly between us and the end customer.
 
Plus of course, there are some resellers out there too who know absolutely nothing about hosting at all and expect the host to do everything for them, thus they want more support for less money, like buying a set of spanners and asking the guy in halfords to service your car for you as well as drive it....
 
Buying the spanners and tools make us NOT a mechanic and taxi driver.

From memory Lynda is stupidly expensive...
 
Get nettuts / psdtuts... When you get signup to one you get the whole range of tuts things in there networks....
 
The link is in my signature and I genuinely would say it is worth signing up for....
 
Its $9 a month which is considerably cheaper than lynda from memory and you also get resources that can be used in commercial projects with this too.

Hi,
 
Or you could try Nettuts and Blip.tv for tutorials.
 
Dan.