Hi There

 

Just thought i's hop on and say hi. Im loop!

 

I have only just started out in the magical workd of webdesign after a few of my friends and i got bored of looking at twenty different websites everytime we wanted to find out which showjumping or dressage competition was on, so i made a little website. www.horsepoo.co.uk with some free software i downloaded from tinternet.

 

Since then i have been asked to do four websites - eeek!!!!

 

Now im stuck!!!

 

I must have better software, but dont know what to buy?

I'd also like to 'host' my own sites (or so ive been told) but dont actually know what that means!

Also some of the chaps want to be able to edit their own websites once ive created them, how do i give them one (maybe 2) editable pages.

 

Im stuck, so if you hear a lot from me and i start to get annoying - do let me know !!

 

Ha ha!!!!

 

Lots of love.

 

Loop

Hello loop and welcome to the forum

Welcome to the forum Loop! It seems you've got your foot in the door if you've got people wanting you to make websites for them, however (and in as nice a way as possible) I don't think you should really be selling websites just yet! I'd get started by taking a look at www.htmldog.com to learn XHTML and CSS and take a look at www.w3schools.org as aswell.

 

You'll probably want some decent graphics at some point in your web design career, a lot of us around here use Photoshop or Fireworks to make images, both of which have free trials avaliable at www.adobe.com. There are some free alternatives though such as GIMP.

 

As for being able to give the users a few editable pages I think what you need is a CMS (Content Management System) which there are a lot of. My personal favourite is Wordpress although there are a good number of them available.

 

For hosting websites I think what you want is a reseller account from a hosting website such as www.polurnet.com (there are many, but this is just an example and the company I use), you could host your websites off of your own computer but unless you have a very good Internet connection and a computer that you are willing to leave on all day (and expose to security threats) then you would be better either buying a reseller account or advising customers on how to provide their own hosting.

 

Hope I helped to clear a few things up and don't hesitate to ask any questions! We're a friendly bunch.

Thanks for the advice ref selling sites, im talking £20 quid sites here people arent expecting fab sites like this one (i hope!!) but i understand where your coming from.

 

Thanks for the info on the other bits n bobs, i shall look into them tonight.

 

Anyone got any advise on courses so that i can leanr to do websites properly and not just crash my way through them like i am now!!!

Hi Loop

 

Welcome and I hope you become another brick in the wall.

 

Good luck

Thanks for the advice ref selling sites, im talking £20 quid sites here people arent expecting fab sites like this one (i hope!!) but i understand where your coming from.

 

Thanks for the info on the other bits n bobs, i shall look into them tonight.

 

Anyone got any advise on courses so that i can leanr to do websites properly and not just crash my way through them like i am now!!!

 

You really don't need any courses, just take a look at www.htmldog.com and www.w3schools.com and work from the ground up. You should aim to be able to code websites without a WYSIWYG editor.

Welcome to the forum loop

I hope you enjoy it here

If you need v. basic content management (literally just text and images) then try CushyCMS. It's insanely simple.

Welcome to the forum Loop.

 

Hope you stick around.

Hey!!!!!!!!!!!!! Good luck!!