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Any suggestions on how to quickly put together a site? Something pre-packaged

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Arkitech

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I'm looking for a free way to quickly put together a site. It's going to be a tech focused site so I'll need an easy way to add articles and pictures. That's about it. Any suggestions on a place to get free layouts. I'm kinda noob to site building so the simpler the better for me.
 
I use Wordpress for my site. Easy to install, customize, and maintain. Lots of great add-ons as well.
 
Wordpress or other blog is the easiest thing. Or just post a new thread on here every time you have a new and exciting thought, that's what I do.
 
Arkitech said:
I'm looking for a free way to quickly put together a site. It's going to be a tech focused site so I'll need an easy way to add articles and pictures. That's about it. Any suggestions on a place to get free layouts. I'm kinda noob to site building so the simpler the better for me.
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I would recommend a CMS (Content Management System) most are open source (free).

Go to http://www.opensourcecms.com and check out the demos in the top left.

If you don't want to manually install a script, find a web host which offers softaculous, which automatically installs scripts in about 2-3 clicks, 10 seconds later and the site is ready to go live. Go here to find deals on web hosts.

Any questions, PM me before Monday 12/31/2012 evening.
 
RossMAN said:
I would recommend a CMS (Content Management System) most are open source (free).

Go to http://www.opensourcecms.com and check out the demos in the top left.

If you don't want to manually install a script, find a web host which offers softaculous, which automatically installs scripts in about 2-3 clicks, 10 seconds later and the site is ready to go live. Go here to find deals on web hosts.

Any questions, PM me before Monday 12/31/2012 evening.
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Pretty much this. You could get a cheap webhost that comes with a script installer and have a WordPress instance up and running very quickly. If you want to make it look good, there are tons of good free themes out there; I'd check out the free ones from WooThemes.
 
Ahhhhh, I see you want free, but remember you will need to pay for hosting(which can be very cheap, I recommend madgenius.com. 1 of the admins posts here) and a domain.

themeforest.net is fucking great, but you have to pay for them. Very inexpensive, incredibly well written HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, WP, etc., etc. stuff. Honestly the themes there are top-notch! Check it out.
 
xanis said:
Pretty much this. You could get a cheap webhost that comes with a script installer and have a WordPress instance up and running very quickly. If you want to make it look good, there are tons of good free themes out there; I'd check out the free ones from WooThemes.
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It's amazing the number of popular sites that use Wordpress.

The sheer number of themes, mods, hacks, modules, and other customization software is great.
 
I use Arvixe (http://www.arvixe.com/) for hosting. They're cheap, reliable, and have basically everything that's been mentioned here built in for free. So you pay your $5/month, get hosting, email, a domain, etc...and then if you want a DNN/Drupal/Wordpess-based site, just click a button and it will install it for you. Then you're goo to go.
 
Deeko said:
I use Arvixe (http://www.arvixe.com/) for hosting. They're cheap, reliable, and have basically everything that's been mentioned here built in for free. So you pay your $5/month, get hosting, email, a domain, etc...and then if you want a DNN/Drupal/Wordpess-based site, just click a button and it will install it for you. Then you're goo to go.
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Or talk to vivithemage, who runs a hosting company.
 
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