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Lifer
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Without buying a domain or anything? I'd like to 'test' my idea, but I've never done a website before so I want to see what I can do/what it'd be like.

Is there anyway to do this, or am I just going to have to buy a domain and experiment?
 
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manlymatt83

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Uhm. You can get a free hosting account from hundreds of places. What is it you're trying to do? Custom scripting?
 
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b0mbrman

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Originally posted by: Quintox
Without buying a domain or anything? I'd like to 'test' my idea, but I've never done a website before so I want to see what I can do/what it'd be like.

Is there anyway to do this, or am I just going to have to buy a domain and experiment?
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Play with some ad-ridden, free service like Geocities...
 
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snapper316

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better yet find a friend that does websites who can give you a practice domain (yourname.theirdomain.com) and hosting and the full setup so you get used to it.

do you already HTML code or frontpage/dreamweaver
 
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ForumMaster

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first, do you know any html or and other "language" for creating websites? if not, firsl learn how to do that unless you plan on creating you whole site thourgh a program such as dreamweaver or a page creater like what yahoo offers you.

i'd suggest first learning the language and creating you site through the best tool in windows: notepad!

then, if you'll notice, darthworth if offering free web hosting to any AT member.
 
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moshquerade

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Originally posted by: FoBoT
you can use googlepages.com


<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="https://www.google.com/accounts/Service...2Fpages.google.com%2F&ltmpl=yessignups"><a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=pages&continue=http%3A%2F%2Fpages.google.com%2F&ltmpl=yessignups">https://www.google.com/accounts/S.........google.com%2F&ltmpl=yessignups</a></a>


http://fobot.fobot.googlepages.com/
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*slaps FoBot upside the head*
 
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Lifer
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Originally posted by: Blazin Trav
Buy a godaddy or 1and1 hosting account and go nuts?
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Yeah but it looks intimidating..all this stuff bout ICANN fees and .mobi's or something. Plus how would I know I'm protected from hackers?
 
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thirtythree

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There's a member of ATOT who offers free hosting, lemme see if I can find his thread. (I believe he was banned but still offers hosting?)

EDIT: Guess he's back (and stickied): Text

EDIT2: ...and in case you didn't know, you don't really need a host to try creating web pages. You can just save them on your computer and view them from there.
 
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Lifer
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Originally posted by: thirtythree
There's a member of ATOT who offers free hosting, lemme see if I can find his thread. (I believe he was banned but still offers hosting?)

EDIT: Guess he's back (and stickied): Text

EDIT2: ...and in case you didn't know, you don't really need a host to try creating web pages. You can just save them on your computer and view them from there.
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How do I do them on my PC for practice? Sorry for all the questions
 
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thirtythree

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Originally posted by: Quintox
Originally posted by: thirtythree
There's a member of ATOT who offers free hosting, lemme see if I can find his thread. (I believe he was banned but still offers hosting?)

EDIT: Guess he's back (and stickied): Text

EDIT2: ...and in case you didn't know, you don't really need a host to try creating web pages. You can just save them on your computer and view them from there.
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How do I do them on my PC for practice? Sorry for all the questions
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Depends: do you want to learn the code or do you want to use a program to create webpages (e.g., Dreamweaver, though I think there are some free programs as well).

EDIT: If you want to learn the code, I'd start here. Should tell you everything you need to know to get started.
 
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Lifer
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I want to try a free program, I'm not creating a professional website here :)

Is that apache2triad a freeware thing?
 
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txrandom

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Install WAMP on your computer (Windows Apache MySQL PHP), search for it on Google. Type localhost into browser after installation. Voila, you have your own webpage visible to anyone on your network and anyone with internet if you configure ports.
 
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thirtythree

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Originally posted by: Quintox
I want to try a free program, I'm not creating a professional website here :)
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KompoZer was recommended in one of the software threads, but you might want to post in that section for other suggestions.
 
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NanoStuff

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Just host it locally. Not only do you not need to pay for hosting, you don't even have to register a domain, you can simply give the IP address out to whoever. You don't necessarily even have to host it, just view it locally, the effect will be the same unless you intend to make back-end applications.
 
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Eos

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If you create a folder in C:\ with the name of the site you want, you can write pages in HTML and drop them into that directory. Once saved there, open that file and your browser should do the rest. You can create an images folder and write the code like this < img******="../yoursite.com/art/your.image.jpg" > and if you have an art folder made in the yoursite.com folder, the images will display on your computer and also when you finally upload to a host.

My attempt to display raw code failed. < img ess are see =
 
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Lifer
Jul 21, 2005
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OK I got e107 plugin, I've heard it's good and its free.

Now, I have it in a file, but looks like I can't use it at all until I get a domain or something? Anyone know what I mean? There is no .exe icon or anything...I guess you have to upload the files onto a site before you can do anything?

I'm confused....once again

I really appreciate all the help...oh, and e107 wiki didn't help me
 
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