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Posted by Con Coleman on 17 October 2011 - 12:02pm.
Knowing that the Word community is hoachin' with web-savvy types, can any Massivistas recommend a good - and preferably free - website hosting service?
My FPO wants to create a web page or two for some writing workshops she's running, and has asked me to look into what's out there. We don't need complex flash content or excessive interactivity - just a nice clean and modern-looking page where she can say a little about the business and post news of forthcoming workshops. An easy-to-use CMS would be even better.
Any advice would be brilliant.
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Why not
set up a free account on wordpress.com?
If you configure it to have a static front page, you can put the business info there, then put the updates on the blog bit.
well ...
I'd thoroughly recommend justhost ... I've found them to be reasonably priced and very quick to respond to administrative or technical questions.
I think he
doesn't want to spend any money
Happy to spend money...
but don't have much, so even minimal investment would have to have clear advantages over anything free.
Basic webhosting
running Wordpress (wordpress.org) as your CMS should cost about £20 a year.
You'd then need to get a domain name.
The cheapest I've seen are .info addresses from GoDaddy, which cost about £1/year I think.
A .co.uk domain will set you back something like £6-10/year.
FWIW
I've had an account with 1&1 for at least 10 years now and have never had a problem with them. I don't know what the prices are at the moment but you can upscale and downsize if it suits. I wouldn't move just in case anyone else isn't as good.
Thanks for the advice, one and all
If you don't need a proper url
your own email etc then just create a page on Tumblr or WordPress. The latter has more whistles and bells. Both have free templates so it's easy to create quite whizzy pages.
Here's what I done with my rudimentary skills:
http://www.clearthedecks.tumblr.com
Http://www.recordshopcity.Co.uk
If you want to go with a fully hosted website I recommend Birch Hosting. They're UK based and do some very cheap deals for a couple of quid per month.