How to make a website using free web hosts

Does anyone know how to make a website using free web hosts, the one I've tried using is: www.freewebs.com But I can't seem to do it, I know Cheesy has his own website which is very good. Was wondering if anyone can help me? It's going to be for gaming so any help is appreciated. :D

whats wrong with freewebs? me and my friends use it and it works great. heres our site: radio4life.webs.com
Ps. its on swedish^^ Ds.

i use weebly, not very good but meh its free :P
weeebly is very easy, its all drag and drop, you dont need any info on HTML and stuff, but it is very basic.

There's nothing wrong with freewebs, I just don't really know what I'm doing. How to upload templates is the main issue, once I've got the template uploaded that I want, I can fiddle around.
Cheesy can I have the link to this weebly please?

EDIT: http://linkedgaming.clangrid.com/ My website so far. xD

That's using clangrid so do I need to upload that to webs? And if so, how do I do that? :\ This is where I'm confused.

its just weebly.com ;)

im taking a look at that freewebs thing now and it looks pretty similar to weebly to be honest. Ill probably make a freeweb one soon just for comparision ;)

I've just spoken to live support on there and asked him a few questions and he didn't help me at all. I'll have a look at weebly.com - can you upload templates from other websites, I want to upload this template (http://clantemplates.com/templates/c...hancedwarfare/) on there.

EDIT: Okay, I've started weebly, managed to get the basics started (http://linkgamingcss.weebly.com/)
The question is - now what do I do? :D

Looks like you got the template up. Just need to make some form of content area, then add content.

I can't upload a template because they all say they're missing files - if I upload a screenshot can somebody help me because I think it's just a case of putting some files in to a new folder with a certain name.

EDIT: This is what I get:
http://i43.tinypic.com/sv2r1g.jpg

Make sure the templates have index.html and main_style.css. I'm sure index.html is there but you'll probably need to rename their css file to main_style.css. Once you do that though, you'll have to change its reference in the HTML file as well. So open the HTML file in some text editor and change this part:

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<link href="_____.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>

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<link href="main_style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>

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There isn't a mian_style.css file unless it's in a text file. I'll see about the index.html though, thank you. :)

EDIT: I don't have any text files except Thumbs.db :|

look for a css file. then rename that to main_style.css and follow the instructions above.

I recommend to make a website by yourself, and then host 'em on websites like 110MB or 50Webs (What You See Is What You Get Editors, WYSIWYG Editors, are your answer)

Neroez would help if you explained by "make a website by yourself" because that's what I'm doing. Using weebly.com to make my own website like Cheesy did.

Buy your own host and domain.


So much better :)

And so much more expensive for a 15 year old, attending a sports college with no job. ;)

Don't use that excuse. I purchased my first domain at age 9 with the money saved in my piggy bank. Domains can be as cheap as 4$ a year and a decent sized server would be around 6-7$ a month, and that's a stretch. All you need to do is know where to find good hosting. In my honest opinion, my time spent on free hosting websites trying to figure out ways around the various ads and attachés that accompany them was a complete waste of time. If you're going to pursue an interest in web design I highly advise you take the right route. Nothing against free web hosts, but nothing worthwhile is free, especially in terms of web design. Do things right, and you will be glad you did. There is nothing worse than finding out you wasted time on a dying practice, and working with free web hosts at a time when web design is at an all time peak in regards to creative competition...dying practice would be an understatement.

Some of the main reasons why i dislike web hosters with "website builders" and offer free hosting are:

no control of your content
Not only do you rarely have the ability to modify the actual meat of your page, you have to bargain with the hoster by allowing them to post ads on your site. So they make money off of your traffic. You also have no control over your source. Anything you post can be changed, modified, deleted, etc at the full discretion of the hoster. Talk about security issues.

professionalism
Web design is the meat and potatoes of professionalism. By this I mean, if you don't appear to be professional, you won't get any work. And for those that aren't interested in getting work, why do you post your work on a website in the first place. The number one killer for most potential clients is seeing that extra subdomain attached to yours. It was a deal breaker every time for me. It's hard to convince your clients they need to purchase a server and domain for their business website when you haven't paid the same respects to yours.

quality
As I said before, nothing worthwhile is free. It takes a conscious effort on your part to make sure you make something that is worth taking the space. If you design sigs and take them seriously, you should make it worth your time to spend equal or greater amounts of time on developing the site that will give them a home. With free hosters you are at the mercy of their web builder. Some are okay, but most are attrocious, and after looking at the 164 errors weebly slammed into just one page of your site, I'm already convinced. Whats worse is some free website hosters offer additional services if you PAY for them. Give me a break.

dignity
Don't shame all of us by stooping to using free website builders. Show us you mean it and do it the right way!

If you need any help pursuing this, I will gladly be of assistance, as would many of the others who frequent the forums. All you have to do is ask. Hopefully I haven't offended you, but merely pointed you in the right direction, which was my full intention.

Here are a few hosters I've had good experiences with.

http://mediatemple.net/
http://1and1.com/
http://godaddy.com/

I personally run my own server. It's free, fast and I can make hardware changes as I please.

You can use any computer to run the server. Only downside is, if you have a dynamic IP it's not possible to use a regular domain name. (www.google.com)

But I can install scripts, use any service I want and can use it as a media hub for my house.

It's not for the feint of heart. It requires quite a bit of knowledge and time to set up. Since it yours, there's no admin to contact, your it.


http://amphosted.com/ is an excellent host. Cheap, reliable. I've considered changing to a hosted site rather then a server, just for convenience.

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Originally Posted by dccarnage

Neroez would help if you explained by "make a website by yourself" because that's what I'm doing. Using weebly.com to make my own website like Cheesy did.

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You should search on Google to "WYSIWYG Editor". ;)

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http://www.google.com/search?q=wysiwyg+editor&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:nl:official&client=firefox-a

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Thanks for all the advice, I will take it in to consideration and start saving up some money. My Dad has his own website so is going to make a page for me to play around with which I guess is a start.

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Originally Posted by Neroez

You should search on Google to "WYSIWYG Editor". ;)

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http://www.google.com/search?q=wysiwyg+editor&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:nl:official&client=firefox-a

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WYSISWYG editors are usually faulty as well. Not to intentionally rain on your parade or anything, :P. Those types of editors are nice and convenient, but the type of code they create is almost always going to cause more problems than they are worth, especially when cross-browser compatibility comes into play.

Dreamweaver is a good program for those that are fairly versed with html, mainly because it does alot for you, but is very easy to ruin good work with. DW has alot of nuances in the WYSIWYG editor that are attrocius in code, like how you create a new paragraph every time you hit enter while in live mode. Even if it's empty, it leaves empty p elements. BAD.

Solaris you said how you got your first website domain at the age of 9, how did you afford something like vBulletin? It's like £100... What domain did you use?

I didn't use vbulletin...when did I say that? :P

I bought solarisdesigns.net and a server, and just uploaded my stuff. Owned that domain for a good 7 years before my hoster left business, and I moved to flashadvocate.com

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Originally Posted by Solaris

Dreamweaver is a good program for those that are fairly versed with html, mainly because it does alot for you, but is very easy to ruin good work with.

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yeah, I've accidentally tapped in the editor and seen my whole website go to hell. Not quite the same as what you were talking about, but hey :P I use it now just to locate stuff in the code, when it starts to get pretty large.

Yeah, DW is EXCELLENT for css however ;) And firebug :P

If you know what your doing notepad++ works wonders, i use dreamweaver but i always use the text editor. If you find it difficult to code in html i personally would go and read some tutorials before even thinking about creating a site.(if i catch anyone saying they only use notepad to code i will hunt them down and use there computer to download ripped music)

I used notepad for years. lol. Notepad++ is nice because of the syntax coloring. Makes it easier to read and tidy up code.

notepad was useful way back, but when designing professionally taking extra minutes looking over your code is not needed with the new text editors.

for those who have not visited go here to find notepad++

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http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net

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I'll just play around with the page my Dad gives me from his site and go from there.

Good luck with it carn.

And like my old colleagues used to say "it doesnt matter how cool your editor is, in the end all that matters is what you put in it" :)

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Originally Posted by Solaris

Good luck with it carn.

And like my old colleagues used to say "it doesnt matter how cool your editor is, in the end all that matters is what you put in it" :)

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unless your own a ferrari then your as cool as your editor :).