Gary,
Find yourself an internet service provider that offers disk space for web sites
-- it shouldn't run you any more than $30 a month.
Next, if you're going to have a web site for a small business, you should apply
for your own domain name so you won't force your customers to enter a long URL.
(For example, "www.momspie.com" as opposed to
"http://www.yourserver.net/users/~gary/index.html" Most good ISPs offer to
handle domain name acquisition and installation for a small fee. The domain
name itself will run roughly $100 for the first two years and then a maintenance
fee after that.
If you're going to do the web site yourself, there's a plethora of good WYSIWYG
(What-you-see-is-what-you-get) web publishing software out there on the market,
but for the combination of price, features and ease of use you'd be hard pressed
to beat Microsoft Front Page. Buy yourself a good HTML manual to tweak the code
afterward, a scanner to slap up some graphics and you're in business. Check out
my rudimentary site ( the address is below ) to see what's possible on an
amateur level using Front Page, hand coding, a flatbed scanner and some simple
JavaScript routines.
This will give you the tools to do some pretty nice work with some imagination,
planning and patience, but for a truly professional site you're going to need
some scripts incorporated into the site.
This should get you started. Have fun. If I can help, let me know.
> I raced Nascar 3 last night over my modem connection and it wasn't a very
> good experience to say the least. Cable modems aren't available in my area
> yet and probably won't be for some time...very rural area. I'm starting a
> small business and want to advertise using a web site also. What would be
> my best bet from software for the web page to what type of server
> etc.....what do I need and about what's it going to cost me? A young guy at
> work said I could get something run into my house for $70 a month??? I
> don't think he knows what he's talking about he usually doesn't.
> Thanks for your help,
> Gary
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Bob Curtin
Worcester Area Strategy & Tactics Exchange
http://www.tiac.net/users/ten10ths/
"If God had intended men to join the Army he would have given us green, baggy
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