Web site? I want to write, design and launch a site for free or very low cost. Any ideas?

Question

The web site is for a local voluntary organisation.. and needs a web site.

I am willing to use templates etc and have photos / files that would be put on.

However, the organisation have very little money.. so all needs to be free or very low cost.

How would I build, design, and launch onto the internet?
I need to know set up costs and ongoing costs every month.

Any help or links or info appreciated.
Thanks

Answer 1

Sign up with moonfruit. Free to build and host a site. Some ads but nothing obtrusive or unacceptable. Upgrade to an ad-free version for £5.99 per month.

Answer 2

All you need is at:

http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/

You can download Webplus 6 for free or upgrade to Webplus 10 for only a tenner. You can also get free photo editing / desktop publishing software there. I personally love serif products as they are very easy to use, intuitive and simple.

For a sample of what you can build, have a look at my site - www.wildwoodguitars.co.uk This was built using the same program.

For hosting, beware of very cheap offers - these are cheap for a reason (unreliable, very limited space, lots of strings attached) You can't do much better than 1 & 1 for web hosts. Not only will you get your site on-line but you get free tools which will show you haw many people visit, what the most popular pages are etc, etc.

Good luck.

Answer 3

Here is one good extract oy my findings.

Firstly u subscribe for www.gmail.com Get a mail id. Then go to www.googlepages.com Here u can create website free of cost without any tool and ur website will not have a single advertise. Webspace is 100 MB. If you have subscribed as [e-mail] then ur webaddress will be www.abcd.googlepages.com

Now to have a good domain name that too free of cost: Subscribe to www.uni.cc It provides domain forwarding by hiding actual domain name. Suppose u opted for a domin name like "abcd", it gives a domain name like www.abcd.uni.cc and that too without any advertise. You can use their (www.uni.cc) control panel to forward it to ur website on googlepages.com

U can visit my web to see a practical
Short name is
www.evaibhav.uni.cc

Hope you find it useful :)

Answer 4

I use freeola (www.freeola.com) to host my own wite (www.funkydoodycool.co.uk if you fancy a look). The hosting, access, and everything else is unlimited and free but there is one catch - you have to dial up to their own internet service to access your FTP server. Thats fine for me, cos I use their broadband service, which is very good.

I pay £20 to register my site every two years, and that is all I pay for it.

Answer 5

hey there lot many free web hosting sites which allow you to sign with free account....
Jst now i read about Weebly.com which is quite good..
Wanna get more info on this visit:
http://website-developmentandmarketing.blogspot.com/2006/11/weebly-web-creation-made-easy.html

Answer 6

Check out this one 1&1 hosting.

http://1and1.co.uk/xml/init/?k_id=6480434

I set up a site for 28.00 for two years

Answer 7

You may want to try www.freewebs.com for hosting. I have used them and when I used them it seemed to be fine.