Starting a website?
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Hi all, if I'm going to make this photography thing a real hobby I want to be able to host my pictures on something other than flickr or photobucket!
I just want something very simple which I can have a few different galleries for different events/types of photos.
Am looking to purchase a mac shortly and have seen other peoples websites which seem to have a dedicated mac space, is this something that needs to be paid for separately or should I simply look to buy a url and host that way?
I'm a bit of a novice too but hope to get this sorted...*ny hints/tips?
Woza.
Edit: website I was referring to was hosted at web.me.com anyone else use this?
I just want something very simple which I can have a few different galleries for different events/types of photos.
Am looking to purchase a mac shortly and have seen other peoples websites which seem to have a dedicated mac space, is this something that needs to be paid for separately or should I simply look to buy a url and host that way?
I'm a bit of a novice too but hope to get this sorted...*ny hints/tips?
Woza.
Edit: website I was referring to was hosted at web.me.com anyone else use this?
Edited by Woza on Monday 31st August 08:15
I'd get a bit of mac space , buy a cheap URL from somone like www.easily.co.uk and then point the URL at the webspace. If you want a dedicated e mail address, you can buy that at the same time from easily (ie woza@woza.com). It aint expensive any more (When I bought my domain name it was £360 a year! - .co.uk are now under a fiver)
ETA - Easily will sell you some webspace too... but I think mac will be cheaper.
www.SteveCarter.com
ETA - Easily will sell you some webspace too... but I think mac will be cheaper.
www.SteveCarter.com
Edited by GetCarter on Monday 31st August 09:22
GetCarter said:
I'd get a bit of mac space , buy a cheap URL from somone like www.easily.co.uk and then point the URL at the webspace. If you want a dedicated e mail address, you can buy that at the same time from easily (ie woza@woza.com). It aint expensive any more (When I bought my domain name it was £360 a year! - .co.uk are now under a fiver)
ETA - Easily will sell you some webspace too... but I think mac will be cheaper.
www.SteveCarter.com
When you say get the mac space I assume you are referring ot the web.me.com site, had a look this morning and 20gb of space costs £59 a year....ETA - Easily will sell you some webspace too... but I think mac will be cheaper.
www.SteveCarter.com
Edited by GetCarter on Monday 31st August 09:22
EINSIGN said:
Have had a quick look at this site, is it completely free? Don't understand how they can offer unlimited storage for nout!Woza said:
GetCarter said:
I'd get a bit of mac space , buy a cheap URL from somone like www.easily.co.uk and then point the URL at the webspace. If you want a dedicated e mail address, you can buy that at the same time from easily (ie woza@woza.com). It aint expensive any more (When I bought my domain name it was £360 a year! - .co.uk are now under a fiver)
ETA - Easily will sell you some webspace too... but I think mac will be cheaper.
www.SteveCarter.com
When you say get the mac space I assume you are referring ot the web.me.com site, had a look this morning and 20gb of space costs £59 a year....ETA - Easily will sell you some webspace too... but I think mac will be cheaper.
www.SteveCarter.com
Edited by GetCarter on Monday 31st August 09:22
Check out: http://easily.co.uk/whataremyoptions.php#websitecr...
Scott330ci said:
Scott, really like your layout.This is exactly what im looking to do!
Clickpic says you can only have 100 images though if you have the £35 tariff, is there a way around this?
Woza.
Woza said:
Scott330ci said:
Scott, really like your layout.This is exactly what im looking to do!
Clickpic says you can only have 100 images though if you have the £35 tariff, is there a way around this?
Woza.
I am afraid not. You upload the images into a directory so the number is capped.
Or Photium; here's mine.
Again, because it's template-based, sites have a similar look and feel. A whole load of new templates added recently though. I've been very pleased with the facilities and the support.
Ed ...
Again, because it's template-based, sites have a similar look and feel. A whole load of new templates added recently though. I've been very pleased with the facilities and the support.
Ed ...
It's a start http://woza.photium.com
the 30 day free trial was a bonus!
Just need to work out rgb colour coding etc so i can make the template a little more personal!
the 30 day free trial was a bonus!
Just need to work out rgb colour coding etc so i can make the template a little more personal!
Woza said:
Just need to work out rgb colour coding etc so i can make the template a little more personal!
Yes, it's all a little daunting at first, but gets more "logical" with use. Initially, I just looked for a suitable colour on one of the "base" templates and then copied the rgb code into mine. Good luck with it ...Woza said:
EINSIGN said:
Have had a quick look at this site, is it completely free? Don't understand how they can offer unlimited storage for nout!ETA I've got 2 Zenfolio sites if you want to see what it looks like and the different ways you can set up your galleries:
http://omohat.zenfolio.com
http://nomohat.zenfolio.com
Edited by omohat on Monday 31st August 14:29
I've just recently sorted out some new webspace for myself.
In the end went with GoDaddy. Godaddy
I've opted to go with their deluxe plan - 150Gb of storage and 1500Gb/month worth of transfer. All for about £50 which I thought was a bloody good deal.
Awaits someone to point out that I'm getting over charged.
In the end went with GoDaddy. Godaddy
I've opted to go with their deluxe plan - 150Gb of storage and 1500Gb/month worth of transfer. All for about £50 which I thought was a bloody good deal.
Awaits someone to point out that I'm getting over charged.

I went with 3ix as I don't need anything flash/fancy or massive in terms of bandwidth or webspace. I get 40Gb of space and 100Gb of bandwidth for £8.50 a year. I just wanted something cheap to set my site up on. Been OK and stable so far. Their cheapest unlimited Bandwidth package comes in at £2/month.
I use Jalbum (for my galleries) which scales the size of my images right down, helping preserve my limited space.
I bought my name from heartinternet.co.uk for about £6 for 2 years.
Took a free template from the net (to keep costs down) and customized to my liking.
Does me fine for now.
Scott
I use Jalbum (for my galleries) which scales the size of my images right down, helping preserve my limited space.
I bought my name from heartinternet.co.uk for about £6 for 2 years.
Took a free template from the net (to keep costs down) and customized to my liking.
Does me fine for now.
Scott
kybo said:
I went with 3ix as I don't need anything flash/fancy or massive in terms of bandwidth or webspace. I get 40Gb of space and 100Gb of bandwidth for £8.50 a year. I just wanted something cheap to set my site up on. Been OK and stable so far. Their cheapest unlimited Bandwidth package comes in at £2/month.
I use Jalbum (for my galleries) which scales the size of my images right down, helping preserve my limited space.
I bought my name from heartinternet.co.uk for about £6 for 2 years.
Took a free template from the net (to keep costs down) and customized to my liking.
Does me fine for now.
Scott
can we see your site kybo?I use Jalbum (for my galleries) which scales the size of my images right down, helping preserve my limited space.
I bought my name from heartinternet.co.uk for about £6 for 2 years.
Took a free template from the net (to keep costs down) and customized to my liking.
Does me fine for now.
Scott
omohat said:
Woza said:
EINSIGN said:
Have had a quick look at this site, is it completely free? Don't understand how they can offer unlimited storage for nout!ETA I've got 2 Zenfolio sites if you want to see what it looks like and the different ways you can set up your galleries:
http://omohat.zenfolio.com
http://nomohat.zenfolio.com
Edited by omohat on Monday 31st August 14:29
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