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Arlyn Stewart
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Initially Posted - 12/28/2005 : 08:37:23

With winter grip shutting down sailing for much of the country, one alternative project might be a web site.

Many if not most internet providers provide space as a part of provider access, so this is one of those rare instances where no additional money is needed. The single requirement is a tool to do the creation... and some very good tools are free.

I use Mozilla which is a compeditor browser to MS Internet Explorer but it has more power including a built in editor publisher, which is quite easy to use, albeit fairly basic. It is available simply by searching for Mozilla. Mozilla does not require being designated the primary browser.

The same creator of the browser within Mozilla also has a much better version as a standalone called Nvu, which comes very close to the capabilities of editors, composers, publishers that cost bucks. Nvu is a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) type editor. This simply means, no html coding required, all that is needed is typing text and laying on pics and drawings.

Yesterday I ran accross what seems to be a really great easy to read tutorial that offers step by step instructions for the beginner to creat a web site.

So, if thought has been given to creating a page to share your sailing ... maybe this will help. [url="http://www.thesitewizard.com/gettingstarted/nvu1.shtml"]Easy Tutorial for Creating a Web Site[/url]

Arlyn C-250 W/B #224

N/E Texas and Great Lakes
Arlyn's Sailing Site

Edited by - Arlyn Stewart on 12/28/2005 08:39:42

Leon Sisson
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Response Posted - 12/28/2005 : 09:42:15

Thanks Arlyn, that's a good suggestion. Guys, learning to take advantage of your ISP's free Website disk space would also give you a convenient place to put your photos which you wish to include in, or reverence from, your posts here.

Netscape Communicator 7.2 is another free, easy to use, reasonably powerful WYSIWYG web page editor which generates reasonably compact HTML.

I recommend against Microsoft FrontPage after having taken a course in using it.

-- Leon Sisson

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Tom Potter
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Response Posted - 12/28/2005 : 16:21:52

Arlyn,
Good article, wish I would have read it BEFORE I got started with my site. I just fumbled along learning as I went. The biggest thing that bothers me is my address http://webpages.charter.net/potterhouse/my%20web/
I've been reading how to get a domain name that is short and easy to remember and finding a site that will redirect it to my free host. Have you or anyone had any experience with this. I thought about starting over with another name on my free host but I have about 900 hits and don't want to change the name now.

Edited by - Tom Potter on 12/28/2005 16:39:49

atgep
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Response Posted - 12/28/2005 : 18:13:42

Godaddy.com offers cheap domain names and had the best super-bowl ad last year IMHO.

Tom.

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Tom Potter
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Response Posted - 12/29/2005 : 16:43:23

Thanks Tom, I figured out how to resolve my web address problem, I bought the "Nottycat" domain at go daddy.com and had my domain re directed to my free host. I'm learning this stuff.

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PamC
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Response Posted - 01/01/2006 : 12:10:04

I use go daddy too. I was too lazy to figure out how to take advantage of the free stuff though. I signed up for the Web Site Tonight service which is a hosting & builder bundle. www.chapsail.com is the second site I've done through them and I didn't want to use any of my brain capacity to learn anything else as I'm already running on a deficit with all I'm learning about sailing. Regardless, I spent a lot of time learning the builder software and found a few things I would do different. But there's always time for that when the boat projects are done and tax season is over. Wait - I'll be sailing then! Only 106 days til April 17th!

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