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  Setting up a website can be easy and extremely cheap, if not free, (when you know how). Try following these instructions or get someone to help you. (I am assuming you have an Internet connection to start with to have got this far.)

Obviously there is more to it than this, but I wish I had had a tip like this to start out with.
Get a book such as "HTML in a Weekend" to get you up and running.

  1. Go to Supanet.Com web site.
  2. Go to the SIGNUP section on the left hand side. Follow instructions to create a new account.
  3. This will also create a new e-mail address but Supanet will also give you some free web space - which is what we are after. Choose a user name which will look good in an e-mail address, to look something like yoursite@supanet.com
  4. The website which Supanet will provide has the address like http://www.yoursite.supanet.com
  5. Supanet will talk you through creating your first web-page actually on this site. Alternatively you can create the web-page on your own computer and upload it using FTP (File Transfer Protocol). I use WS FTP which is free and can be downloaded as a ZIP file from WS FTP
  6. Unzip WSFTP into a new folder and run the executable file contained - you will then need to enter the username and password Supanet has given you, and indicate the directory containing your web page.
Like all computer instructions this may seem strange, but it does actually work!

Your first web page need only say "Hello World!" but once this is done it is half the battle. I usually write html mostly "by hand" - in the specialised (freeware) html/text editor "MatrixY2K" - which also gives you a lot of help.

The simple text for this file is:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE> Hello World! </TITLE></HEAD>
<BODY>
Hello World!
</BODY>
</HTML>

and the file should be called INDEX.HTM

OK, with a bit of guidance this should work and you should be able to access your Hello World file at http://www.yoursite.supanet.com

Please note that if you create a web page on Supanet.Com then you can only upload to that page if you have a Supanet account. You can create this free by going to the Supanet web site, but many other ISPs provide free web space and the same principles apply.

A further step is to create a URL (Unique Resource Locator) which looks like a proper web address such as "www.yoursite.org.uk". To do this you can register at 123-reg.co.uk and again follow the instructions for "web forwarding" to your Supanet web space. Selecting and assigning a URL costs under £10.

Once you've got the hang of it then develop your skills with Microsoft FrontPage, etc, or find a web-site designer - but it helps to get the mysticism out of the way first!

As a final tip - some graphic and photo-management programmes will create web pages wholesale from your graphics library. ACDSee is probably the neatest and has been used for the photo libraries on this site (early versions of ACDSee appear free on cover disks from time to time). Use WS FTP to transfer these pages to your newly created site. Core FTP is also highly recommended and free.

Contact

Two more providers of free e-mail and free webspace:

  • Freeola
  • Tesco

    And three collections of free providers:

  • 100 Best
  • No Pay
  • More free stuff

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