Questions about Web Design

That's the thing. I'm not sure she's still willing to help out.

To be honest, I wouldn't rely on friends. If one of your friends builds you a site, that means they'll have to go through them to update it if anything ever needs to change. The same goes for someone else building the site for you.

Do your homework and contact a couple of self building sites like wix (just an example) to see if they offer what you're looking for and just put it together yourself.


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I appreciate your opinion, but she's made a site for me before. They way she sets it up to update is very easy and I understand how to update it (and require no help from her or anyone else for that matter). I'm so incredibly picky about what I want my site to look like that no free site nor my own skill can get it to look and function how I want it to.

I have no previous experience building websites, or coding. I chose Go Daddy and use Word Press. It has worked great for me with very little effort and there are plenty of templates and plug ins to choose from to make your site look the way you want it. I use the zeeNoble theme and I like the sliding header option on the front page. There are hundreds of themes to choose from and with a little coding you can do what you desire.

My next task is to do exactly what you want..... a filter for morphs and sex. It is a nice feature, but with the amount of clutches I will have I do not think it is necessary at this point.

I recommend JustHost.com with their 3-year $120 plan, it equates to about $3.30 a month. You can definitely create an easy to use website using wordpress (it's what I use) that enables you to do all sorts of things. If you want to see an example of a wordpress site, just visit my homepage in my profile.

Web domains cost around $10 a year, usually much less, so they aren't exactly expensive at all. If you need any help, I can assist you in setting things up.

You also do not need any dedicated server as that's overkill for a simple website.

I always recommend Go Daddy, less than $5 a month for unlimited bandwidth and 100gb of space (which is more then enough for your needs), ability to use wordpress which once you chose a template or create one would allow you to easily update and post blogs on your own without any help, and last but not least great customer service.

I have used various host over the years and what make the difference is the customer service.

Honestly for your domain, you can get cheaper than godaddy.com, but they have good support. Other companies have people who barely speak English try to help you and it's really really frustrating. So for your domain, definitely stick with them.

As far as hosting goes, I've always used scopehosts.com. They're cheap and they don't require you to stay a 6 month or year agreement. Also most web hosting companies offer you a cheap price, but what they don't tell you is that it's only an introduction price and once you have to renew your price goes up to the real price which can be a significant difference than what you thought. So that's another reason I've always stuck with scopehosts because the price you pay is the price you pay. They're not based in the US at least I don't think they are, or they weren't in the past as I don't currently have any sites. Their tech support is very good and you can catch them on with our hours once you learn the difference with the time thing.

http://www.scopehosts.com/shared-hosting.html

I use FatCow. They have a drag and drop website builder that is super easy to use. You literally drag and drop whatever, wherever and publish! Done!