Thread: creating a website

Jeeze, you smart buggas give me pain. I can't remember what HTML represents without concentrating for 10 minutes!
If computers are so clever, and computer languages so simple, why can I not simply type " I want a site named ...... for a local dining club!" and bingo (now there is something I remember) up it pops - all done - $5 please.

soth

5 bucks! Yeah, I've got clients like you. I want an all singing, all dancing site with online payments and newsletters and remote update whenever I feel like it. How much will it cost? @#$%!! I only budgeted $500 and I already spent half that on the domain name.

Originally Posted by silentC

Not the ones manufactured since 1977

Well that's funny because at work they've just set up a new computer room.

Rows and rows of black boxes as far as the eye can see.

I'm pretty sure they were all manufactured within the last coupe of years.

Ah yes, but is it one computer or lots of little ones?

When I was working on 3090's they were the size of about 4 fridges side by side. We had four of them (Dev 1, Dev 2, Prod 1 and Prod 2). The rest of the computer floor, which was the size of a football field, was taken up with DASD and modem racks etc. That was in 1990

I went in there one day a few years later and half the gear was gone but we still had the same 4 systems.

Unfortunately, my computer takes up about a third of my office space even today.

It's a 15" Mac notebook.

I'm thinking of getting a 12" one to give me some more space, or maybe I'll ask if I can move to a bigger office.

P

Lots and lots of "little" ones. They still take up a pretty good sized room though.

(I'll stop now).

Originally Posted by silentC

5 bucks! Yeah, I've got clients like you. I want an all singing, all dancing site with online payments and newsletters and remote update whenever I feel like it. How much will it cost? @#$%!! I only budgeted $500 and I already spent half that on the domain name.

But ............. you only spotted the $$$$$. What about the web site and how easy it's claimed to be.

soth

OK, I'll give you a serious answer. The reason why we don't have something like that is because end users have yet to come up with a clear idea of what they want. They need us IT geeks to tell them what they want. If there was any way of extracting the ruminations of your average user and converting them into a program or web site, I would hate to think of what it might look like and what horrible things it might do. I think it would be the end of the world as we know it

Catch 22, eh?
We don't know what we want so you can't write a program to answer the un-asked questiions.
The one time I had a work application created I drove the, er, 'geek' nuts with requests for unforeseen, small, immediate, alterations over six months.
Thanks.

soth

By the way: my world "as it was" ended just now!

requests for unforeseen, small, immediate, alterations over six months

I've got a client who has been doing that to me for 6 years!!

Still, it keeps me in beer and skittles.

Hi all

Just posting details of another option for creating a web page and having it hosted if required.
NB: I have no financial connection or benefit from this service provider

Keith S


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1.Your WEBSITE is built at no cost to you by professional designers, we do not use templates and all designs are unique to you and include the following, Home Page, About You Page, Products and Services Page, Contact Page (additional pages will attract a charge and will be quoted on if required), along with 5 email addresses using your own domain name.>>
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2.When all required information has been supplied to us we will create some designs for you to choose from and following consultation and any modification your WEBSITE will be created. >>
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3.Any additional services such as animation, film/DVD inclusions, e-commerce or Google advertising are not provided in your free WEBSITE and where requested will be charged at an agreed price.>>
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4.Following approval and sign off, your WEBSITE will be uploaded and appear on all the major search engines.>>
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WEBSITE REGISTRATION

All WEBSITES must have their domain name registered (this is to stop others using your name) and usually carry the extension of .com or .com.au and lasts for two years. Please note, that if you require .com.au in your web address you must have a registered business in that name.
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The costs of the two-year registration fee in Australia is as follows:
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·.COM $25.00
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·.COM.AU $45.00
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INTERNET HOSTING FEE>>
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Whether we or someone else creates your WEBSITE there is an annual hosting fee to reserve your space on the INTERNET and is charged either as a one off payment or periodically in advance. >>
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·If paying annually in advance $180.00 per annum>>
·@ $20.00 per month (in advance) $240.00 per annum>>
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Monthly payments will be charged by Direct Debit (credit card facility coming soon) and statements are issued to you for tax purposes. >>
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ADDITIONAL SERVICES>>
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·Maintenance of your WEBSITE – Whenever you require changes to your information, or need to list new products and services or change your details we charge $10.00 per 15 minute blocks. This works in your favor as most designers charge by the hour whether the change takes them 1 minute or 60 minutes to do, costing up to $120. If it takes us 15 minutes you pay $10 and so on.>>
·If requested we can design business cards and brochures to match your site, branding you completely- contact us for a quote>>
·Vinyl sign up to 75cm x 12.5cm one colour $ 45.00>>
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SUMMARY>>

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Construction of your WEBSITE: N/C
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Registration of Domain Name

• .com only $ 25.00

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• .com.au (registered business name required) $ 45.00

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Hosting Fees

• If paying annually in advance $180.00 per annum>>

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• @ $20.00 per month (in advance) $240.00 per annum

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Site Maintenance

Alteration/Modification to site including upload $ 10.00 per 15 minutes>>
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Mark Worsey>>
0407535892

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Please visit www.YTBNC.net to view some of the sites we have built.

I wish some geek would tell people not to use Office or Word so we dont end up with all them office tags.

Now thats a good idea.

Al

Originally Posted by ozwinner

I wish some geek would tell people not to use Office or Word so we dont end up with all them office tags.

Now thats a good idea.

Al

Don't remember! But I think you turn them off in "Options" somewhere up the top ^^^^. That way.

soth

Thanks guys. Also thanks Ray, i had a lok at a bit of HTML on frontpage and got lost in 5 mins without instructions. Ill look at that site and try to learn something. Might have to try it without a glass of wine