My wife is pondering a web page and is looking at google sites cuz it is free, but also has an upgrade to pay/premium, and it's google, and looks easy to use.
Has anyone used it? Is it decent?
Or does anyone have better recommendations?
Easy and low-maintenance and simple upload of photos are the main things.
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the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
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A friend of mine has a website hosted for free on Weebley.com. He has found it good, but it's more a brochure website with low traffic. I don't know how well it would do with more interaction and higher traffic. There are upgrades that you can pay for.
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Tho' all the maps of blood and flesh
Are posted on the door,
There's no one who has told us yet
What Boogie Street is for.
Are posted on the door,
There's no one who has told us yet
What Boogie Street is for.
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What it really is [at least to start with] is a guide/brochure with photos of some of the stuff she has in galleries and shops, and maps/links to their pages, and some bio and announcements and such. For now, [maybe never] she won't be selling directly or taking orders from her page.Menolly wrote:Does she want a site that is mostly a blog?
Or an interactive forum similar to the Watch?
Heh...in a way, it's kinda like SRD's place without the G.I. [at least that seems like what she's saying she wants it to be]
[spoiler]Sig-man, Libtard, Stupid piece of shit. change your text color to brown. Mr. Reliable, bullshit-slinging liarFucker-user.[/spoiler]
the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
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If she would like to have something similar to the Watch in layout, where she can create forums and sub-forums for different topics, have her check out forumer. She'll need to know BBCode to take full advantage, but the sites are free.
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Nah, she doesn't want a forum.
She wants an informational site.
Start with a Google site by all means. They should be "sympathetic" toward it, and it should be fairly easy.
Get all those galleries and shops that she links to, to link back to her as well.
If necessary, she can always register a unique domain later, although those links would need to be modified if she does.
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She wants an informational site.
Start with a Google site by all means. They should be "sympathetic" toward it, and it should be fairly easy.
Get all those galleries and shops that she links to, to link back to her as well.
If necessary, she can always register a unique domain later, although those links would need to be modified if she does.
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Yes, I also think Google is a fairly good idea, though, alas, without personal experience with it, and the services I used look not fitting for this purpose. It does have downsides, like 100 Mb of space, though that may be enough for many purposes, as for the domain name, other free ones are hardly better.
There's a completely different possibility - to use one of the hosting services with ftp access, one of those living on selling premium services or ads, and set up everything from scratch with anything that looks likeable, but that may require unnecessary effort and any problems with the site will be the site creator's problems.
So, for what you describe Google looks pretty good, at least to start. May make a new one elsewhere later, if such a wish appears)
There's a completely different possibility - to use one of the hosting services with ftp access, one of those living on selling premium services or ads, and set up everything from scratch with anything that looks likeable, but that may require unnecessary effort and any problems with the site will be the site creator's problems.
So, for what you describe Google looks pretty good, at least to start. May make a new one elsewhere later, if such a wish appears)
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If you're gonna do that, might as well just buy a domain and pay for hosting...pretty sure you can get it cheap...domain for $10 a year and hosting for $5 a month or something. Use a wordpress template for the site.Effaeldm wrote: There's a completely different possibility - to use one of the hosting services with ftp access, one of those living on selling premium services or ads, and set up everything from scratch with anything that looks likeable, but that may require unnecessary effort and any problems with the site will be the site creator's problems.
Might be harder to optimise than a purpose built one, but if it's not meant to drive sales, not much problem. And no adverts. (Unless you let Google pay you to put them there.)
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