[Leica] Website Questions

[Nathan Wajsman]

Hi Bill,

I use a variety of solutions. The easiest way to get started is to use Smugmug. It has tools to create your galleries, you can start uploading as soon as you have signed up. Unlimited space too. This is how my greatpix.eu site works. The domain is my own, it simply points to Smugmug. I pay 12 Euro/year for the domain. But Smugmug is the most expensive of my web sites, I pay $150 a year.

My second web site, frozenlight.eu, is hosted on a service in the Netherlands. That one is strictly “roll your own”. I create the content locally, using Freeway Express, and upload it to the web site via ftp. The total cost of that web site is less than 30 Euro per year.

The website I use for my weekly blog, fotocycle.dk, is hosted by a provider in Denmark and runs using Wordpress. In terms of ease of use, it is somewhere in-between the two sites I mention above.

If you are completely new to all this, I recommend either trying Smugmug or going to one of the major web hosting companies (godaddy is the biggest in the world). Besides selling you the space and the domain, they will usually also have tools that make it easy to start building your site.

Cheers,
Nathan

Nathan Wajsman
Alicante, Spain
http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/>
http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu
PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws <http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ <http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/>
Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator <http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator>
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> On 03 Jun 2016, at 03:20, W.C. Clough <billclough042541 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> USA
> TEXAS
> VICTORIA
> 02 June 2016
> 
> Hi there—
> 
>  I would like to create my own website.  I'm new to this, so I have a lot of questions.
> 
>   For those of you who have your own website:
> 
>   1. Did you use a company to create the site or did you do it yourself with using a template such as Wordpress and then choose a host?
> 
>  2. Can you recommend any website company you feel offers the best templates/security/ongoing pricing?
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>   3. Did you have your own domain name or did the company help you obtain one.
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>   4. What are the pitfalls in using such a company?
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>   5. What are the costs?
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>   Feel free to reply on the LUG or contact me privately at billclough042541 at gmail.com <mailto:billclough042541 at gmail.com>
> 
> Thanks in advance—
> 
> —Bill
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