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Frank Kobilsek

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I would like to create a website to show my turnings, maybe sell some items. Is there a company or a service provided by AAW where a template to make this easy? If someone has had good experience with this I would love to here about it. I suspect I could just ask one of my nieces of nephews to create something for me but it's probably be better to learn on my own.

Frank
 
i too am a little interested in getting a website. not yet, but within a few years when i have more of a collection and better marketing strategy. Don't get me wrong, i dont turn for the cash, (i love blowing sawdust outta my nose every morning!), but i need to make some cash to pay for ne toys! then again dont we all??
 
There are 2 main processes to making a website.
  1. You need to build the webpages. You can do this yourself. There are products which can help. I rebuilt this site using Dreamweaver, but that is for more advanced work. You can build the pages by hand. Or you can get a company to do it.
  2. You have to get the website hosted. The best way is to find a cheap hosting company. Places like Yahoo will do personal websites for $10/month. You get what you pay for. If it is your website then you would be the one to pay for the monthly or yearly fee.

This website has been hosted at the same company in North Carolina for about 10 years. They have good service, but they are mostly for businesses. Their prices aren't targeted for individuals.
 
Shop around, there's a wide variety of prices from very cheap with no support to quite expensive with full support and ability to handle LOTS of visitors in one day. As Jeff mentioned, you get what you pay for but you don't need much when starting out and it's easy to spend more than you need.
For a personal site, to begin with, you don't need 100% reliability, more than 20 megabytes of space, or high bandwidth allotment (the ability to serve a large amount of visitors looking at images, for example). You should be able to find a suitable hosting service for less than $50 per year. One place to check out is WebHostingTalk forums, where opinions and reviews of hosting companies are posted:
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1

You may also have a small amount of free space from your ISP, most of them offer something like 5 mb of space with an account.
 
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