Some questions on starting my own website

[Chiefish]

I am wondering what I need to do to start my own website, and as I have never attempted to actually run my own site before I am virtually clueless about what I need to do to get started. I would guess that I need to run the name I have in mind and see if its already being used, Then Get it registered as mine? Lets say I use somthing like Godaddy and the name I have in mind is available, do I just register it and purchase a Hosting package ? Then all the software and stuff I need to actually build it is included. Do I build it on my personal machine and upload it to the hosting services via FTP or something?
I have seen many of you guys and gals here have youre own up and running and thats what is inspiring me to do this as I seem to collect some chips that noone else really does and think I can add somthing to the community by showing them. Remeber this is webhosting for DUMMIES here , so try and be simple in the things you throw at me until I get grip on what I am doing. Thanks in advance

[Mixeur]

This exactly how you say : Buy a web hosting. Buy a domain name. Set the name in the web hosting admin interface. Make the site on your pc. Upload it using ftp according to server adress given by web hosting or ftp.domain_name.com.
This is the general way. Detailled way will much depend on the web hosting company and domain registrar. Sometime both can be the same. In this case this is simple.

Anyway, good luck.

You can also try to add cpus on chiefish.x86-guide.com. It is far easier but less personal, even if you can choose a theme (and maybe create one in the future), and upload the logo/title image you want.

[Chiefish]

I have looked around on youre site, and to be honest I dont really have any x86 chips that are not already on there. Most of what I have are Bit Slice, eprom, prom, ram, rom, microcontroller, and peripherals. So I think for me to ask you to create new catagories for all this would be unreasonable . Most of what I have is pre X86 and is not really in theme with the X86 guide. But thanks on the advise and keep it coming.

[Mixeur]

all categories already exists, like ram, rom, mcu, ...etc, but it is not yet publicly visible because not enough complete.
Honestly, I would need someone to enter stuff in it

[Cpuswe]

Many of the webhosters offers a bunch of "standard" php scripts in their package. When i signed up to my first hoster they offered around 30 various open source php scripts. 4-5 of them where CMS (content management system) to build a home page on, Joomla, Drupal, PHP Nuke and a few more. These are installable without any knowledge in php or Mysql with a simple wizard. Like cpucollection.se which are created with the php script for image album "4images Gallery". The site was up and running in 5 minutes. No hacking with HTML, no FTP:ing, no PHP just running a three page wizard and you are good to go! Creating categories and uploading images is still your job.

The autoinstaller package used by my first host was something called Fantastico Check the list of software here http://cpanel-host.com/fantastico/

Edit after some thinking: So if you want it simple, this is a way. Doing it yourself is perhaps much more rewarding but requires a bit more time and some reading. But instead you can say, "i did aaaaall this myself".

[JAC]

1) register name with a registrar ( not with the company you want to buy web hosting with)

2) find a company that offers web hosting, buy a package

3) learn how to use FTP ( use google)

4) install something like wordpress, it can be run as a CMS and/or Blog. Wordpress has a HUGE user base, so lots of help and tips. Joomla, Drupal etc are all good too...


A lot of reading certainly.. but dont expect to "get this" overnight.. it will take time, and soon you will have everything up and running.

Failing that.. I suspect there is a website book for dummies. I am not a fan of the dummies guides, but many people seem to like them. Waste of money if you ask me.. they take content that is readily available on the web and stick it in a book.

[Chiefish]

Thanks you guys, I am very familiar with doing FTP as I used to run a big FTP server from my home. But that was long before the RIAA would come busting down youre doors for trading a few songs and games with my friends. I was just kidding about the Websites for Dummies stuff as I can figure most stuff out without too much hassle

Jac if I used Godaddy for both registering a name and hosting some web space , why would that be a bad thing? It also looks like they can supply me with everything Ill need to get started, I dont know how good the software is but I would assume it would be pretty easy to use and get set up and running. And I would expect to make a few mistakes at first as thats the only real way to learn how to do somthing good.

I also see the choice for running linux or windows for the site, what difference would that make? I am more familiar with windows but if there is a significant difference in performance or security I would consider using linux to do it.

[JAC]

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