New Website Help

[zimrahil]

Need some advice please !

My nephew wants to start up his own website and forum (I think this is for practise as he wants to be a web designer when he leaves school) so can anybody advise on the following

-whats the easiest (or best ) way of getting web space (for free initially if possible?)
-what the easiest/most friendly software to use to set up a forum. He doesn't really want the forum to be used by anybody, he just wants to get experience in how to set one up etc

Member with best response gets promoted to staff.............erm or something


no seriously any pointers in the right direction will be much appreciated

thanks
zim

 

[BigCrickNan]

Free web hosting: www.5gigs.com - Not spectacular, but it's great for free.

Free forum software: http://www.xmbforum.com/ Free and easy to use, it just depends wheter he knows how to upload and make the database and stuff.

 

[blackleopard92]

we have given preety much all free hosting sites in the thread below

http://www.planetcricket.org/forums/showthread.php?t=20489

 

[Prakash]

The best way would be to look at the hosting offers at www.freewebhostingtalk.com or just request there. While the easiest way would be to add Ste to his msn and keep on asking about hosting
As for the forum I would recommend www.phpbb.com

 

[Brett_Lee]

Need some advice please !

My nephew wants to start up his own website and forum (I think this is for practise as he wants to be a web designer when he leaves school) so can anybody advise on the following

-whats the easiest (or best ) way of getting web space (for free initially if possible?)
-what the easiest/most friendly software to use to set up a forum. He doesn't really want the forum to be used by anybody, he just wants to get experience in how to set one up etc

Member with best response gets promoted to staff.............erm or something


no seriously any pointers in the right direction will be much appreciated

thanks
zim

Easiest way is to go to a directory www.freewebspace.net/forums find the right one for you

For Free i would go either
http://www.phpbb.com
http://www.mybboard.com (i prefer this one cause its very similar to vbulletin in the way it works)

mybb is very easy to install.

If he wants a program use dreamweaver

 

[sid_19840]

Why not just register and start a Invisionfree forum?,it wont need any webspace or ftp uploading,all it needs is registering and starting a forum.Its a reasonably good forum software as well.

EDIT:If it seems too easy and too little to learn then Id recommend phpbb as a forum software.

 

[Brett_Lee]

Why not just register and start a Invisionfree forum?,it wont need any webspace or ftp uploading,all it needs is registering and starting a forum.Its a reasonably good forum software as well.

EDIT:If it seems too easy and too little to learn then Id recommend phpbb as a forum software.

even though u said edit il just say he needed the experience

 

[sohum]

How old is he/does he have any experience in making websites?

 

[zimrahil]

Thanks for everybodies replies

He is 14 and has no experience of building websites, so something simpler to start off with the better

Well I have loads to go on here, so I will go and discuss it with him


Thanks all again

 

[sohum]

If he wants to go into web-design as a prospective future career, he'd probably be better off learning the basics--such as the languages. It's actually not that hard to pick up when you're young--I picked up HTML when I was about 8-10 years old. Of course, HTML is slightly outdated for today, so he'd best concentrate on CSS/XHTML. Once he gets some experience actually manouevering the page as he likes, he can delve into databases/PHP/etc. for scripting (probably slightly down the line--although I don't know how smart kids these days get, ).

So, I think, he probably doesn't need about 5 gigs of space. When I first started out web-design, I did it on local files on my computer. While you can't do any dynamic stuff with that, what you can do is download software such as Netserver, which sets up a web server (Apache) on your computer, and you can pretty much use it like a real webserver. The only downside, of course, would be that it wouldn't be publicly accessible. However, it seems like he just wants to tinker with it, so that shouldn't be too much of a problem.

Netserver also has the options to install MySQL and PHP, so he would also be able to get hands-on experience of installing large scripts onto a webserver and such.

 

[Skater]

Well I'm 13, have no ambition of taking web design further, and am the manager of The Cricket Project's official site! I would recommend to him to get a nice host like Byethost with a Cpanel and learn how to upload a few things with FTP. That way everything will be easy to him when/if he goes into the pro scene.

 

[sohum]

Come now, but learning how to learn FTP gives you no semblance of how to develop websites. Also, cPanel is fast being phased out by other (lesser) alternatives. And besides, none of them pertain directly to web-design as such.

 

[BigCrickNan]

Ok.. it looks like more links were a bit too advanced .

Easier hosting: www.freewebs.com

HTML/PHP/Javascript etc.: www.htmlgoodies.com