Bestest cheapest webhost? & General website building woe...

[Sol]

Hi guyz

I've got to put up an online portfolio for my degree, which requires us to buy our own hosting, can anyone recommend anyone? Also, I have absolutely no idea how you upload a site... I've pretty much built it, i've got a domain name, it just needs content added and I guess some actionscript wizardry to link the (stupidly required) flash splash screen to the main site made in dreamweaver.


Someone hold my hand please, I need an adult.

[edit]

For those interested this is what it looks like at the moment...Made in illustrator/potatoshop/dreamweaver with html, css and a tiny bit of jquery to get the movie rotator thing.



It's also twice as big as that picture

[friznit]

Dreamhost is very popular, reasonably priced ($10 US per month), mostly stable and you can host your domain there as well for not very much if you want (though you don't have to). It's also piss easy to use and has lots of good guides and easy one button click stuff if you don't know what you're doing. Support is also pretty good.

[Grimmie]

I've got to put up an online portfolio for my degree, which requires us to buy our own hosting, can anyone recommend anyone? Also, I have absolutely no idea how you upload a site... I've pretty much built it, i've got a domain name, it just needs content added and I guess some actionscript wizardry to link the (stupidly required) flash splash screen to the main site made in dreamweaver.

I use 4uHosting - http://www.4uhosting.co.uk/hosting.php Their 3 month basic plan is £8, which is pretty darn cheap. Should do for a folio site.

All you need to do once you have your hosting is point your domain name to it (there should be a control panel or similar that came with it when you signed up).

Your hosting will come with FTP details, which you can just feed in to dreamweaver, if that's what you're using.
Should just be a simple case of uploading stuff to the public facing folder on your host server (usually /public_html/ or similar).

If you have any issues, prod me

[buzzmong]

I think Prof does hosting doesn't he?

[ProfHawking]

Yep, sure do Shameless Plug

I'm not an actionscript wizz, but the rest sounds like a simple site. Can def sort out some 5punk-freebee hosting for that no problemo - Pop me a PM if you want me to set up an account for you Sol.

[TezzRexx]

123-reg is super cheap at £2.50 per month for the basic package, which I imagine would suit just fine.

http://www.123-reg.co.uk/web-hosting/

[TezzRexx]

Also, TNA lol?

/wrestlefag

[buzzmong]

Also, I really like that Art Deco theme Sol.

Still using the Bioshock Brews as inspiration?

[FatherJack]

I think there are a bunch of places you can get free CMS hosting, which might be worth a look. Tumblr and Wordpress are essentially Content Management Systems geared towards blogs, but there are others which offer even more customisation. The downside would be you have to use their CMS tools rather than create your own HTML, but they're usually pretty easy to use and more representative of the technology used in modern websites - where the content is mostly just plain text and you 'skin' it with a design of your own.

If your expected usage is light you could probably be accommodated on 5punk or my Dreamhost hosting, with CMS tools if you wanted them, you'd probably want to bring your own domain name, though.

[Joose]

Also, TNA lol?

/wrestlefag

Heh, my first thought was this: TNA UK

/lives with a doctor

[Sol]

Cheers for the help peeps, it's greatly appreciated! I might take you up on that offer prof, at least until I graduate and have a real job™ in september time. I got the flash working in the end... It turned out the geturl command I was using was only compatible with actionscript 2, not 3...

Anyway, the site should be very simple with vids and blag farmed out to vimeo and tumblr. I'll drop you a pm!

And yeah a mate pointed out the wrestling thing haha, I had no idea.

[TezzRexx]

Also, TNA lol?

/wrestlefag

Heh, my first thought was this: TNA UK

/lives with a doctor

Doing a somewhat not-quite-dead, cast-resurrect on this thread;

Can anyone recommend me a cheap hosting that supports ASP.net version 3.5?

[FatherJack]

Also, TNA lol?

/wrestlefag

Heh, my first thought was this: TNA UK

/lives with a doctor

Doing a somewhat not-quite-dead, cast-resurrect on this thread;

Can anyone recommend me a cheap hosting that supports ASP.net version 3.5?

Anything with IIS7 or later has it as an installable option, and it can be added as an extension to 2.0 on IIS6. Most places will be using Win2008R2, which has IIS7.5, such as these:
http://www.aspnethosting.co.uk/
http://www.hostinguk.net/
http://www.discountasp.net/
Never used them, so can't say what they're like, I have used the following and they're ok (not great) but cost more:
http://www.eukhost.com/windows-web-hosting.php
http://www.webfusion.co.uk/web-hosting/
http://www.ukfast.co.uk/web-hosting-server.html

[ProfHawking]

Can sort a windows hosting account if you want, supports ASP.net v2.0, v3.5 & v4.0

I'm more of a PHP nerd than ASP geek but you are welcome to have a play with a test account and see if it does what you need?

[TezzRexx]

Ta guise. Yeah Prof, if you could sort me out a testy server, that would be awesome :D

[Sol]

With great support from Prof I have my site LIVE

And as complete as I can be bothered to do: http://www.tunednoise.com

Irritating flash splash screen will be ripped out once it's been marked. Whatcha thinks?

[Grimmie]

*Straight in to source code view*

*Gawk*

Argh splash screen! Put a skip button in!
Get thine CSS off in to its own file!
Don't use <br />'s to space things out!

*Deep breaths*

It looks very pretty though. I like :D

[FatherJack]

Irritating flash splash screen will be ripped out once it's been marked. Whatcha thinks?

Should the Film, Media, Animation, TV titles be links? They kind of look like they should be.

[Sol]

Yeah they were going to be... but then i couldn't be bothered implementing them!

And yes the code was put together with twigs, newpaper cuttings and masking tape. And YOU MAY NEVER SKIP. I never said I was any good at web design Cheers though.

[Thompy]

Could you get a loading bar onto the splash screen or reduce the file size a smidgen? It struggled to play once it got half way through on my 2Mbit line. 2.5Mbit would probably be fine

Personally overflow:srcoll makes me shudder, but it does a job. Looks clean though