Friday, June 7, 2013

Website Hosting with Custom Domain for Less Than $1 per Month

Problem:

As mentioned in my other article, you can host your website completely free with Dropbox, Google Sites, or Blogger. But the problem with doing things this way is that your URL can be so hard for friends, clients, or even yourself to read or remember that it's basically useless.

Solution:

You can get your own website at your own Domain hosted online all for about $1 per month if you choose the right domain name. To do this, you can get a free blog with blogger, edit the blogger XML template file (this article will be written shortly), and then purchase a domain for about $10 per year.

This will get you a single-page website at your own domain. The downside is that for a multiple-page website, you will have to jump through hoops to make it work. But this single-page-site solution is great for beginners who are learning HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

If you are teaching yourself web design or web development, or if you are a teacher or professor with your own class full of students, this method could be a great low cost option.

Thursday, June 6, 2013

Free Website and Free Hosting, Honestly

Problem:

There are many offers online for "free" websites. But really, they'll charge you monthly for hosting or charge you for a domain. I guess it's not really free then, is it?

Solutions:

I know of several ways to get a free website that is also live on the internet, hosted for free. I will show you three of these methods in this article. There is no catch, no money involved, no nothing except for a free website and a free host. You might not get your own domain for free using these methods but in another article I show you how get your own website, domain, and hosting for less than $1 per month.