Website Domain, Hosting and Creation

[lord-of-creation]

Working a few weeks for an engineering company and one of the things they want is for a website to be developed. It only needs to be something basic i.e an about us page, further details on the type of work they provide and sectors, some photos, contact page...that sort of thing

Now I'm as clueless with web design as the owners are. We almost went with reg-123 today which would have been £80 a year for a .com domain, hosting and using their website design tool. However, I then read a lot of bad reviews about them. Then when searching for others, I couldn't find any that didn't have some seriously negative reviews.

Can anybody recommend what we need and which company/companies we should use?

Thanks

[petemurphy]

guy on here owns register1 that loads use and is good

personally i use heart internet very easy to use and good price

[grumbas]

Any online web development tool is going to generate an awful site - possibly worse than not having one at all!

Find a local developer to put something together for you, quotes will vary but based on your spec you should be able to get something decent for £5-750 I'd guess.

As for hosting, you'll have to go some to beat register1 - great service and pricing on domains/hosting is amongst the best.

[jas xjr]

A chap that I know. Lee at netinspire.co.uk , down to earth and no Bs. He has some good work behind him.
From one man bands to corporate work.
Tell him I sent you , jas

[10JH]

An easy and professional looking design tool is squarespace.

Haven't used it myself, but looking into it. Sites built with it don't look they come from a template.

For hosting, it's the usual PH answer - Register1!

[lord-of-creation]

10JH said:

An easy and professional looking design tool is squarespace.

Haven't used it myself, but looking into it. Sites built with it don't look they come from a template.

For hosting, it's the usual PH answer - Register1!

The squarespace website talks about hosting, do they host your created website? Or would I still need to sign up to something like register1 to host the website?

[-DeaDLocK-]

With squarespace, no need for Register1. Everything is done in-house within SS.