Basic Website, domain & email hosting help...
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Good Afternoon,
Looking to do the following as a favour for a friend:
- Purchase domain
- Build basic website. (Landing page with a few pics and contact details) Not great on code, so will need a basic template and builder.
- Host Email address on domain. Most probably forwarded to another address said friend uses..
What websites shall I use? Where should I purchase the domains? Can you recommend anywhere to host a basic site which is ad free and cheap?
I have used 123reg for managing my own personal domains (not running sites off them.)
I have used wix to create a couple basic sites and not had any issues with...
Would you recommend the above two options or suggest I look elsewhere?
Thanks in advance.
Looking to do the following as a favour for a friend:
- Purchase domain
- Build basic website. (Landing page with a few pics and contact details) Not great on code, so will need a basic template and builder.
- Host Email address on domain. Most probably forwarded to another address said friend uses..
What websites shall I use? Where should I purchase the domains? Can you recommend anywhere to host a basic site which is ad free and cheap?
I have used 123reg for managing my own personal domains (not running sites off them.)
I have used wix to create a couple basic sites and not had any issues with...
Would you recommend the above two options or suggest I look elsewhere?
Thanks in advance.
Dont use Wix, you will be stuck there forever.
Best way in my opinion is to buy the domain from 123reg, if you are used to that. Then get some Cpanel hosting, which will allow you to automate an install of Wordpress. Then use Wordpress to create the website. It's wizard based, including adding free themes, so should be fairly simple. Plus there is loads of documentation / youtube videos for such a popular platform.
The added bonus is, you are not limited to one provider. Its fairly easy to move it in the future if required.
Be sure to use the features to keep your wordpress install up to date.
hth
Andy
Best way in my opinion is to buy the domain from 123reg, if you are used to that. Then get some Cpanel hosting, which will allow you to automate an install of Wordpress. Then use Wordpress to create the website. It's wizard based, including adding free themes, so should be fairly simple. Plus there is loads of documentation / youtube videos for such a popular platform.
The added bonus is, you are not limited to one provider. Its fairly easy to move it in the future if required.
Be sure to use the features to keep your wordpress install up to date.
hth
Andy
If you set it up custom, you will forever be responsible for its maintenance.
Do yourself a favour, don't use TSOHost and the like, use one of the major platforms that allow custom domains, let him pick a template & plugins, Install mobile app on his phone etc and be done with it. Wordpress and so on.
Then when he has a problem, tell him to call, email or online chat them
Do yourself a favour, don't use TSOHost and the like, use one of the major platforms that allow custom domains, let him pick a template & plugins, Install mobile app on his phone etc and be done with it. Wordpress and so on.
Then when he has a problem, tell him to call, email or online chat them
Edited by hyphen on Tuesday 5th September 17:36
hyphen said:
If you set it up custom, you will forever be responsible for its maintenance.
Do yourself a favour, don't use TSOHost and the like, use one of the major platforms that allow custom domains, let him pick a template & plugins, Install mobile app on his phone etc and be done with it. Wordpress and so on.
Then when he has a problem, tell him to call, email or online chat them
TSOHost has WP. Please explain why I shouldn't use TSOHost? (Genuine question as I'm only technically capable enough to set up a WP site that has click and play installation like TSOHost.)Do yourself a favour, don't use TSOHost and the like, use one of the major platforms that allow custom domains, let him pick a template & plugins, Install mobile app on his phone etc and be done with it. Wordpress and so on.
Then when he has a problem, tell him to call, email or online chat them
Edited by hyphen on Tuesday 5th September 17:36
Hoofy said:
TSOHost has WP. Please explain why I shouldn't use TSOHost? (Genuine question as I'm only technically capable enough to set up a WP site that has click and play installation like TSOHost.)
I have no idea if you should or shouldn't 
Normally the priority for a new site is to generate traffic to it, and to do that you need to focus on creating content and so on. You want to focus at little as possible on any non-core work.
By using the hosted version rather than self-hosting, you are more likely to do that, seeing as the volume of Wordpress sites on the latter will be dwarfed by the former- it is all wordpress.com do and have done for a long time so it should be slick and trouble free, whereas a hosted site has other things to worry about.
If your site grows large, or your know that it is guaranteed to be a success, or there is a specific benefit that is essential to you or you actually want to learn to be more technical then sure go with self-host, but otherwise with the cost difference being insignificant when you factor in your time, you maybe happier getting on with generating content.
Edited by hyphen on Tuesday 5th September 19:47
I'd say avoid GoDaddy like the plaque! If you've not done this kinda thing before and want something simple then Squarespace will be ok. If things grow you'll quite possibly need to move in time. Also be warned that their hosting does suffer considerable downtime and there's nothing you can do about that.
If you fancy getting a bit more hands on then hosting from United Hosting is superb as is their support (24/7) they certainly go above and beyond. If you have a basic hosting account with them and you can one click install WordPress. Then like others have mentioned, free themes have limitations, but they are free and if you find one pretty close to what you want you'll be up and running quickly. https://www.unitedhosting.co.uk/hosting/web-hostin...
Oh and others are mentioning maintenance which is a valid point, you can outsource that though to make it stress free, check out http://wp-maintenance-team.co.uk/
Hope that's useful.
If you fancy getting a bit more hands on then hosting from United Hosting is superb as is their support (24/7) they certainly go above and beyond. If you have a basic hosting account with them and you can one click install WordPress. Then like others have mentioned, free themes have limitations, but they are free and if you find one pretty close to what you want you'll be up and running quickly. https://www.unitedhosting.co.uk/hosting/web-hostin...
Oh and others are mentioning maintenance which is a valid point, you can outsource that though to make it stress free, check out http://wp-maintenance-team.co.uk/
Hope that's useful.
Edited by ammark on Tuesday 5th September 23:11
Just to shed a little bit more light on this.
The site isn't going to grow in the future. As I said in my first post it's literally a landing page with contact details and maybe a photo gallery.
So ultimately I don't need to worry about scalability or traffic as all traffic will be direct.
I just need a solution that is easy to set up, reliable, ad free and easy to maintain going forward.
The site isn't going to grow in the future. As I said in my first post it's literally a landing page with contact details and maybe a photo gallery.
So ultimately I don't need to worry about scalability or traffic as all traffic will be direct.
I just need a solution that is easy to set up, reliable, ad free and easy to maintain going forward.
russy01 said:
Just to shed a little bit more light on this.
The site isn't going to grow in the future. As I said in my first post it's literally a landing page with contact details and maybe a photo gallery.
So ultimately I don't need to worry about scalability or traffic as all traffic will be direct.
I just need a solution that is easy to set up, reliable, ad free and easy to maintain going forward.
Any WP host then. It should be a one-click affair to install WP as the feature will be on the admin section that comes with a subscription.The site isn't going to grow in the future. As I said in my first post it's literally a landing page with contact details and maybe a photo gallery.
So ultimately I don't need to worry about scalability or traffic as all traffic will be direct.
I just need a solution that is easy to set up, reliable, ad free and easy to maintain going forward.
hyphen said:
Hoofy said:
TSOHost has WP. Please explain why I shouldn't use TSOHost? (Genuine question as I'm only technically capable enough to set up a WP site that has click and play installation like TSOHost.)
I have no idea if you should or shouldn't Normally the priority for a new site is to generate traffic to it, and to do that you need to focus on creating content and so on. You want to focus at little as possible on any non-core work.
By using the hosted version rather than self-hosting, you are more likely to do that, seeing as the volume of Wordpress sites on the latter will be dwarfed by the former- it is all wordpress.com do and have done for a long time so it should be slick and trouble free, whereas a hosted site has other things to worry about.
If your site grows large, or your know that it is guaranteed to be a success, or there is a specific benefit that is essential to you or you actually want to learn to be more technical then sure go with self-host, but otherwise with the cost difference being insignificant when you factor in your time, you maybe happier getting on with generating content.
Edited by hyphen on Tuesday 5th September 19:47
https://www.tsohost.com/web-hosting/wordpress-host...
russy01 said:
The site isn't going to grow in the future. As I said in my first post it's literally a landing page with contact details and maybe a photo gallery.
So Wordpress is a complete overkill then. As you are already familiar with 123-reg I'd be inclined just to do it all with them and either use their site builder or get someone to knock up a landing page for you.
Bikerjon said:
So Wordpress is a complete overkill then. As you are already familiar with 123-reg I'd be inclined just to do it all with them and either use their site builder or get someone to knock up a landing page for you.
This is what I thought, but I wanted more input before I popped up with this... If in the future said person wants a fully fledged site then thats their responsibility and they'd have to start from scratch anyway - so I might as well keep it as plain and straight forward as I can for now. Lord only knows what is going on here. 123-reg are just another host. Just like TSO.
I'm with TSO, and have no issues. I used to be with 123 and left for some reason. I genuinely can't remember why. It was years ago.
I'd go Wordpress myself. It's flexible and easy to change. for email either the google or microsoft offerings just work.
I'm with TSO, and have no issues. I used to be with 123 and left for some reason. I genuinely can't remember why. It was years ago.
I'd go Wordpress myself. It's flexible and easy to change. for email either the google or microsoft offerings just work.
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