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Question

how to create a website

Oct 6, 2011 6:23PM PDT

without spending money?

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Answer
Re: website
Oct 6, 2011 6:36PM PDT

It's easy and free to create the website on your own PC and only publish it when it's all fine and dandy and fully working.

To publish it, you need 2 things:
1. A domain name (like cnet.com). Those aren't free, but cheap. A yearly fee of 10 to 20 dollars would be reasonable.
2. A hosting provider to 'host' the website and make it available to all users of Internet. You might be able to find a free one, but that will clutter your nice website with ads to make the money you don't want to pay. So if it's getting serious, there's another fee of 5 to 10 USD a month.

Two possible alternatives:
- Maybe your ISP offers a free homepage as part of your subscription. The your site would be something like www.yourprovider.com/~luckyandpancho. That's worthwhile to check. It's not really free, but it's included in the subscription you already have.
- Maybe you don't want a website but just a blog. Many sites offer a free blog.

Kees

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Thank you
Oct 6, 2011 11:51PM PDT
This will give me a good start; have a great day. Happy