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Strategies & Market Trends : A.I.M Users Group Bulletin Board -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Steve Grabczyk who wrote (9408)	11/30/1999 10:42:00 AM
From: JZGalt	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 18928

I was wondering if the cost might be prohibitive. Depends on how serious you want to be. If you want a domain name, space, access, security, e-mail and other such website features beyond what might be included in a account at AOL or some other ISP provider, it should cost less than $20/month for this. I've used HostPro as a provider and they are ok (cheap enough, yet providing support). Most people selling you space, will not provide you with HTML support without additional charges. Unless you are serious, I would hack together some pages and put it on my own ISP provider before signing up for anything. Although it seems easy to keep this stuff up to date with a few clicks from a spreadsheet, the learning curve is still relatively steep to go from ground zero to a nice website. If you have trouble with the layout of website, then that is the killer beyond any domain sort of thing you might want to work on.

To: Steve Grabczyk who wrote (9408)	11/30/1999 3:22:00 PM
From: OldAIMGuy	Respond to of 18928

Hi Steve, ExecPc charges me a flat rate for "unlimited access" to their server that includes 4 Meg. of space for my web pages. Many ISP's including AOL and Prodigy will give you 1 or 2 Meg. with your regular subscription. That's PLENTY of space for a few AIM screens and some history. I used to get away with less space, but as I've added more pictures to the race car pages, I exceeded their lower threshold. In other words, most of the space is devoted to the race car stuff and just a tiny bit to AIM! :-) Have to keep our priorities right! I'd have to check, but I don't believe I pay much more than about $20/month when I keep my subscription paid up a year in advance. If I want to get my own domain name, etc, the price goes up. There's some very easy web page software around. The one I use is getting old, but works well. It allows me to view it "split screen" so I can see what I'm creating as I work. I'm sure there's newer ones and the whole world of "JAVA" has come about since I started building pages. Best regards, Tom

To: Steve Grabczyk who wrote (9408)	11/30/1999 7:02:00 PM
From: Dataminer1	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 18928

Hi Steve, There's quite a few ways you can get some AIM webpages up, depending on the amount of "fooling around" you want to do. Most of the "portals" will give you free web space, though you may be restricted to one page. You can actually WYSIWYG yourself up a nice page to start and take it from there. Here's an example of one I put up at Infoseek in a few minutes. homepages.infoseek.com If you want to build a "site", your ISP most likely offers plenty of free space with your account. I do all my HTML by hand because I like the clean code and the control I have. I learned by copying some simple pages and changing the text and images. Then I got a 1200 page book! I never really used any HTML software so I can't comment other than to say that I've seen the "garbage code" they can produce. The one thing I was unclear on at first was the need for FTP software. You use it to "put up" the pages. I use WSFTP which has a drag and drop browser interface. It's quite easy once you get the basics. If you need any tips, let me know. Glad to help. I hope to see some pages from you soon! Regards, D1