A website for my Campaign? Help a brotha out!

[Bendris Noulg]

As far as hosting, you could submit a request to Adlon over at Mortality . I hear there are some really cool hosted sites over there.

I recommend this as well; He's generally pretty cool, and will set you up with enough of the basics that you can eventually pick up the design work yourself (html is easy once you learn the basics).

 

[Gez]

I use Free. Only 100 megs per account, but an unlimited number of accounts For free.

Not really interesting for people outside of France, though, because it's an ISP... However, you may look at http://psionicist.free.fr/ to discover a noticeable exception (Thanks to me. )

 

[Drawmack]

If your looking for someone to build the site for you, I can say that, after thinking of hiring a professional, and looking around at pricing, the offer that Liquide made is an excellent one, and if I was looking for a webmaster, I'd jump on that offer.

My offer was at 22.50/hour not $25.00

 

[haiiro]

If you're interested in learning the basics of HTML, I highly recommend picking up the latest edition of Elizabeth Castro's "HTML for the World Wide Web," which is a Visual Quickstart Guide put out by Peachpit Press. (I have the fourth edition, but I bought it a few years back.)

This book is a great starting point, and it will teach you everything you need to know to get started on site design. Despite being aimed at novices, it doesn't dumb things down (which I can't stand in any book that I'm trying to learn something from).

 

[Byrons_Ghost]

I'll second that. I've got Castro's book and a couple of other Quickstart guides, and they've all be very helpful.

I also get a lot of my graphics/backgrounds from the following site:
www.eosdev.com

All the graphics are free for non-commercial use, and there's some excellent articles on page layout and whatnot.

 

[NeuroZombie]

Don't overlook the "Dummies" books for learning the basics either. I started with a copy of HTML for Dummies from the library, and now I have almost a dozen pro sites under my belt.

You can get it for around 25$ as well, about the cheapest you can get for a web design book, especially if you just want to know enough to put up a basic site.

I will quote you a price as well, but it is not professional to make bids on a message board, so you can email me is you want another opinion on price.

 

[haiiro]

Don't overlook the "Dummies" books for learning the basics either. I started with a copy of HTML for Dummies from the library, and now I have almost a dozen pro sites under my belt.

You can get it for around 25$ as well, about the cheapest you can get for a web design book, especially if you just want to know enough to put up a basic site.

YMMV and all that, but all of the "Dummies" titles I've looked at (including the HTML one) are prime examples of books that dumb things down to the point of irritation. I also found the formatting and flow of information to be much less useful than the approach adopted by the VQS titles.

The 5th edition of the VQS HTML book I mentioned a couple of posts up is US$20 retail, US$15.39 on Amazon.

 

[Bendris Noulg]

A crash-course in HTML can be obtained by selecting Source under the View Menu in your Browser (IE, at any rate).

 

[Drawmack]

Bendris has hit the nail on the head. That's how I learned HTML. Well kind of. I found a primmer on line that taught me the very basics then I would download people's sites and play with their code to learn what things did. Though I do recommend Web Pages That Suck - teaches good web design by looking a bad pages.

 

[Liquide]

My offer was at 22.50/hour not $25.00

I will quote you a price as well, but it is not professional to make bids on a message board, so you can email me is you want another opinion on price.

On a note I didn't make an offer , just examples on what I would usually charge (the bidding process is sacred for me if it is a job I want to have)