What costs are involved with a website?

[blossom]

One of my mum's friends has offered to design my website for free! :green:

So excited! I hadn't really considered it as I'm clueless :o

So, if my website is designed for free, can anyone give me a clue as to anything else I would have to pay? Presumably a host? (But really no idea.) I don't want to have a lovely website designed and then find the running costs are too much for me.

Any help appreciated,thanks x

 

[jcb85]

Well I am no Internet buff do knew I would never be able to design my own.
So I found a webhosting company who also provided me with email and a webpage creator.
This was through one.com and I paid £10 for the first year and £23 for the 2nd year which is the normal price.
But I found their web creator not very flexible or user friendly so now use weebly.com.
So weebly.com is where I created my website and one.com host the website for me and my email address etc all stayed with one.com

Have a look and see what you think
www.tip2toe.net

Xx

 

[jcb85]

If your looking from your mobile it's a mobile webpage but you can click at the bottom to see the full site

 

[CrunchBunch]

Once you've bought your domain name you can get free hosting on moonfruit, weebly, wix, wordpress or similar but you don't get many pages. I always find them enough though as I don't have loads of photos. You can port your email to gmail for free & have xxx@yourdomainname rather than [email protected].

So in essence it'll only cost you the 3 quid or so a year for the domain name. Hope this helps!

 

[blossom]

Well I am no Internet buff do knew I would never be able to design my own.
So I found a webhosting company who also provided me with email and a webpage creator.
This was through one.com and I paid £10 for the first year and £23 for the 2nd year which is the normal price.
But I found their web creator not very flexible or user friendly so now use weebly.com.
So weebly.com is where I created my website and one.com host the website for me and my email address etc all stayed with one.com

Have a look and see what you think
Tip To Toe Mobile Beautician High Wycombe - Mobile Beauty Therapist, Nail Technician in High Wycombe

Xx

Your website looks great!

 

[blossom]

Once you've bought your domain name you can get free hosting on moonfruit, weebly, wix, wordpress or similar but you don't get many pages. I always find them enough though as I don't have loads of photos. You can port your email to gmail for free & have xxx@yourdomainname rather than [email protected].

So in essence it'll only cost you the 3 quid or so a year for the domain name. Hope this helps!

That's unbelievable! I shall have to start getting some pictures together. Thanks so much

 

[CrunchBunch]

That's unbelievable! I shall have to start getting some pictures together. Thanks so much

Not a problem at all, there's a guide on weebly on how to do the email thing, takes about 10 mins, if you can't find it PM me & I'll dig it out for you X

 

[jcb85]

Your website looks great!

Thanks

I put a lot of work into the site but it paid off - I come up on the first google page now when searching

Good luck!

 

[blossom]

So do you think it would be better to let this friend do me the honours then? Using weebly or whatever?

Or do you think I ought to do it myself?

It was such a kind offer I don't want to offend, not to mention they do this sort of thing all the time.

 

[CrunchBunch]

No harm in letting your friend do it, so long as they know exactly what you want! I'd write the copy for it though - decide how many pages you want & the titles - home/treatments/prices/contact etc so you're not disappointed!