I am going to be starting my own business (cupcakes) and I was wondering who everyone uses to make there webpages? I am new to creating a webpage so any help would be great.

Cheers,
Jamie

go to http://www.godaddy.com see if teh name you'd like is available

buy it its about $8.95

go to surpasshosting.com click on Shared Hosting on the right side

for $60 a year they will host your website and you can design from there or hire someone.

i know of two people who design web pages, if interested, please pm me.

We just started ours up with godaddy.com last week. Was pretty painless & a lot cheaper than other sites. Good luck.

Freewebs.com is who I use and they have been great - you can also pay fees and get add-ons to your site - I think I need to splurge for a custom name soon!

cakecre8tor, i have a question about the freewebs site...once you try to set it up, how do you get rid of all the advertising that pops up at the top of the site? does it disappear once you pay for a server?

free sites usually have the ads on ..if you get paid webserver there are no ads

www.surpasshosting.com click on shared hosting on right you get a whole year for $60

some places charge up to $15 a month

I've not heard of anyone on here using Yahoo webhosting, which is what I use. It was easy for me, and a year ago I couldn't even upload pictures to my computer, and I created a 3 page site.
They have templates that make it easy breezy too. It's 12.00 a month for me, which includes a contact form that emails me when someone fills out the form. I get contacted that way at least twice a week now for weddings.
However, my husband will be redoing my site for me in the next couple of weeks once he finishes his agency's website. A lot of CC'ers sites have given me great inspiration to look a lot more fun, professional, and userfriendly.

Register.com $4.95 a month for 5 pages. Mine was up and running in under 2 hours and I know NOTHING about websites. I eventually got an upgrade for $15 a month for 20 pages so I could add more pics.

However.....

My 14 year old has shown me how to set up a site on Flickr.com (a website for photos) where I can put almost unlimited photos. I now have a link in my cake website that takes people to the Flickr site to see more photos. She's working on getting me a My Space site where we can do the same thing. So with these 2 sites linked to my cake site, it's possible I could work with just 5 pages if I wanted.

I used Hyper Street. I think you just need to check them all out and go from there.

I used a yahoo geocities free page for a while last year for a fundraising thing I was doing ... I never saw an ad on the page.

the website would be;

www.geocities.com/whateveryouwant

I have been using Yahoo WebHosting for years and it has to be the best for ease of use and it has some amazing features that no one else offers (unless you pay them a small fortune). I have been running my Non-Profit through them and I get thousands of hits daily and I have never had a problem yet. I would be more than glad to help you set up a site, and give tutorials on how to use it and the addons.

You can check out my sites at www.SupportASoldier.org and www.WorksofArtCakes.com

Have a SWEET day!

Vavette

For freewebs, you have to upgrade to one of their premiums to remove the ads.

I use Homestead. $4.99 per month and no ads.

I use 1and1.com. My domain only costs $6 a year, and they give you tons of space and email for not much more.
I took my website classes online at night after the kids were in bed, and I do the site myself. I have found web design places online that you can get flash pages for about $60 and then you customize them, but I'm too cheap Many places cost a lot more. I know on 1and1 you can pay extra and use their site builder which helps you build your pages.

good luck!

I use http://www.hostfor2bucks.com/, costs around $25/year and I designed my own site using namowebeditor, costs around $100 at office depot, this program is very easy to use it is like word, you can put as many pages on your site as you want, and they have great customer service. This is the cheapest and the best that I have found. My BIL designs websites and he suggests it. He has had so many problems with godaddy.com's customer service. He is also an excellent designer, not advertising for him, but if you need a good designer then send me a private message and I will send you his contact info.

I spluged for a name at Godaddy.com...I paid $70 for ten years (I think)....however I found that for freewebs to use the name I had to pay!! That really ticked me off but what is a girl to do. I paid for a year but I might switch hosts next year if I can find a cheeper one. I like freewebs because it is really easy to use...but I am all about a deal! Looks like some folks here have better deals!

www.1and1.com is awesome. Your domain is only $6 a year, like I said. They give you your domain, plus up to 100 subdomains for free plus a bunch of email address, webhosting including CGI for forms and everything for as low as $3 a month. You get a rediculous amount of space, and more and I NEVER have trouble with them. They've been great!

They were recommended to me by my husband the computer geek who never has time to work on MY site.