Start Building Your Website With Free Web Hosting

In order to learn how to fix your
own website, you need a website to
practice on.

Free web hosting is a good starting
place.

Here's a free web host:

http://www.host-ed.net/

All you need to do to get started building
your own website is sign up for free web
hosting and they will give you a free sub-domain.

Let's say you choose alleycat as your
free subdomain.

Then your website will be found at this
web address:

http://alleycat.host-ed.net/

Make sense?

You don't have your own web address because
you've not paid for one. When you do decide
to pay for one, that's called registering a
domain name.

I'll save registering domain names for another
day.  We can talk about that later.

For now, just know that you will be using the
web address of your free hosting company and
that your free sub-domain will be under the
auspices of their domain name.

It works like this:

City.State

sub-domain.domain

Just as a city is under the auspices of a
state; so, a sub-domain is under the auspices
of a domain.

Again, I'll give you your hypothetical web
address:

http://alleycat.host-ed.net/

alleycat is the sub-domain that belongs to
you personally.

host-ed is the domain name that legally
belongs to your hosting company.

Put the two together and you have a web
address for your web site. Here. I'll
put your web address together again one
more time:

http://alleycat.host-ed.net/

Note that this is not a limitation. You
can always buy yourself a domain name at
a later date should you want your own web
address that you legally own.

However, using a sub-domain is a good
stop-gap if all you want to do is learn
how to create your own web site.

OK. I'll stop now. I think that's enough
information for now.

Ed Abbott

Edit Photos With The Gimp

OK. I promised to give you a third

tool that you can use to make repairs

to your website.

The tool? The Gimp. The Gimp is a

tool that does a lot of what Adobe

Photoshop does.

One difference is that Gimp is free.

The Gimp is available under three

operating systems: Windows, Mac,

and Linux.

I'll write more about Gimp in the

future. For now, search on it and

download it and install it if you

wish to learn more.

Ed Abbott

Choosing an Editor to Fix Your Website

OK. On to the next step.

In order to fix your website or

update your website, you need

a text editor.

Most people who own websites

use either Microsoft Windows or

the Apple Macintosh to view their

website.

I'll address both.

First, Windows users. Windows

users will do well to start editing

their website using Notepad.

Notepad is a primitive text editor

that allows you to edit HTML files

easily. That is to say, it is easy to

learn.

Notepad is the default editor for

Microsoft Windows.

The default editor for the Mac is

TextEdit. Here's an article that

describes how to set it up to edit

HTML files:

See TextEdit Article.

I've chosen these two editors, not

for their capabilities, but because

they are both easy to learn.

Perhaps I'll blog about more capable

editors later.

Ed Abbott

www.WebSiteRepairGuy.com

Fixing Your Own Website

OK. This is my first post.

This blog is all about fixing and repairing

your own website. It also includes website

updates.

I figure you need to learn how to use 3 tools

to do this:

First, you need a way to communicate with

your website. In other words, you need an FTP

program.

Filezilla would be my choice for you. Why?

Because it is free and it works under both

Microsoft Windows and Apple MacIntosh.

Here's where you get Filezilla:

http://filezilla-project.org/

More later.

Ed Abbott

www.WebSiteRepairGuy.com