jwsinchin

Thanks for the help. I bought the domains at namescheap and transfered them to ipower with no problem.

For various reasons, i decided that the best place to host my site was ipage This morning, I had a livechat with 'sales' at ipage. Sadly, I did not keep the transcript but I was told that I could obtain the domain name for $13.99 which compares well with the $19.99 at godaddy. This afternoon i returned to set up the account. The account set-up wizard will only allow the account holder's own credit card, but since I am using another credit card, I had to set up the account through livechat again. It is clear form the above conversation that I do not yet own the domain name in question, is it not? It is also clear that Matt Benson understands this. He clearly tells me to register the name elsewhere and to host with ipage. It transpires that (of course) domain names less than 60 days old cannot be transfered. I have not yet bought the domain name in question. It occurs to me that perhaps I can buy it without hosting it anywhere and simply place it at ipage, but I have no idea where to begin. Is there a quick fix?

There was a time when I considered myself highly tech-savvy: about ten years ago. The world has moved on an my brain has moved backwards. I find it extremely surprising that I can't find anything on the internet that tells me the basics in a step by step way. Let's establish what I am trying to do here, and assume that I am an idiot. First up, I want to buy a domain name. The domain names I want will be a .asia name. As near as I can gather this will cost me $19.99 for one year. My understanding is this payment entitles me to use the domain name for one year. What happens at the end of that year? What guarantees of future prices do I have? Who have I actually paid this money to? Who 'owns' this name (this non-existent name) right now? Where does the money go? Having purchased my domain name it needs to be hosted somewhere. I actually don't want any functionality at all. I am running a catering business. I want to show some menus, some links to reviews, happy customer comments, some prices, contact me. No sales, no sign ups, no interactions. Traffic to the site will come exclusively from the domain name on my business card and Craigs list type ads which I will stick up. There is no need whatsoever for any SEO, I'm not having adwords. Nada. Just five pages of texts and pictures, some downloadable menus and my phone number/email address. Even paying $5 a month to host such a thing seems to me to be a very expensive sledge hammer to crack a very cheap little nut. Obviously a solution to the problem is to use something like a free blog, but I'm in china which is problematic and I want the site to be called www.site.com or www.site.asia - i don't want to be part of blog.user/a/site.co.org.com/bollocks. What is the cheapest and most efficient way of hosting a tiny little site? My original intention was to simply use one of those very low functionality drag and drop type site building tools that come with the hosting, but there are almost invariably catches and costs involved with such tools. Nonetheless they still provide most of what I need. Should I look for a good idiot site builder and accept the limitations? Could I, starting from scratch, do all I need to do on Wordpress for example, within two days? (I actually know and understand a fair bit of HTML in a general knowledge kind of way, and used to be quite a quite skilled BASIC programmer about the time Bill Gates was actually writing code himself).

I need to make a couple of very simple websites. Generally, the proprietary website building tools that come free with hosting will do the trick. It is more or less pure window display. I don't need to be optimised for anything and I don't care about google. All traffic will come from my own clients who I will personally direct to the sites. Essentially we are talking about 3 -5 pages of flat dead text and 100 visitors a month. THE PROBLEM is that want clients to be able to download some PDFs from the site. I can't find and free web-design with hosting tools that offer this.