Small Sailing Assoc. website

[Dave_Rolfe]

I have taken over as Webmaster for our sailing association (NAVA - Navigator & Venturer Assoc.) for the Newbridge boats in the title.

I am struggling a little to say the least and am hoping that someone may have been in a similar position and found a site that gives basic, sound advice on how to proceed. Our website is currently on fsnet which seems to be now run by Orange and wants me to reactivate a Pay as You Go account which I am reluctant to do before I can access the site to replace an updated form.

Can you recommend a host for the website that will not charge (or have minimal charges) as we are only a small assoc. (100 members approx) spread throughout the UK. Also advice on where to find an easy to understand guide to html as I do like to understand what I am doing when trying to amned a document.

Any help or advice would be appreciated.

 

[Malcb]

You could contact the VOA web master via our web site, just follow the link below. He could give you some assistance.

 

[stevebirch2002]

Have a look at the Vega Website:

www.albinvega.co.uk

I use 123-reg to host and as holding for my domain names. Seem to work and cheap enough. Let me know if I can help with advice etc:

steve@albinvega.com
Cheers

 

[VicS]

The Seawych Owners have just built a new website using a template from http://www.joomlashack.com/ Personally dislike the template chosen but the site is http://www.seawych.org/ Some of the other templates might take your fancy.
You'll see that we have a members area which includes contact details for committee members etc, a picture gallery (dunno why that's in the members area), a message board, recent magazines (newsletters), a substantial owners manual and the shop,

A Google search will find a number of html tutors.

I cannot help you with hosting I'm afraid.


I am surprised you do not form part of the Corribee owners association.

 

[davidpbo]

I look after a website for a sailing club I volunteer for hosted by UKDomains, now names.co.uk

It may be worth asking the RYA whether they host sites for clubs.

 

[lw395]

Don't know what you would consider minimal charge, but I can recommend netweaver.com, who charge me £42 a year all in for my company hosting and email/webmail hosting. No charges to take your domain name elsewhere, unlike some cheaper hosting packages, where unless you pay a fat exit fee, you lose the domain name. I'd be interested to know what other people pay.
Cheers,

 

[isandell]

It's worth looking at heartinternet. Their free hosting service may do you if it's a simple website and traffic is now too large. Cheap domain name registry as well.

Ian

 

[srp]

I use an American hosting company called A Small Orange - very reasonable fees and excellent tech support. No worries with them holding on to your domain name (lw395 rightly points out that some companies are a bit naughty on this).
I didn't use a template for the Corribee site - just Dreamweaver and html, but I don't see anything wrong with using a plain and simple web-template service for what you want. I decided from the outset that I wasn't going to get involved with a forum or a boat database, as it's too much trouble for a small readership and no financial gain. Whatever you do don't use FrontPage, Publisher, Word or any other sort of non-web authoring program to produce your web pages.
A forum member with the name of Webcraft posts on here from time to time, and is obviously more than qualified to comment judging by his past helpful and knowledgable posts - it may be worth sending him a pm or waiting to see if he replies here.

 

[Marmalade]

Talk to Glenn at Cobra-cms - top bloke and a real guru on this stuff

www.cobra-cms.com

No interest - we run our sailing club website on it

www.marconi-sc.org.uk

 

[exfinnsailor]

www.hostroute.co.uk .. are ok .. £29 a year .. Good technical help via email .. Domain Names cost £10 for a .co.uk for 2 years .. Email is included .. Redirects also .. Used MS Publisher .. Works well and most people can find their way round it in an evening .. Not to difficult to set up and get going .. Only downside is you need IE7 or IE6 on your pc to see the site .. But with the ease of programming .. Well worth it .. Lots of bells and whistles .. Have a look at www.quorion.co.uk thats been programmed using MS Publisher

 

[aitchw]

Do you not have some free space with your ISP that you could use? Even if you used it short term whilst getting in to the whole thing it would be costing nothing and you would have a better idea what you need in the future. It would be easy to move your website when you are ready.

 

[SwedishLass]

I use the freespace which comes as part of my orange broadband service( up to 5 sites 30Mb each) Website is in there. The only issue is the banner adverts at the top of each page, but then there is no such thing as a free lunch.

We have a host which could look after the site but uploads are a hassle and they charge extra for bandwidth if we exceed quota.

The association website was created in dreamweaver, because I had it. I tried to make it as fast to load as possible as many of the members are still dial up, hence the simple style Atalanta Owners .

There are many good, easy use packages out there, word will create simple if dirty web pages and link them together for a start. Also publisher, but it seems to eat Mb. My first site was created in Serif page plus although they now do a web plus application simply by populating a template.

Upload to the free space using the ISP instructions. I then use the redirect which is part of my domain name package.

 

[webcraft]

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Talk to Glenn at Cobra-cms - top bloke and a real guru on this stuff

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Erm . . . he said he was looking for something cheap - see the quote below from Cobra CMS's website!!

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Pricing
Standard edition: This edition is targeted at small business and not-for-profit organisations that need a comprehensive but affordable CMS solution. This edition is fully functional but has certain limitations (see edition matrix below). It is licensed to a single website host name [1]. This product only runs on a Microsoft Access database. The edition retails at €1,200 - £825 and annual product maintenance is €218 - £150.

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You could try going with 123-Reg and using their basic sitebuilder DIY service for a grand total of £1.99 a month.

The advice someone gave about NOT using Word, Publisher etc. to produce web pages is sound.

-W

 

[Jonny_H]

Try www.freewebs.com

Free site, the web address would be www.freewebs.com/[INSERT SITE NAME] or you can register a domain address very cheaply.

Lots of templates to choose from you don't need HTML.

You can also set-up a forum on the site, a guestbook, blog, picture gallery, even a shop linked to Paypal - all using their online software.
Very easy

Have a look at our site for an idea ...

www.freewebs.com/jksailing

Jonny