How hard/expensive is it to make a website for myself?

looking at 1and1.co.uk, 1G space with 15G of traffic a month is a fiver plus vat.

it's very easy to make terrible looking websites. 8) but a basic site can look ok and probably wouldn't even qualify as 'programming'

0 skills and I think my benefactor pays 20 Warlock Bucks/annum or something.

depends on what you mean by web programming. if you're just talking html/css then yes its a doddle and you'll have a pretty looking site.

Flash might make the site even more wizzo, if done sensibly. Although some people are put off by Flash ran sites.

i stick with blogs now, on a seperate host so i get a reasonable domain name and more space for files, as its easier to post new entries (and I blog to it from my phone too)

you can always just install a web server program on it!

e.g. http://www.seedyuk.com = my computer at home.

e.g. http://www.seedyuk.com = my computer at home.

does this mean your computer is on 24/7?

ste's blog suggestion seems a better idea tbh.

i'd be worried about the legality of uploading hours of music, albeit mixed, onto a site traceable back to you...

* microsoft etc seem to be trying to make their operating systems 'easier' by abstracting the low level file system stuff, hiding extensions, 'My Documents' etc, which means people don't know this fundamental stuff anymore. sorry, personal bugbear. don't get me started about the twunts who use spaces in filenames...

and you'd leave a lightbulb on all day?

I don't want to use Yousendit etc

so many bloggers doing it now, plus i don't think people mind as much when it comes to mixes anyway - the material is not isolated but in a particular context among other material. i only had trouble when it was suspected i was selling mixes rather than just giving them away.

- sign up to blogger and mess about with a blog for a while

- learn html from various websites (takes seconds!)
- with you're new found skills mess about with your blog template html (you can always revert back to the default template if you fuck up)
- learn css when you're comfy with html (to tidy up your layouts - blogger uses css a lot)
- again mess about with the blog template with your new found skills

- purchase a host server place, shop around for best price
- change the settings in your blog so it publishes to your new host (that way you get all your files and pages in one location and easily accessible by yourself)(but its optional)

- chuck all your mixes onto your server space in a new folder, link from blog

but but but Word can edit HTML files!!! :-D

i might consider leaving the lightbulb on all day if i can access the light it provides remotely from my office during working hours!

making a site is pretty easy with just html and css. a good thing to do is just a 'view source' on a site you like, and see how they've done it. flash is kinda contentious, a lot of people dont like it. i find it irritating. you can make the website on your own computer, to see how it will look, before uploading somewhere.

i think its worth getting a domain and space rather, you can incorporate blog/myspace should you wish. a lot of artist sites seem to have myspace/flickr links from frontpage. and a blog section can easily become a news section

for pcs, i have found notepad a worthy program. notepad is better than word anyway, who would want to process a word

Notepad is a bit rubbish if you need to do anything intensive. I use emacs.

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yeah, and i can put screws in with a hammer if i hit them hard enough. 8)

well no you don't but it sure can make a really messy html page easier to read sometimes.