site building and hosting for dummies

[N-Smooth]

anyone have any suggestions for a cheap (or free) site builder and hosting service for someone that is not extremely savvy in that area?

a friend and i are thinking about launching a site


thanks!

 

[Cherokeester]

Godaddy- they will host you and their site builder is easy and fast. You can buy the domain and have a site up in an hour.

 

[N-Smooth]

i got the domain name for godaddy but saw that all of their site building and hosting has a cost

 

[cruiseroutfit]

What does the site do? Convey information? Sell a product? Forum? All are different needs and thus solutions. I don't claim to be an expert (or even novice) on any but have dabbled in a few different mediums and know what has worked OK for me.

 

[N-Smooth]

What does the site do? Convey information? Sell a product? Forum? All are different needs and thus solutions. I don't claim to be an expert (or even novice) on any but have dabbled in a few different mediums and know what has worked OK for me.

it will be a user-posted classifieds page so i imagine it's not the most simple build out there. i have thought about making it forum-based but vbulletin is $250 and i'm not sure if i'm ready to pay that just yet

 

[cruiseroutfit]

And even vB doesn't lend itself well to dedicated classifieds, I'd suspect website software suites built for classified is going to be more expensive than vB. Good luck!

 

[Deleted member 12904]

You need more then just a page builder for that. At a minimum you will need a back end database

Sent from my DROIDX using Tapatalk 2

 

[Deleted member 12904]

Phpbb is a free forum software that runs in a sql database. Its nit the best but its free

Sent from my DROIDX using Tapatalk 2

 

[N-Smooth]

i'm going to have to look into those options and pick the brain of my IT friend. now i know why this stuff is so expensive to have someone do for you... it sucks!

 

[Herzog]

Opensource classifieds: https://github.com/osclass/OSClass

But you will need more than free hosting to run it. You just need a basic shared apache/php/mysql server.

Check out Caleb's hosting, he's got some awesome prices: Cloud-Virt
The $4/month plan would likely get you by for quite a while.

 

[N-Smooth]

Thanks for that reference. That osclass deal might just work for a while at least. I will have to talk to Caleb about hosting

 

[pELYgroso]

What kind of classifieds?

 

[N-Smooth]

I can't give away all my secrets now can I? It's nothing that hasn't been done before but if I can do it affordable it seems like a "fun" project for me