Need advice on making and hosting a webpage

Submitted by jason on 24 February, 2007 - 02:06.

Hi,

Me and my mate have the idea in our heads of hosting a webpage to facilitate our organisational aspirations. We are very far from being computer whizzes and never really do more than send e-mails, etc.

How do we get started? Are there resources describing this kind of stuff?

Thanks,
Jas

24 February, 2007 - 02:25

pages.google.com might be an easy place to start.

24 February, 2007 - 04:58

Hi Jason, I see you're from Australia too. A number of hosting organisations in Australia exist for activists (not limited to Australia, but also Aotearoa, Oceania in general, even Poland) such as axxs.org. There's a number of geeks who make up the collective of axxs, myself included, who might be able to assist you with web development and whatnot.

Otherwise a number of free hosting companies exist, most often in the form of 'free blogs' such as wordpress.com. Despite being blog-targeted, these things can be useful for getting a quick, non-geek friendly site up and running.

PM me if you want more details about what axxs does and what it might be able to help you with.

24 February, 2007 - 05:06

One other thing - I started a site AptGetAnarchy.org that provides techy sort of information and tutorials for anarchists/activists. We don't have much stuff there at the moment in regards to building websites (it's mostly Linux-oriented) but that's a perfect place to put information to help you guys, and it's also the perfect place to ask for help. It's got quite a few active users who are techsavvy. So feel free to participate and call out for help!

26 February, 2007 - 00:13

Thanks guys. Will get round to checking that stuff out soon.

3 March, 2007 - 01:14

I've been playing round with the googlepage option and its real user friendly and easy to create a page. Thanks.

But what if you want to upload, say, essays? Is there the option for internal links to 'sub-pages' so that you can have the introduction homepage and than links to monthly commentaries for example?

3 March, 2007 - 10:18

<a href="http://address.of.the.page.com">title of the page</a>

9 March, 2007 - 01:01

Do the links have to be that sad grey colour?