Need advice on making and hosting a webpage

jason "Dolphins are overrated: They're currently just riding some good PR."
Posts: 526 Joined: 22-07-06 Location: Australia
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

rkn
Posts: 7651 Joined: 17-07-06 Location: London
24 February, 2007 - 02:25

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

aketus "I'm not in London!"
Posts: 320 Joined: 16-02-06 Location: Melbourne, Australia
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.

aketus "I'm not in London!"
Posts: 320 Joined: 16-02-06 Location: Melbourne, Australia
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!

jason "Dolphins are overrated: They're currently just riding some good PR."
Posts: 526 Joined: 22-07-06 Location: Australia
26 February, 2007 - 00:13

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

jason "Dolphins are overrated: They're currently just riding some good PR."
Posts: 526 Joined: 22-07-06 Location: Australia
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?

catch "unpractical[sic] and blinkered"
Posts: 10024 Joined: 07-02-06 Location: London
3 March, 2007 - 10:18

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

jason "Dolphins are overrated: They're currently just riding some good PR."
Posts: 526 Joined: 22-07-06 Location: Australia
9 March, 2007 - 01:01

Do the links have to be that sad grey colour?