Domain name and web-hosting recommendations?
Hi all,
I am planning to create my own small-business web-site (for a home-party business) very soon. I will not actually be selling any items from my site, but will have links to the main corporation and the company catalog displayed on my site (I would make 25% profit off of any sales that were linked from my site).
I found that catalog.com has a good hosting and domain-name deal, but it really caters to PC users. Can anyone recommend a Mac friendly hosting service for someone who is an utter web design virgin (but who has aspirations to become a web design "slut"--might as well put my BA in photography and my limited Photoshop experience to work for me...). I would like to find something that is fairly basic, and not too pricey.
Someone on another board did point me towards dreamhost.com, but they do not register .us addresses, and that is what I have chosen to register.
TIA for any info.
Kirsten
I am planning to create my own small-business web-site (for a home-party business) very soon. I will not actually be selling any items from my site, but will have links to the main corporation and the company catalog displayed on my site (I would make 25% profit off of any sales that were linked from my site).
I found that catalog.com has a good hosting and domain-name deal, but it really caters to PC users. Can anyone recommend a Mac friendly hosting service for someone who is an utter web design virgin (but who has aspirations to become a web design "slut"--might as well put my BA in photography and my limited Photoshop experience to work for me...). I would like to find something that is fairly basic, and not too pricey.
Someone on another board did point me towards dreamhost.com, but they do not register .us addresses, and that is what I have chosen to register.
TIA for any info.
Kirsten
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Their service has been reliable so far, no problems at all.
Thanks,
Kirsten
who knows though, i've looked around there and not come up with much either. you might want to try an e-mail, or call them up.
also, i wouldn't expect that what they say they'll offer today is going to stay the same 6 months down the line. this is a fairly new enterprise for Apple, and i wouldn't be surprised to see some shifting in the near future.
-alcimedes
<a href="http://homepage.mac.com/membername/foldername/mainpage.html" target="_blank">http://homepage.mac.com/membername/foldername/mainpage.html</a>
This link goes to nothing it's just an example
Good luck with your project
Now I am still looking for a web host, but I am not in a huge hurry. I think using the .mac Homepage service might be a good idea, since we already have a personal page through that. My question is, will I have to pay for each separate web-site through Homepage (like it appears we will have to do with our e-mail addresses, or drop down to one--which is a real PITA!)?
TIA,
Kirsten
"Apple's senior director of Application Product Marketing, Joe Hayashi, confirmed today that users would be able to add up to ten email accounts to a paid .Mac subscription. "We were thinking about our family customers when we did this," Hayashi told MacCentral.
The ten additional .Mac accounts get 5MB of storage space with no access to other .Mac services. Apple will offer the ten additional email addresses for a cost of $10 each."
So I guess I answered one of my questions.
Kirsten
it gives basically the registrations.. and other stuff u need.
So far i've mainly used the redirect kind of domains as i can have my sites hosted .. one at a university and others in some other sites...
<strong>macosxmommy: I am curious as to why you say catalog.com caters more to PC users. I have my home page hosted with them, and there's not really anything PC-centric about a unix hosting account. They are pretty good with tech support too (1 day e-mail turnaround) considering how inexpensive they are. Their POP server is a bit slow, but their web pages is fairly speedy.</strong><hr></blockquote>
I don't neccessarily think that they are "PC-centric," but as a total novice, I kind of feel more comfortable with being hosted by a company that is more Mac specific and is very familiar with the ins and outs of OS X and mac-specific issues. I guess the problems I have had with Earthlink as our ISP (the mac-preferred ISP....) and them giving us PC directions for things, when we have asked about mac issues, has made me a bit gun-shy.