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Post by Wildfire the Dragon on Jul 20, 2005 7:06:13 GMT -5
OK, I doing a few things before school starts again which should be at least Aug. 20 or more.
I'm making a website for certain game characters like Mario, Sonic, Spyro, Megaman, Pokemon, and Anime. I need a name, and best program like Geocites to make it at.
I'm also making a Forum too. I need a name for this too, and best program.
And last, Which Drawing Program like Photoshop or Open Canvas. Which is best and how much does it cost. Could you please help?
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Post by Vizsual on Jul 20, 2005 7:19:12 GMT -5
Website:
Website editing tool: Dreamweaver MX 2004 Professional
Web Hosting: SiteBurg
If you want to host on your computer, use Apache, PHP, MySql and No-IP
I reccomended you to host on your server but you must use high-speed internet or broadband
and you must open the computer and connected to the internet all the time (24 hrs. a day)
Hosting on your computer is good because:
- Unlimited Disk Space (Your hard drive is your website base)
- No Ads
- Copy file to the web folder instead of upload
- Free
- It's good! XD
But sometimes not good because:
- Must open the computer all the day (3 days agop my computer is too heat and I have to close the website because the computer stops working)
- Must use broadband
- Your internet will be a little slow
- Must always connect to the internet and Disable Firewall
- Sometime it's not good (XD)
Forum:
Best is phpBB and easiest too. It comes with SiteBurg.
If you want board sililar to YC, try YaBBSE
or use ProBoards.
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Post by Enrique on Jul 20, 2005 7:21:45 GMT -5
Geocities is okay, but space will run out fast. 50megs (.com) gives plenty of space, but the editors are too difficult to use, and they insist that you use a template that you have to delete half the crap they put in anyway to call it yours. I use Freewebs.
I haven't experimented with forums yet, but I'm guessing, with over 1 million forums up, Proboards would be a good place to go. But don't quote me on it.
I once used Photoshop long ago, and loved it, but I don't really want to download the 300+ MB CS2 trial version over dial-up (I download the trial for CS on my aunt's computer, because she has broadband, and burned it on a CD for my own computer), and I'm too cheap to buy it.
As for names, you're on your own. Mine is named Enrique's Underground (I'm still finding stuff to put on it, but I know I'm going to put more than just gaming stuff on it; that's why I don't have a link for it yet in my profile). You should come up with a name that suggests that it primarily concerns gaming.
I hope this helps!
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Post by Vizsual on Jul 20, 2005 7:40:28 GMT -5
editors are too difficult to use You should use Dreamweaver to design a webpage. And flash to help with animation. You can host webboard on my server... I have three webboard left... - IPB - phpBB + FlashBB - vBulletin These forum were unused. PM me if you want And my server is not 100% uptime! |
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Post by Wildfire the Dragon on Jul 20, 2005 7:49:26 GMT -5
Dreamweaver will teach me how to make a site? The thing is that I have a 56K connection and want to be sure. But how do I use broadband? I'm just a little confused right now...I not really a wiz at websites but I try to learn. I have a book on making web pages with HTML. I just having a little doubt about certain things. I might need more detail on this stuff...
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Post by Vizsual on Jul 20, 2005 8:33:27 GMT -5
This is the Screenshot of Dreamweaver MX 2004 Professional.  |
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Post by Gene L.D. Ryoko on Jul 20, 2005 8:42:07 GMT -5
jayshi,talk to soul,he made yoshi art and yoshi's corner
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Post by Lord of the Dance on Jul 20, 2005 18:07:24 GMT -5
I looked at a book called making a Web site (for Dummies), but didn't get to read through it. It looks very informative, though, and could probably help with the technical stuff. Of course, Soul could do that too.
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Post by boomiester on Jul 20, 2005 18:16:39 GMT -5
I use Netscape composer cause it's free, but it has slightly less features than dreamweaver. Broadband is a type of internet service, just like your 56K dial-up. The easiest way to make a website is through Yahoo geocities, it is very easy but you are limited by space usage and there will be advertisements on your page. When you use Composer or dreamweaver to make a site, you then need to have it hosted on a server, which usually costs money. I don't recomend making your computer a server because your internet upload speed will be the site visitors download speed (even for broadband, downloads would be at most 400kb per second, on dial up, it would be <56k) comercial servers are much faster and usually a good idea.
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Post by PinkFloydYoshi on Jul 20, 2005 19:39:40 GMT -5
Dreamweaver = lots of money for a licence. Netscape composer, as Boo-meister said, or like me, get settled with Notepad, and www.w3schools.com/html . Hosting by yourself has a large number of advantages, but hosts can offer some extremely good features, apart from staying on 24 hours a day. These advantages can include a pair of T1 trunks, or even a 100Mb pipe. Easier to implement new scripts, and also, the advanced stuff such as locking down unneeded ports. You'd also have a huge problem if you got Denial of Service'd. The server my site was hosted on went dead because a site on my server (On Shyper.com) received a DOS attack. There's lots of security risks when hosting yourself. I host private stuff, and a Windows Media stream on this box here, on a 2Mb DSL line. It's quick and all, but I don't have anything anyone can download on here. If I did, it'd kill my connection until they cancelled the download since I can't be bothered to set up bandwidth throttling, since I don't host files. I throttle WM Streams to 20k each. I think my max upstream is 256, so, 10 listeners would be the total maximum I could have. Any more, and everyone would start buffering. If hosting your own site, you also need an almost bulletproof firewall (ie, only allow traffic coming into the needed ports, and close all other ports to reduce the risk of vunerability). There is a firewall up on this box, but I've specifically told it to allow traffic on the needed ports. Even if you have a site hosted, you absolutely need a firewall. See, there's all these things to consider when hosting yourself. If you do set up a forum, I recommend against phpBB. It's had some incredibly bad security flaws. IPB hasn't had anywhere near as many, but it's rather rock solid with all patches applied. You still need to keep on top of new security patches. With phpBB, you need to keep on top of it more. More phpBB boards are defaced than any other type of forum software. YaBBSE (Proboards clone) is good too. Extremely easy to skin too. Seems fairly secure too, but it's now abandoned and unsupported, so it may not be long before a vunerability is found. For my own site, I bought a yearly IPB 2 licence. The featureset is humongous, it's easy to use, and you can customize it to look how you want the board to look, however, it's rather difficult to skin. It's a joy to use though. I find it's database queries are also superbly quick, and involve less queries than most software, resulting in faster HTTP replies. I actually had a version of phpBB on one of my old boxes, and set it up on a 56k line. the box was a 233Mhz P2, with 64Mb memory. Not good. Because 2 guests were looking around, it slowed the server down to that of a 8Mhz 8086 because of database requests, PHP execution, and HTTP requests. This box takes it lovely though. 1.7Ghz Compaq Evo D300, got a memory upgrade to 782Mb memory today. While this box can easily host a site, and serve downloads, the connection wouldn't take it. 256k upstream is nothing. Go for hosted site. You'll find it alot easier. Hosting on your own system is for advanced users only. You need at the very least 1 T1 connection (1.54Mb each way). I could drone on about this for hours, but to keep board users sane, I'll stop. Edit's: Corrected a few spelling mistakes. Huge lack of sleep recently. |
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Post by Enrique on Jul 21, 2005 14:28:24 GMT -5
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Post by PinkFloydYoshi on Jul 21, 2005 14:53:36 GMT -5
Hmm. I put a space after that url so it didn't join the url to the '.'. Looks like Proboards joined it anyway. Great. Yeah, that url's right also. Sorry 'bout that. |
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