Noobie Alert!!
RichD
Essex, UK
Hello all,
I am about to venture into the world wide world of web! I am working for a small record production and promotions company and looking to design a site for them. I am reasonably computer literate but have very little web experience.
I have produced basic info websites and I understand the principles of basic design and web graphics etc. However we would like to add a forum which I believe is done through PHP scripting.
Anyway in short can anyone recomend any good web resources for site design and what are peoples recomendations for hosting companies. I am UK based but does it matter if I use a US host?
Thanks.
I am about to venture into the world wide world of web! I am working for a small record production and promotions company and looking to design a site for them. I am reasonably computer literate but have very little web experience.
I have produced basic info websites and I understand the principles of basic design and web graphics etc. However we would like to add a forum which I believe is done through PHP scripting.
Anyway in short can anyone recomend any good web resources for site design and what are peoples recomendations for hosting companies. I am UK based but does it matter if I use a US host?
Thanks.
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which would yield an INTERNATIONAL phone call for support.
Secondly, they speak American English at those American support numbers.
Look for a host in the UK, or if not a support forum for the ISP.
Your post appears to be from a PHP noobie. Thus the host needs to be
completely set up for you. there may be glitches in install unless the
personnel of the Host are good with PHP and have hosted or are hosting
forums of PHP type (there ARE other types). And the forum will need a
database also.
Primesuspect knows lots of what is needed, but I need to use long distance
to talk to him in the US. I host two sites with him. You can PM him and see
who he might recommend, or see if Shorty here can recommend a good
forum hosting company which he knows the reputation about.
Note that this forum is hosted in the US despite one of the three owners
being domiciled in the UK and and two other owners being owned in the
US. The host company involved is one owned by one of the US owners
who knows BSD for hosting(Prime) and the British owner
(Shorty) did the PHP that makes this forum customized with General
Keebler also helping with some PHP and\or Java and customizing.
If you're looking to add a forum, I highly recommend going with a pre-existing software package like vBulletin (that's what we use here, obviously). Forum software is very complicated, and coding one from scratch would probably be a waste of resources, especially when vBulletin is a very reasonable price. I suspect you may be able to at least get them set up on your own following their instructions, though you many need help if you want to customize it extensively. Your host would need to provide PHP and MySQL database services.
As far as web access, it will not matter where your host is located.
As Straight_Man mentioned, Brian Ambrozy (primesuspect on this forum; one of the co-owners of this site) owns a US hosting company if you want to send him a private message for info.