Hello all, In the spring (June), Mary and I will be starting our loop from Massachusetts. One of my chores this winter is to get a web site up and running. What is the easiest way to do this? What can I expect to pay for hosting? I have seen some very nice sites that have been done by Loopers and am wondering how difficult this project will be. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, MAry & SCOTt MASCOT 2000 Mainship 390 Looping June 2007 >Gary wrote: >The good news is most of us have >websites where we recorded the places as we did the trip, and expressed our >impressions while they were fresh and clear.

Scott You have two fees to consider for domain hosting: first is the yearly domain name registration fee, and second is the domain hosting yearly fee (that puts your domain on the Internet). I use www.readyhosting.com to host several of my domains and web sites. If you are starting a brand new domain name, they will register it and pay the yearly registration fees for life as long as you are with them. They charge $99/year for up to 1Gb of storage (plenty to post pictures), and you can set up unlimited email accounts for your domain. You might consider a domain name like www.Mascot.com or www.MascotGreatLoop.com or whatever. R. ----- Original Message ----- > > In the spring (June), Mary and I will be starting our loop from > Massachusetts. > One of my chores this winter is to get a web site up and running. What is > the > easiest way to do this? What can I expect to pay for hosting? I have > seen > some very nice sites that have been done by Loopers and am wondering how > difficult this project will be. Any help would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > MAry & SCOTt > MASCOT 2000 Mainship 390 > Looping June 2007

Scott You can try www.geocities.com. The basic package is free (web site, file manager, etc). There are a few restrictions (bandwidth, amount of disk storage, etc) and you have to put up advertising when you visit the site. You will get a web site url in the form of www.geocities.com/xxx (you get to pick the xxx but http://www.geocities.com/mascot is available). It's all done in html so you can move all of your files and pictures to another site later without much effort. Cheers Steve Bottoms 42' Sealord Midland, Ont. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ralph Yost (home)" <Ralph@AlphaCompServices.com> To: "Scott Coles" <scott.coles@comcast.net>; <great-loop@lists.samurai.com> Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 6:27 AM Subject: Re: GL: Web Sites > Scott > You have two fees to consider for domain hosting: first is the yearly > domain > name registration fee, and second is the domain hosting yearly fee (that > puts your domain on the Internet). > I use www.readyhosting.com to host several of my domains and web sites. > If you are starting a brand new domain name, they will register it and pay > the yearly registration fees for life as long as you are with them. They > charge $99/year for up to 1Gb of storage (plenty to post pictures), and > you > can set up unlimited email accounts for your domain. > You might consider a domain name like www.Mascot.com or > www.MascotGreatLoop.com or whatever. > R. > > ----- Original Message ----- > >> In the spring (June), Mary and I will be starting our loop from >> Massachusetts. >> One of my chores this winter is to get a web site up and running. What >> is >> the >> easiest way to do this? What can I expect to pay for hosting? I have >> seen >> some very nice sites that have been done by Loopers and am wondering how >> difficult this project will be. Any help would be appreciated. >> >> Thanks, >> MAry & SCOTt >> MASCOT 2000 Mainship 390 >> Looping June 2007 > _______________________________________________ > http://lists.samurai.com/mailman/listinfo/great-loop > > To modify your Great-Loop subscription options (change email address, > unsubscribe, etc.) go to: > http://lists.samurai.com/mailman/options/great-loop