setting up a new website........where to start?

before you figure on anything you should sort out what you want it to say. content will have alot to do with deciding how it will look, be built + structured. imho.

you can do this at godaddy.com for about $9 a month.

best web-building reference page on the 'net.

That's why I'll just point the way while you follow me nose!!!!
www.geocities.com/dukemelaza/spacepoop.html

It's not about direct linking, if that's what you mean.

I want to set up a website, not too ambitious in its scope but one that will allow me to host mp3s of my music for download.

As someone who has recently bought my first computer, my knowledge is anachronistically lacking, and I am having trouble even understanding the basic terms (what does an Internet Service Provider do, for instance), but my music is going well, with more and more paying to see me live, so it seems a good time to get a website going. Someone suggested Myspace to me, but having looked into it I've decided thart it's not right for me. I would like to achieve a more professional look.

Any advice would be very much appreciated!

Henry.

I'm ruling out Myspace, I think, although I realise it's going to be a steep learning curve.

At this stage I'm still not sure of the logistics. In terms of approach, I have an idea how it might work, but acknowledge it might be wide of the reality. Is it, for example, ever the case that an artist agrees to pay a one off fee to someone to construct their website, and then they take on the maintenance? This is what I thought I might do, after embarking on a crash course in html. Do artists usually set up their own websites?

Obviously I have no idea just what you want, how fancy you want it to look, what you want it to do, how much of it there will be, so it's hard to say too much. I built my own website last summer (with a bit of help from Dreamweaver) and graphically it is fairly simple, because my graphic design skills are slight, but everyone tells me it looks good. Functionally it's very simple - the odd tooltip/hint is about as advanced as I've bothered with. It now runs to around 200 pages, with plenty more to come. I did this without anything but very basic HTML knowledge to start.

Ok, I gues this is as good as any other website related thread. I'm trying to set up SimpleViewer plugin for WordPress. I managed... only the frigging pictures don't show up. Is anyone familiar with Simple Viewer and/or could figure out what the FUCK I am doing wrong?

I always break out the dirty dictionary when I'm in HTML trouble. Argh shit fuck grrr.

HELP? :-(

This is a very lame question, but I want to create a "personal" webpage, and I don't know what resources are available these days.

I have neither a domain name nor a host for this. I'd like to have a domain name for it, you know something like cornsilo.com or whatever. I'd also like to be able to work directly using (like) OS X terminal to work with my html. Though I gather there are other web development tools nowadays, I don't care too much, I'm an academic, no one expects or wants animations and the like (rip geocities). I want to be able to host some PDFs.

Does anyone here have advice on what to do, to do this in 2017? I used to just use my university's sites, but french universities aren't as well set up for this as american ones are. I'd prefer to avoid free hosting services since I doubt they're supple enough to do what I want & I don't want to be forced to use ads. I also don't just want a blog.

squarespace.com dude