Yesterday I recommended that if you are just starting out creating a personal website that you try Blogger. Today you’re back to read more and and see if I recommend anything else, but mostly just to tell me you’re confused.
Why would a designer recommend a free option?
Great question. Why would a designer recommend a free option?
Because I really don’t want you to have a crappy website, even if you can’t afford (or think you can’t afford) a nice one. And there are options out there that will lead straight to crappy. (MySpace, anyone? LiveJournal? Though LiveJournal is marginally less crappy.)
And even more dangerous than the free offerings are the low-cost or built-in DIY options that come with many web hosting plans. They use SiteBuilder (a real thing) or EazyHTML (I made that one up) and they’re usually just awful. Trust me, you will not be happy with what these offerings are able to make. And you will have made the designer you will eventually hire miserable because they will have to extract the nuggets of your content from the unsavory slurry of execrable code.
Repeat after me: no crappy websites.
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No crappy Websites!
No crappy Websites!
I can’t agree with you more. There are lots of crappy, crappy websites out there. This is why I tend to avoid MySpace and prefer Facebook for my social needs. Facebook keeps people within a framework rather than the crazy HTML laden MySpace profiles.
I would suggest also looking into fairly reasonable web hosts where you can get cheap monthly hosting powered by CPanel and Fantastico enabling the average user to install and configure WordPress, among many other scripts, with a few clicks. Use a third party resource like http://www.webhostingjury.com/ to find good, trustworthy web hosts and ask them about CPanel.