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Fred Layman
From:
Springfield, Missouri USA
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Posted 30 Dec 2000 4:27 pm |
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| I'm giving some thought to setting up a web page. Some of the content I have thought about including is: bio, pictures of some guitars I have built/owned, some how-to-do-it help short articles, tabs of gospel, country, pop numbers, and maybe sell a few items now and then. What service would you fellows that have a site recommend (e.g., AOL Hometown, etc.) and what services would you suggest avoiding and why? Thanks for your suggestions and recommendations. |
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Jon Light
From:
Saugerties, NY
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Posted 30 Dec 2000 4:45 pm
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Hi Fred. Although Angelfire, the provider of free space for my StartUp SteeL page has changed its policy and now blocks the remote linking that used to enable my posting of photos on the forum, it has one property that I really like--you can choose whether to have advertising on a banner on your page or on a pop-up. I HATE POP-UPS!!! So I allow the banner on top and simply start my page down far enough to get past the ad. (See below):
StartUp Steel
On the other hand, sites like Geocities are thoroughly annoying with pop-ups every time you click anything on a page.
Although MSN, my ISP, provides free space (and does allow remote linking) it uses some sort of proprietary architecture that is dopey and incompatible with the precious few internet tricks I have learned.
Hope this is useful in starting your thinking on this.
BTW--Angelfire is now offering something like 30MB of free space which, for your purposes, is huge. |
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b0b
From:
Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Posted 30 Dec 2000 6:12 pm
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Lori will soon be offering web sites for steel guitarists at a reasonable cost. We will host them on the Forum server. This project has been on hold while we switched servers, but we should have everything ready to go by the end of January.
Right now I need a vacation! 
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Graham
From:
Marmora, Ontario, Canada
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CrowBear Schmitt
From:
Ariege, - PairO'knees, - France
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Posted 31 Dec 2000 12:54 am
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GO for it B0b, + have a Real Good One !!!!
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Jerry Wright
From:
Leeds,Al. US
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Jim Cohen
From:
Philadelphia, PA
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Posted 31 Dec 2000 12:46 pm
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I've been very happy with bigstep.com, which offers free web hosting. You can put up lots of photos and text, but not sound files (yet), so I have to park those someplace else and then link to them from my site. But it's very easy to use, and you don't have to know any HTML.
If you want to check it out, visit www.jimcohen.com |
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Richard Sinkler
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aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 2 Jan 2001 12:22 pm
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NO VACATIONS B0B. Every time you go on vacation, something bad happens.
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Carter D10 8p/10k
Richard Sinkler BS, www.sinkler.com
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Les Pierce
From:
Shreveport, LA
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winston
From:
Frankfort, Kentucky 40601
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Posted 3 Jan 2001 1:18 pm
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| Now Fred, I COULD tell you some stuff but you would rightfully assume I don't know what I am talking about so I will just say when you get your site up and running let me know so I can visit and maybe learn something. |
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Fred Layman
From:
Springfield, Missouri USA
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Posted 3 Jan 2001 8:28 pm
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| Winston, you already know more that I want you to know, including all those notes and chords I missed while you were backing me on bass. |
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Herb Steiner
From:
Spicewood TX 78669
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Posted 4 Jan 2001 12:53 am
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Fred
I use bigstep.com to host my website. It is very easy to use, easy to update, they offer optional domain registration ($35/year), almost all services are free, they help in getting your site listed on search engines/directories, etc. More than I can answer here. Go to bigstep.com to find out the whole thing.
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Herb's Steel Guitar Pages
[This message was edited by Herb Steiner on 04 January 2001 at 12:55 AM.] |
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joe wright
From:
Jackson, Michigan
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Posted 8 Jan 2001 8:28 am
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I also sell web space of varying sizes. I offer a 50 meg site, 3 gig transfer & more for $19.95 a month.
I also offer a 800 meg site, unlimited everything for $39.95 to steel players!
I'm setting up the sales site at:
http:www.joewrightproductions.com
thanks...joe |
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Graham
From:
Marmora, Ontario, Canada
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Lori Smith
From:
Cloverdale, California, USA
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Posted 9 Jan 2001 1:50 pm
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We're very close to offering our new website design services exclusively for Forum members only. As b0b said, the priority is to have the new server up and running without problems. Until the official launch, here are some of the terms:
- We design your web page for $50.00/per page. This includes hosting on our server free of charge.
- Your URL will be something like: yourname.steelguitarforum.com
- The cost includes up to four pictures per page.
- Unlimited links and text per page.
- Subsequent changes or updates after publishing to the Internet are billed at our normal hourly rate.
- This offer pertains to personal home pages only.
If you have questions before the official announcement, just email me.
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Lori Smith - email: penguinaddict@hotmail.com - Web Page Design - PictureHost.net
[This message was edited by Lori Smith on 09 January 2001 at 04:01 PM.] |
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