Leonidas
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
I know I could find this info on the web, something I usually enjoy doing, but I'm looking for a shortcut. Plus, this group always amazes me with how well it responds to all sorts of questions.
My wife volunteered me I volunteered to be the webmaster for a parent organization at my son's school. Simple stuff really, just posting information about fundraising events and how parents and students can volunteer to help pull off an event. The school maintains a website and they allow us to post our info there - but everything has to be sent to a liaison employee there. Our information is not a priority for the school, plus we've worked our way through three liaison people before we got one who was computer literate. It still takes days to get info on the site and our page is buried deep in the school's site. To make it easier I want to create my own site, but I have two issues I don't know much about.
1. There are plenty of free hosts out there (Tripod, Anglefire, etc) but I don't know enough about any of them to decide between them without some test driving. Are the free sites a decent way to go, and if so, does any one stand out as being better? If it is significantly better to go with a host that charges a reasonable fee, then I don't have a problem with doing that. It's just that I would rather not have to draw money out of the non-profits accounts if I don't absolutely have to.
2. I would like to buy our own domain name. I know that there is a way to redirect anyone accessing WWW.HIGHSCHOOLGROUP.ORG to whatever URL my page is at, but I don't have a clue how to do that. Can anyone give me the dummies version, or point me to someplace where I can learn how to do that?
This will be a real simple page - just text, a few simple links to some internal pages and maybe a few outside links. I can do simple coding like that, but choosing a host and doing the domain name redirect are something I have no experience in.
This link is to a page that does exactly what I want to do. In fact, if I could just clone it and change the school name it would be ideal.
http://www.dullesprograd.org/
My wife volunteered me I volunteered to be the webmaster for a parent organization at my son's school. Simple stuff really, just posting information about fundraising events and how parents and students can volunteer to help pull off an event. The school maintains a website and they allow us to post our info there - but everything has to be sent to a liaison employee there. Our information is not a priority for the school, plus we've worked our way through three liaison people before we got one who was computer literate. It still takes days to get info on the site and our page is buried deep in the school's site. To make it easier I want to create my own site, but I have two issues I don't know much about.
1. There are plenty of free hosts out there (Tripod, Anglefire, etc) but I don't know enough about any of them to decide between them without some test driving. Are the free sites a decent way to go, and if so, does any one stand out as being better? If it is significantly better to go with a host that charges a reasonable fee, then I don't have a problem with doing that. It's just that I would rather not have to draw money out of the non-profits accounts if I don't absolutely have to.
2. I would like to buy our own domain name. I know that there is a way to redirect anyone accessing WWW.HIGHSCHOOLGROUP.ORG to whatever URL my page is at, but I don't have a clue how to do that. Can anyone give me the dummies version, or point me to someplace where I can learn how to do that?
This will be a real simple page - just text, a few simple links to some internal pages and maybe a few outside links. I can do simple coding like that, but choosing a host and doing the domain name redirect are something I have no experience in.
This link is to a page that does exactly what I want to do. In fact, if I could just clone it and change the school name it would be ideal.
http://www.dullesprograd.org/