Go Daddy
I set this website up back in April on a hunch that we'd be moving out here. I acted at work as if I might not take the job if offered, but I was highly motivated and would have come out here for a pay cut of about 15%. Fortunately, I didn't have to do that.
I went to godaddy.com to set it up.
What godaddy lacks in user interface and efficient site design (it takes about 10 clicks to get to where I can type an entry, about 5 clicks to load a photo, and about 5 clicks to publish a post, plus the spell checker gives you no context, so I usually don't know what word is intended to put there) they make up for in customer service.
I couldn't get the blog page running, and had almost given up when someone called me and asked how it's going. I said not too well, actually, and she walked me through fixing it, with no noticeable rush to move on to the next customer. Usually phone support people seem to be paid by the number of people they talk to in a day and can't wait to get you off the phone.
Anyway, I've been really happy with godaddy, even if it is kind of clunky. Someday I'll expand this into a proper web site with multiple pages. I bought two years of service, so it should be around another year and a half at least.
I went to godaddy.com to set it up.
What godaddy lacks in user interface and efficient site design (it takes about 10 clicks to get to where I can type an entry, about 5 clicks to load a photo, and about 5 clicks to publish a post, plus the spell checker gives you no context, so I usually don't know what word is intended to put there) they make up for in customer service.
I couldn't get the blog page running, and had almost given up when someone called me and asked how it's going. I said not too well, actually, and she walked me through fixing it, with no noticeable rush to move on to the next customer. Usually phone support people seem to be paid by the number of people they talk to in a day and can't wait to get you off the phone.
Anyway, I've been really happy with godaddy, even if it is kind of clunky. Someday I'll expand this into a proper web site with multiple pages. I bought two years of service, so it should be around another year and a half at least.
I found the service pretty awful at first, at least in regards to the features of the software. It's noticeably improved over the last year though, so hopefully they will continue to develop it. I believe they support CSS pages now, which is where you can really begin to customize things and make it look pretty. Of course, since my web design course didn't teach me that, I still have no idea how to accomplish that task. You might also try e-mailing posts in, although I've not tried that service either.
I wonder what Adrienne does to post her entries.
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I wonder that too.
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How do you upload video, Chuck?
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Hm, well. There's a story.
I leased my URL through GoDaddy, but I did not love their website hosting options at the time and wound up going with LISHost.org, a service that caters to librarians. That turned out to be a good decision, because the guy who runs it is smart and nice and helpful. Whenever I email him with a problem (which isn't all that often), he usually gets back to me within a half hour.
The site itself is kind of another thing. I run my blog on Moveable Type, which was The Bomb when I started my website, but now it's kind of eh. Mostly it's a pain in the butt to incorporate pictures. If I started a blog today, I'd use Wordpress. I want to convert my blog to Wordpress, but what I really want is for someone else to do this for me since I don't really know how or care to learn. This would probably cost money, which I don't have. You see my conundrum. Anyway, when I bought Moveable Type, they installed it on the server for me because I clearly had no idea how to do that, either. Once that was done, I figured out how to use a template and did some really rudimentary customization--and voila! Watat.com! This process took about a week of all my spare time. Of course, this was four years ago when blogs were kind of new, so everything's different now.
Like Chuck, I'd really like to make watat.com more a site. I have ideas about what I want to do with this information-wise, but I really, really don't want to go through the process of doing major design work myself. It involves this whole set of skills I just don't have. I've looked into classes like the one Jeffrey took, and I always suspect that I'm not really going to get all I need out of them--and I'm not really sure I want to invest that kind of time. I want to write, not design.
Is that a good answer?
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Jeffrey, sorry, I just noticed your video question today, I link to the video with the Insert File feature.
Adrienne, that suffices for now
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