Website design - Developers

Im a complete novice in web designing so im thinking of using sites such as google sites or go daddy to create a website for my ngo. Can you guys recommend any web designing sites that include domain name and hosting(ex.go daddy)? should i just use go daddy?

Us [url]http://www.gandi.net/[/url] instead.

[QUOTE=oakwalk1310;32058497]Im a complete novice in web designing so im thinking of using sites such as google sites or go daddy to create a website for my ngo. Can you guys recommend any web designing sites that include domain name and hosting(ex.go daddy)? should i just use go daddy?[/QUOTE] If you're making a small site, i recommend using lithiumhosting they are great and it's only $1/month $10/year.

[QUOTE=myalt22;32058547]Us [url]http://www.gandi.net/[/url] instead.[/QUOTE] is this site legit? also do you know of any site making sites in the us? [editline]2nd September 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=zzlawlzz;32058553]If you're making a small site, i recommend using lithiumhosting they are great and it's only $1/month $10/year.[/QUOTE] so this is just a hosting site right? i can't design a website on it?

[QUOTE=oakwalk1310;32058784]is this site legit? also do you know of any site making sites in the us? [editline]2nd September 2011[/editline] so this is just a hosting site right? i can't design a website on it?[/QUOTE] Yes, just hosting, they can also be your domain registrar for another $10/year I think.

So after designing a website (where should i do this???) i can get hosting from lithiumhosting right?

I personally recommend FanaticalVPS, since they are the most trust worthy host, aside from Xenon and (before they fucked up) Brohoster.

Don't recommend a VPS to someone who still needs to learn how websites work lol. OP: You don't design website on another website. I learned a long time ago so I'm not sure where the best beginner tutorials are now, but google around for HTML, CSS, and basic design theory tutorials. [B]Especially[/B] the design theory ones. Don't fall in to the trap that a lot of beginners fall in to thinking that knowing HTML and CSS makes you a designer, because it doesn't.

[QUOTE=xXMelissaRXx;32059003]I personally recommend FanaticalVPS, since they are the most trust worthy host, aside from Xenon and (before they fucked up) Brohoster.[/QUOTE] What do you mean by most trustworthy? Why should he not trust lithiumhosting?

At a quick glance Kmart, are these good theory tutorials? [url]http://webdesign.tutsplus.com/sessions/web-design-theory/[/url]

Just going off the titles, yeah, there's probably a bit of useful information in them. One thing that will really help is training yourself to think critically all the time. If you see a design that you like or that you feel is good, ask yourself why it's good. I've learned a lot more by doing that than reading about design theory, but once you understand the basic principles it becomes a lot easier to do the critical thinking thing too.

The thing is I need to make the website within a week and I was thinking of using godaddy to make the site and get it running before school started. I need hosting, website (the design), and a domain name. Is there any reason i shouldn't use godaddy?

[QUOTE=oakwalk1310;32071950]The thing is I need to make the website within a week and I was thinking of using godaddy to make the site and get it running before school started. I need hosting, website (the design), and a domain name. Is there any reason i shouldn't use godaddy?[/QUOTE] I wasn't aware godaddy had a WYSIWYG website 'maker'.

If you're just looking to have a website for your organisation and not to start doing web design, just buy a nice template for $30 and customise it, or just get someone to make it for you. It's not worth learning web development just to make your one website, because everyone's first website is utter shit and your time would be better spent working on your organisation rather than the website for it.

[QUOTE=Alcapwne;32074816]If you're just looking to have a website for your organisation and not to start doing web design, just buy a nice template for $30 and customise it, or just get someone to make it for you. It's not worth learning web development just to make your one website, because everyone's first website is utter shit and your time would be better spent working on your organisation rather than the website for it.[/QUOTE] I was thinking of hiring sombody but i don't know.... where could i buy a template, and what are your opinions on godaddy??

godaddy is just a domain name provider, you'd also have to get someone to host it

couldn't this work design: [url]http://www.godaddy.com/hosting/website-builder.aspx?isc=gsfnsk04&ci=9028[/url] hosting: [url]http://www.godaddy.com/hosting/web-hosting.aspx?isc=gsfnsk04&ci=8971[/url]

[QUOTE=oakwalk1310;32076322]couldn't this work design: [url]http://www.godaddy.com/hosting/website-builder.aspx?isc=gsfnsk04&ci=9028[/url] hosting: [url]http://www.godaddy.com/hosting/web-hosting.aspx?isc=gsfnsk04&ci=8971[/url][/QUOTE] The first link comes with hosting bundled so the second link would not be needed.

[QUOTE=oakwalk1310;32076114]I was thinking of hiring sombody but i don't know.... where could i buy a template, and what are your opinions on godaddy??[/QUOTE] You could buy a template from [url]www.themeforest.com[/url] There are lots of great wordpress templates there and the best thing about them is that they look like proper websites rather than blogs, but they're as easy to update as blogs because it's all done in wordpress which is sort of like a blogging platform Godaddy seem alright to me, there's no way they got that big by being bad so...

I would advise you to not use godaddy's shit hosting but their domain services are fine.

Ok. But if you do want a website use [URL="http://vistaprint.com"]http://vistaprint.com[/URL]

[QUOTE=sunzaud;32110460]Ok. But if you do want a website use [URL="http://vistaprint.com"]http://vistaprint.com[/URL][/QUOTE] One of the worst rip offs I have seen in a while.

Not sure if this is what you have in mind, but I'd recommend using WordPress actually. If you need good themes, have a look at ElegantThemes.com. You'll need to get hosting elsewhere though, but pretty much every shared host ever supports WordPress.