Website Advice needed, please

Pine Cone was so upset that no one was posting his adventures on the net
that I decided to turn his earthstink website totally over to him and
his varied fantasy life.

Well, we have a problem. Earthstink has a new site builder, and the
d*mn thing not only hates me, but refuses to work with me at all. I had
the second page almost perfect, all I had to do was shift the links and
runner up and I would be done. WRONG. I shifted the links up and the
whole thing went totally out of kilter and now looks nasty. I put the
links back where I had them, and it is still nasty. I want a web site
I, a total novice at web building, can work with, make attractive, honor
the great Cap'n Pine Cone, and not have to pay for.

YUP, I'm cheap. So, can you help me? Can you recommend web hosting
sites that I can work with, without any training in web design? Can you
help me get Pine Cone back on the water before he tears my eyes out?

Thanks,

Pam S. beleaguered

On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 16:22:19 -0700, Tanada wrote
(in message ):

Pine Cone was so upset that no one was posting his adventures on the net
that I decided to turn his earthstink website totally over to him and
his varied fantasy life.

Well, we have a problem. Earthstink has a new site builder, and the
d*mn thing not only hates me, but refuses to work with me at all. I had
the second page almost perfect, all I had to do was shift the links and
runner up and I would be done. WRONG. I shifted the links up and the
whole thing went totally out of kilter and now looks nasty. I put the
links back where I had them, and it is still nasty. I want a web site
I, a total novice at web building, can work with, make attractive, honor
the great Cap'n Pine Cone, and not have to pay for.

YUP, I'm cheap. So, can you help me? Can you recommend web hosting
sites that I can work with, without any training in web design? Can you
help me get Pine Cone back on the water before he tears my eyes out?

Thanks,

Pam S. beleaguered

I used the Trellix Earthlink provided which I guess is what you used. I
had to use my old Windows machine which I don't have anymore (sent it off
to a nephew). I am trying to find something like you asked for the Mac.
I'm not real interested in learning HTML I just want to put some pictures
of the cats up.

John,

Actually, learning HTML is quite easy and I find it much more rewarding to
tinker around with html instead of the publishers... but I will say that
it's much easier to layout picture pages (%picture pages picture pages open
up your picture pages...%) using the publishers.

Stacey (who used a really good online tutorial for html programming... I'll
see if I can find it)
"John Biltz" wrote in message
thlink.net...
On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 16:22:19 -0700, Tanada wrote
(in message ):

Pine Cone was so upset that no one was posting his adventures on the net
that I decided to turn his earthstink website totally over to him and
his varied fantasy life.

Well, we have a problem. Earthstink has a new site builder, and the
d*mn thing not only hates me, but refuses to work with me at all. I had
the second page almost perfect, all I had to do was shift the links and
runner up and I would be done. WRONG. I shifted the links up and the
whole thing went totally out of kilter and now looks nasty. I put the
links back where I had them, and it is still nasty. I want a web site
I, a total novice at web building, can work with, make attractive, honor
the great Cap'n Pine Cone, and not have to pay for.

YUP, I'm cheap. So, can you help me? Can you recommend web hosting
sites that I can work with, without any training in web design? Can you
help me get Pine Cone back on the water before he tears my eyes out?

Thanks,

Pam S. beleaguered

I used the Trellix Earthlink provided which I guess is what you used. I
had to use my old Windows machine which I don't have anymore (sent it off
to a nephew). I am trying to find something like you asked for the Mac.
I'm not real interested in learning HTML I just want to put some pictures
of the cats up.

"Tanada" wrote in message
...
Pine Cone was so upset that no one was posting his adventures on the net
that I decided to turn his earthstink website totally over to him and
his varied fantasy life.

Well, we have a problem. Earthstink has a new site builder, and the
d*mn thing not only hates me, but refuses to work with me at all. I had
the second page almost perfect, all I had to do was shift the links and
runner up and I would be done. WRONG. I shifted the links up and the
whole thing went totally out of kilter and now looks nasty. I put the
links back where I had them, and it is still nasty. I want a web site
I, a total novice at web building, can work with, make attractive, honor
the great Cap'n Pine Cone, and not have to pay for.

YUP, I'm cheap. So, can you help me? Can you recommend web hosting
sites that I can work with, without any training in web design? Can you
help me get Pine Cone back on the water before he tears my eyes out?

Most likely your copy of Windows came with Front Page Express.

This is a web page designer. I don't personally think much of it, but it
does work.

Design your page, save it as per Front Page Express's instructions, then
upload to Eartlink or wherver you want to put it.

Good luck.

Yowie

Yowie wrote:
"Tanada" wrote in message
...
Pine Cone was so upset that no one was posting his adventures on the
net that I decided to turn his earthstink website totally over to
him and his varied fantasy life.

Well, we have a problem. Earthstink has a new site builder, and the
d*mn thing not only hates me, but refuses to work with me at all.

You might try Angelfire; they have a basic editor, for beginners, which you
can always convert to pure HTML as your knowledge grows; it lets you chose
background color, text size, alignment, add pix, etc. I found it really
helpful when I was first starting out. I know there are other free web
servers like Geocities and Tripod, but I've only ever had the Angelfire one,
so I don't know how the others work, though I imagine they're probably
fairly similar.

Good luck, we'll be anxiously awaiting the new web site!

Ann

--

http://www.angelfire.com/ca/bewtifulfreak

"Tanada" wrote in message
...
Pine Cone was so upset that no one was posting his adventures on the net
that I decided to turn his earthstink website totally over to him and
his varied fantasy life.

Well, we have a problem. Earthstink has a new site builder, and the
d*mn thing not only hates me, but refuses to work with me at all. I had
the second page almost perfect, all I had to do was shift the links and
runner up and I would be done. WRONG. I shifted the links up and the
whole thing went totally out of kilter and now looks nasty. I put the
links back where I had them, and it is still nasty. I want a web site
I, a total novice at web building, can work with, make attractive, honor
the great Cap'n Pine Cone, and not have to pay for.

YUP, I'm cheap. So, can you help me? Can you recommend web hosting
sites that I can work with, without any training in web design? Can you
help me get Pine Cone back on the water before he tears my eyes out?

Thanks,

Pam S. beleaguered

what about Pine Cone starting his own Yahoo group, like meankitty has? He
and his colleagues could post their stories and pictures on a group quite
easily - and it wouldn't cost a dime.
Brenda

Tanada wrote:

YUP, I'm cheap. So, can you help me? Can you recommend web hosting
sites that I can work with, without any training in web design? Can you
help me get Pine Cone back on the water before he tears my eyes out?

Thanks,

Pam S. beleaguered

Pam,

I've been pleased with Lycos (www.lycos.com). I use Netscape composer to
write the page and then upload to lycos.com and have had no trouble getting
a mirror upload. I do know html and could write a page using whatever
program is available but I enjoy the ease with Netscape composer and Lycos.

Julie

On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 23:22:19 GMT, Tanada wrote:

Pine Cone was so upset that no one was posting his adventures on the net
that I decided to turn his earthstink website totally over to him and
his varied fantasy life.

Well, we have a problem. Earthstink has a new site builder, and the
d*mn thing not only hates me, but refuses to work with me at all. I had
the second page almost perfect, all I had to do was shift the links and
runner up and I would be done. WRONG. I shifted the links up and the
whole thing went totally out of kilter and now looks nasty. I put the
links back where I had them, and it is still nasty. I want a web site
I, a total novice at web building, can work with, make attractive, honor
the great Cap'n Pine Cone, and not have to pay for.

YUP, I'm cheap. So, can you help me? Can you recommend web hosting
sites that I can work with, without any training in web design? Can you
help me get Pine Cone back on the water before he tears my eyes out?

Thanks,

Pam S. beleaguered

Pam, don't know what you're using, but if you're on a PC and have
Netscape, try using Netscape Composer. That's what I've used for my
four websites, and it works very easily for the most part -- very
little knowledge of anything other than some basic design stuff
involved. You can upload to any site with WS Ftp (forget the full
name), a little program that is free if your site is non-commercial.

Hope that helps!

Ginger-lyn