Fey Wray ([info]pixiesnakes) wrote,
@ 2008-06-30 16:40:00
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tribe is down, web design questions
I wanted to blog on tribe, but the site seems to be down.

I'm working on a project that requires a website, but I have no desire to invest any money in it. I was just going to use a wordpress blog. I don't need any fancy design work, and I really can't afford to pay a web designer. So I go in to set up a wordpress blog hosted by wordpress and I learn enough CSS to change the colors and add some graphics. It turns out that if you want to customize the CSS on a wordpress hosted blog you have to pay $15. It isn't unreasonable, but if I'm going to spend any money I should consider more options. What do you all think is best for the ultra cheap and lazy?

A. Just pay the $15 and have whateverblogname.wordpress.com with the colors and graphics I like
B. Get a real domain name and hosting and stick wordpress on that site. Not sure of the cost, but I think I can customize wordpress for free and I'll have my own domain name
C. Forget wordpress and pay the money for hosting and web design.

In other news I am feeling tremendously better. Not sure exactly what it was that made me sick, but it seems like it was not a side effect of my medicine.



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[info]twostepsfwd
2008-07-01 12:35 am UTC (link)
I'm dealing with this too, with an upcoming project. I think I will just use Yahoo to host as well as for domain registration, which will result in having access to customizable version of Wordpress (The one you normally pay for) plus my own domain name and hosting and other tools. But that does cost a little bit...

I like Wordpress so far, but it is frustrating the limitations when you dont' want to pay for it.

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[info]isara
2008-07-01 03:02 am UTC (link)
doing lots of yelling and screaming about this myself today and I'm voting for option A or B. Don't be reliant on a web designer and adopting some sort of CMS (Wordpress, Joomla, something else) might save you a lot of headache down the road if you want to add things to the site or make changes.

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[info]tadziu
2008-07-01 03:46 am UTC (link)
Yay for health.

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