[kjherstin]

I am not very good with the internet but moving to the Netherlands has made my life difficult as I have no job. So I have decided to set up an online store to sell some graphic recourses and what nots but I need your help.

Where can I get a nice domain or free website. Well actually I do have SE Goodie's server which NevilleX so nicely gave me which I can use but I want to be able to set up a nice shop site with maybe a blog or something and of course a gallery for my art works.


Can anyone help me?

*dreaming of a kjherstin.com site*

and I can't do much coding either

This post has been edited by kjherstin: 29 August 2008 - 12:01 PM

[photographer]

freewebs is a nice free host, but you'll get a xxx.freewebs.com domain + hardly any options for layouts...


I have my own website myw580i.eu and it's hosted by Strato (the best host) for 7€ each month with domain name included (.com .eu .nl .biz .whatever)

EDIT: Coding is not needed, you can use joomla for your webpage (like I did, you'll get a blog and a downloads section can be added) BUT it's not a shop xD
I'm not really into online shops but Im sure there is some free software for shops.

This post has been edited by Photographer: 29 August 2008 - 12:03 PM

[mucha_wan]

im actually looking forward for the same thing as kjherstin..
rite now im in my year of my study n ive got to manage a website (which is should be an online shops) for my final project..
but i dont know where to find a free web domain n web hosting for the assignment..




@kjerstin,
sorry for not helping since i also dont have the idea about free web domain n stuffs..

This post has been edited by mucha_wan: 29 August 2008 - 01:49 PM

[thugz mafia]

freewebs is great!! you can have a kjherstin.webs.com domain, plus they've also introduced a shopping store optin which you can put in your site!! and you dont have to know any coding at all!! pretty sweet!!

[Reversedhex]

kjherstin, on 2008-08-29 12:58, said:

the Netherlands has made my life difficult as I have no job.

how come you cant find a job in holland?

anyway some servers like freewebs have site templates so you only have to personelize it....

[kjherstin]

Reversedhex, on 2008-08-29 15:42, said:

how come you cant find a job in holland?

anyway some servers like freewebs have site templates so you only have to personelize it....

They just say I don't have work experience. I have been turned down too many times, I went into a depression. Now I am learning Dutch at high school so working at home is the best solution.

At the moment I have a portfolio site at: http://kjherstin.segoodies.com so I do "have" a free server, I just don't know any coding and how to set up an online store. It was hard enough getting my portfolio up but a nice guy at deviantart put up that code to share with others. As for kjherstin.com, I will purchase that in the future

This post has been edited by kjherstin: 29 August 2008 - 02:21 PM

[Reversedhex]

thats to bad
look here you can buy a pre made web store

This post has been edited by Reversedhex: 29 August 2008 - 06:38 PM

[kjherstin]

I have tried all those mentioned but I don't really like them for an online shop. Freewebs has not one decent template. i don't really like their interface and the New Zealand site gave me a server error twice...not promising. I guess I know I can google for one but it would be nice to know if someone has actually set up an online shop and suggest some really good ones.

I don't want to spend money initially. It has to be free

[Reversedhex]

how about this?

[KrX]

I personally would go for paid ones. Usually, if you get a good paid e-commerce site, they will include everything needed, the web security certificate used by browsers and servers to encrypt data so that confidential information (credit card numbers, etc.) can not be eaten up by hackers on the way to their destination.

However, those don't come cheap. A good one in Singapore costs about SGD$600, with 256-bit AES encryption.

You should also decide on the payment method; if you're not going for those credit card type of stuff, you can leave the encryption and get them to mail or some similar form of contact to you.
Or you can just paypal...

[Wally_Dog]

You can use www.110mb.com... they offer about 3GB storage, lots of bandwidth, easy to install scripts (just click add, and boom! done). Then you can fill out ads for a free domain name from www.domainlagoon.com... they are actually legit, I used a free domain from them for 2 years, and they forgot to cancel it and gave me 3 years. Also, you can do that stuff through 110mb.com. If you ever need any help with anything, you can use 110mb.com's message board to ask questions... they are VERY helpful.

(I have used everything mentioned above, so it DOES work)

[KrX]

Yes, my friend used to use that as well, he gave it two thumbs up.

[devilwasabi]

You can use .blogspot.com too, and use this blog as "blogshop"

[KrX]

devilwasabi, on 2008-11-18 11:37, said:

You can use .blogspot.com too, and use this blog as "blogshop"

You cannot do e-commerce with a blogshop.

[lawrencep93]

.co.nr you can get free domains but they are .co.nr

[KrX]

lawrencep93, on 2008-11-24 19:15, said:

.co.nr you can get free domains but they are .co.nr

http://freedomain.co.nr/ to be more exact.

Just the domain though. No webspace and such.