Tech Help!!! (trying to make website)

[Chief]

I am a school teacher who wants to create a cheap website for my classroom. Nothing professional looking, just supply lists, what's happening, a few education links, etc. So I went to Godaddy and bought a domain name for a year for $1.

So now I know I've got to find a free or very cheap web hosting service and then create my web page. Both of these are my problem because I don't quite know what I'm doing or where to look. I have took a class on Microsoft Word (2003) and know how to create a web-page from that. I don't know if that can used on a hosting service?

Anyways, any help will be appreciated.

[celticmaestro]

wish i could help you there chief, i'm sure someone here will be able to sort you out.

[seeingreen34]

I don't know about making a webpage from scratch or of any free web hosting services but I suggest trying Google sites. It's free with a Google account and you don't need to know html or anything. Here's the link. https://sites.google.com/ There are example sites down the bottom. It looks to be able to do what you want to do with your site.

[Chief]

Well I got it to work. I found a free hosting site at http://www.officelive.com/?xid=727EA56B-8FCC-4127-9629-BA312C349539&WT.srch=1. They excepted my Go Daddy domain name and after about a hour of trying to figure out how to point one to the other, I was good. Because it was Microsoft, I was fairly familiar with most things when designing the site. TP's to Maestro and Seeing Green for trying to help.

[dark_lord]

ur best bet would be to PM the great one, bob day.  that guy knows everything!

[Bob Day]

ur best bet would be to PM the great one, bob day.  that guy knows everything!

Sort of like the Wizard of Oz, huh? LOL!

Chief, if still need some help configuring that domain, email me at webmaster@celticsblog.com . Basically you just need nameservers and their IP addresses from Live Office. That info goes in the Domain Manager for your domain at GoDaddy. If Live Office doesn't support domain names we can find you another spot on the web that does if you would like.

[ChampKind]

If you don't mind putting a little investment in, you can go buy Adobe Dreamweaver to make your website nice and pretty for minimal cost.  It's pretty easy to pick up on, and has lots of easy to use features.  However, since this is just for a classroom exercise, Word could be your best bet (and your best shot to get the kids designing stuff too).  Hope this helps.