I've had the idea of starting a site dedicated to the random projects I work on in my spare time for a while. Only recently though did I start asking around and doing some research about what exactly I wanted. Most of all, I was hoping to find an easy way to share all the stuff I learn along the way while working on things. It's rare that I'm working on something and cannot find the answer with some googling, but finding everything I need together in one spot is fairly uncommon. Almost every project teaches me something new, so i am just hoping to compile all that helpful knowledge in one area.
What I had in mind was basically like Evernote, but with a domain. After some research, I finally happened upon Postach.io, which looks exactly like what I wanted. By time I saw this, I had already seen some of the other options and was fairly intrigued in those as well. I checked out some web hosting sites, but when I started going through the process, it look like more work than I was anticipating. I'm happy to learn new code, but would rather concentrate on code other than HTML, CSS, Java for the time being.
Here are some links I found that was helpful for web hosting.
http://lifehacker.com/5911651/five-best-web-hosting-companies
http://reviews.cnet.com/web-hosting/
Here are my specifications.
After seeing a demo of Weebly, I like the idea of drag and drop design. I learned long ago that I'm not very good with aesthetics, so having some themes I could choose from seemed helpful. Wordpress was recommended as well, but I was slightly turned off by the a-la-cart upgrades. More googling provided more blogging providers, but all seemed fairly similar, and I was getting tired of researching...
Weebly was cheaper providing more features, so I went with that. Through the sign up process of getting my own domain, I was disappointed at how much a custom domain turned out to be, but oh well, it's mine for a couple of years now.
Let the adventure into the world wide web begin. I'm only 8 to 10 years behind the time?....
What I had in mind was basically like Evernote, but with a domain. After some research, I finally happened upon Postach.io, which looks exactly like what I wanted. By time I saw this, I had already seen some of the other options and was fairly intrigued in those as well. I checked out some web hosting sites, but when I started going through the process, it look like more work than I was anticipating. I'm happy to learn new code, but would rather concentrate on code other than HTML, CSS, Java for the time being.
Here are some links I found that was helpful for web hosting.
http://lifehacker.com/5911651/five-best-web-hosting-companies
http://reviews.cnet.com/web-hosting/
Here are my specifications.
- Cheap
- Custom domain
- Easy to use
- Good looking templates
After seeing a demo of Weebly, I like the idea of drag and drop design. I learned long ago that I'm not very good with aesthetics, so having some themes I could choose from seemed helpful. Wordpress was recommended as well, but I was slightly turned off by the a-la-cart upgrades. More googling provided more blogging providers, but all seemed fairly similar, and I was getting tired of researching...
Weebly was cheaper providing more features, so I went with that. Through the sign up process of getting my own domain, I was disappointed at how much a custom domain turned out to be, but oh well, it's mine for a couple of years now.
Let the adventure into the world wide web begin. I'm only 8 to 10 years behind the time?....
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