Re: Promote your own website
 

My latest effort - no laughing at the subject though. Must go, nurse will be here for me soon....
www.elisaportelli.co.uk

Re: Promote your own website
 

I've just added another section to the art appreciation section at my website.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/cytherean1/index.html

Incog.

Re: Promote your own website
 

I am building this website for my college course and would like some constructive critisum... It was built using notepad today.
limo2carriage

I would also like your views on the domain name I have used limo2carriage others I had shortlisted were:
Limo4hire, Specialy4you, 4specialtimes, 4thebigday, urcarriage, and limo2carriage. (Limo4hire.co.uk wasn't available) I went with limo2carriage.co.uk

I will continue to add the pages but might have to move it to ntls webspace if it looks like its going over my limit.

Re: Promote your own website
 

Good work Kitty. :)

How about showing the carriage as it would appear on the day.... with the horses as well. :)

Re: Promote your own website
 

Hmm, OK, here goes....

MOD EDIT (Tez): Link removed as doesn't exist anymore


The main thing it has so far is my digicam photo gallery, plus there's a few other bits.

Still needs a lot of work, plus it would help if I actually knew anything about web design, LOL.

Also may not be accessible to everyone yet, as NTL's DNS servers don't always seem too happy with it (yet other DNS servers have no problem...Turn3 say they are going to talk with NTL about that though)


MOD EDIT (Tez): OK, I've taken that link out as the site no longer exists there. I have now changed hosts from T3 to I-Web ( ;) :) ), plus got a new domain name, & am currently sorting the site out..."coming soon"

Re: Promote your own website
 

There are two sections to mine. Both linked to each other from their homepages but here are the seperate URLS as well;

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/boots44

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/boots44/tvidset.html


*Edited to add* Very nice artwork Ingognitas!

Re: Promote your own website
 

I get nothing either!

Re: Promote your own website
 

Agh. Bloody NTL. AFAIK it works fine using any DNS other than theirs (I'm currently using easynet's DNS). I'll have to harrass them again.

Re: Promote your own website
 

Updated and completely redesigned mine :)

http://www.theriverkelvin.co.uk

Re: Promote your own website
 

Same here....

http://www.stusplace.co.uk
It was off-line for months after a mix up with domain transfer, I finaly got it all resolved last night and have started re-building.
Official launch is April 1st (couldn't resist!) and it will be a site dedicated to map making for on-line games.

I am starting off with Battlefield 1942 as I have already made some maps for this & so have a few of my friends. (this includes the Desert Combat mod) I am also including Battlefield Vietnam and Far Cry as these are both new games & come with map editors.

Re: Promote your own website
 

Ahh welcome back Stu. Heres mine

http://www.nicka.demon.co.uk now that ive completely redesigned it it should look better. I also have an Invision Forum. This is free so it will have ads im afraid.

Re: Promote your own website
 

WNA... there should be no adverts with an invisionboard mate.
I've just had a quick look-see at your site & you have a great big banner add slapped in your forum.

If this was part of a deal for you to have IPB set up for you, cool.
If not, are you sure you have to have the ad?

http://www.stusplace.co.uk has an IPB forum with *NO* adds whatsoever.

Re: Promote your own website
 

Im going to pay to get them removed eventually. Im also going to get a bigger online drive (currently 8MB) *Waits for Stuart W to shout at him*

Re: Promote your own website
 

8M?????

OH MY GOD!

Thass the shouting out the way ;)
Do you want me to have a chat with my host?
I get 1Gig of webspace, 5Gig per month bandwidth with:
10 subdomains
10 parked domains
10 FTP accounts
50 e-mail accounts
10 MySQL databases
10 Postgresql databases
Unlimited e-mail forearding
Unlimited e-mail autoresponders
All running on a nice FAST server using Linux with PHP, FrontPage extensions, Pearl, Apache etc. all with a lovely control panel which includes Fantastico!

All that for £50PA!

Admitedly, I go it on a special deal with one of my mates (who happens to be an independant ISP) but I could have a word & see what I can get you ;)

Re: Promote your own website
 

It's a lot cheaper for him to use i-web, you're back then I see, have you stopped sulking then? ;)

Re: Promote your own website
 

I agree Bifta ill go with i web when i get some cash. (Im SKINT). Looking at the packages what would you recommend?

Re: Promote your own website
 

Just to let you know, Im on Iweb as well, found them great....just got the base package though :)

Re: Promote your own website
 

When i get the webspace, I want a vbulletin forum but do i have to pay in $$$?

Re: Promote your own website
 

yes you will have to pay for a vBulleting license, we are currently looking at doing some hosting packages that include a vB license, but this wont be launched for some time yet, (Willie/Web Junkie has more info about this)

KP

Re: Promote your own website
 

Who are i-web?
A quick google came up with a nasty pop-up infested search engine.

(not going to rise to the childish 'sulking' comment.)

Re: Promote your own website
 

i-web host this site, lots of my sites and plenty of other members sites and .. childish? :D What were your reasons for leaving again?

Re: Promote your own website
 

Could I have a link please?
(Again, not rising to it mate ;) )

Re: Promote your own website
 

Main site: http://www.i-websolutions.co.uk/

Deals that KingPhoenix arranged for NTHW members: http://www.i-websolutions.co.uk/nthwwhosting.html

Re: Promote your own website
 

Thanx Tezcatlipoca ;)

[Edit] After a quick look, it would indeed be a cheaper option if you are hosting a basic site with a single forum.

Shame it isn't cheaper for my requirements :(

Re: Promote your own website
 

tell me your requirements, i guarantee to be cheaper :pp

Re: Promote your own website
 

Hello everyone....I introduced my self in the Introductions bit, and here I am, bravely showing off my site(s), or should that be showing myself up....I keep meaning to amalgamate them all on my NTL webspace, one day soon, eh!
My main site was started a couple of years back, to display a bunch of E-Cards I made, and I keep updating it regularly with seasonal stuff, at the moment Easter of course. Mostly kewtsey stuff, some humour as well:
http://www.geocities.com/gigiuk69
I put some of my digital photography on this site, they are all local pix from Manchester from the past year or so:
http://www.geocities.com/fabmanchester
Finally, a site for a few of my stoopid animations and jokes, dancing kittens and such:
http://groups.msn.com/fishchipskittens
Have a look in sometime if you're bored, sign my guestbook if you like anything you see!

Re: Promote your own website
 

Well, I get:
10 subdomains
10 parked domains
10 FTP accounts
50 e-mail accounts
10 MySQL databases
10 Postgresql databases
Unlimited e-mail forearding
Unlimited e-mail autoresponders
SSH access (Linux box)

for my £50PA, of which I use:
7 subdomains
5 parked domains
8 FTP accounts
22 e-mail accounts
4 MySQL DB's
0 Postgresql DB's
6 mail forwarders
4 autoresponders
I also use 2 dedicated mailing lists (using 'mailman')
I'm currently using just over 800M of my space and have already gone through just over a gig of bandwidth this month, so after a brief chat, I am upgrading to 10G webspace with 30G bandwidth...
Getting this for 1 month free, then a total of £65 PA.

If you can beat it, quote me happy :D

(I allready have my domains with 123reg so can re-point to any nameserver ;) )

[EDIT] Whilst I'm at it...

I pay £300per quater (can get £875 per year) for a dedicated Linux server...
P4 2.5G
1G RAM
RedHat distro
Currently running 'Battlefield Vietnam' 20 player server, 'Battlefield 1942' 20 player server and 40 channel TeamSpeak server.
It is on a 100M link and it chews up about 60 - 100G bandwidth per month.

Can you beat it? (admitedly, it's nowt like webhosting, but thought I'd ask ;) )

Re: Promote your own website
 

My host offers
25 subdomains
25 parked domains
25 FTP accounts
Unlimited e-mail accounts
25 MySQL databases/Postgresql databases
Unlimited e-mail forearding
Unlimited e-mail autoresponders

All for 49.99 a year. :)

Re: Promote your own website
 

I'm new to all this and working on the main site... the Flophouse Blog is up and running...the actual Flophouse is a couple of weeks away..


Flophouse Blog

There's a link to the main site...but as you'll see I've got the decorators in...:pp

Re: Promote your own website
 

I would have to know what it is you do with your space, as thats alot of space for a website :confused: But i would probably put you on a reseller package (like many people here) that have a number of sites.


I can do a P4 2.8 1GB DDR 80GB for £93 a month (£79 setup fee applies)


OK, this isnt the place to really be discussing all of this, if your interested, PM me ;)

Re: Promote your own website
 

Dual Xeon 2.0Ghz (Hyperthreading - 4 Virtual CPUs)
1GB DDR RAM
160GB IDE or 73GB SCSI HD
5 IP Addresses
1000GB Transfer
$40 setup, $140/month

P4 2.8G with hyperthreading (512k L2 cache FSB 800)
2GB RAM
120GB Hard Disk x 2
RedHat 9
No Setup Fee
$59.95 per month
(Only problem is Hong Kong)

As you see there are many better deals on the market :)
Just that sometimes you make compromises, sometimes you dont.

Having your own dedicated server is def the way to go though.

Btw im not advertising, just showing some deals that Ive seen around

Re: Promote your own website
 

Just done a revamp of my site still working on the template being used though.
http://www.freetechelp.com

Re: Promote your own website
 

Been revamping the frontpage and Degas part of my site.Had me tearing my hair out as I managed to screw up another part of the site at the same time. :rolleyes: I find the NTL FTP site very peculiar to work with and I have to delete an old page BEFORE I upload a newer version. :mad:

I'm going to work on the Monet,Picasso and Van Gogh sections next and make them simpler.

Incog.

Re: Promote your own website
 

Hmm....

I've now changed domain name & web host (gone with I-Web :) ), & so far have had none of the problems I had before.

So, here goes..... :erm:

www.smokingmirror.co.uk

Not much there at the moment apart from my photo galleries.

Still needs a lot of work, & I still need to think of other things to do with it.

But, well, I'm busy, and lame, and have no web design skills or training, so it could be a long process.

Anyway...

Re: Promote your own website
 

It's another depraved site, courtesy of Alanmelon;

www.shoppingtvbabes.co.uk

Re: Promote your own website
 

Hi,
My site is just about my local area Norwich.

Re: Promote your own website
 

Are you Alan Partridge?

Re: Promote your own website
 

Lots of re-vamping and a split...

www.stusplace.co.uk no longer has Bf map info, it's moved to www.mapediting.co.uk

Re: Promote your own website
 

www.scottyb.co.uk

With laods of retro games for you all (Pacman, Space Invaders etc..)

Re: Promote your own website
 

both not working here :confused:

Re: Promote your own website
 

It's a start...much more to add

http://www.ithelpforum.com - Go have a look !!

Thanks

(-JaS-) :)

Re: Promote your own website
 

Have a look HERE this could be just the place you want to be able to post.

As you can say almost anything you like (within sensible limits) there.
also im thinking of changing over to vb for my little venture into the world of forums.

and i know the theme is crap but its only staying as it is untill the changerover to vb

Re: Promote your own website
 

I need some ways to attract more members to my forum. There is nothing i can do about the ads so it can't be that. I haven't changed any of the categories. So what can i do?

http://s4.invisionfree.com/wayneaustin96

Re: Promote your own website
 

ummm ... keep thinking up ways to bring it up in conversation on other forums? :D ;)

Here, I'll go sign up if it makes your stats look better :)

Re: Promote your own website
 

I signed up too :) Lol, I have a forum as well... and its like getting blood out of a stone to actually make people sign up and talk! My experience with websites, forums, etc. is that you have to spend 99% of your time promoting your project like a maniac... and then, once it becomes successful, cut out most of what you made because it all gets too cluttered!

I wish you the best of luck, because I totally know what it feels like to have made something, spent lots of time on it, and then find no one wants to join in ! :ghugs:

I think another problem as well is getting newbies involved in message boards.. most people have no clue what to do, but, to people like us, its second nature to sign up to a board and start posting. I've started making a really in depth tutorial for my board.. but it's really dull to write, becuase, to me, its too simple. To others, though, the information will be a really steep learning curve.

P

Re: Promote your own website
 

Hi Wayne.

I know you've been trying to encourage new members for a while, and again, I don't want to be negative but there's no point having a forum just for the sake of wanting to admin one, especially when the content and themes are so similar to this site.

As I suggested before, it's incredibly rare to be able to create a successful forum simply on the basis of it's own existence. You need to have a unique theme or content for your website which people actually want to see, then use the forum as an extension of that. If you give people a reason to come to your forum, and give them something to discuss there with likeminded people then you will have more success.

Re: Promote your own website
 

Ahh but you see after taking the advice before i completely changed the categories and forums on the board. :D Edit: i have approved those two accounts who registered.

Re: Promote your own website
 

I admire your perseverance, Wayne, but the problem as I see it is this:

If you promote your forums at an existing forum (such as CF) which already has an established userbase & has very similar (& very active) forums to the ones you have created, then I can't see how you would really hope to gain many new members.

When people, while browsing a forum they regularly use (e.g. CF) see your forum link & visit it, and see that it has similar (but unused) forums, I'd think that most would be unlikely to sign-up & use your forum too - as they can already discuss Current Affairs, Computers, Games & so on here (for example).

If that makes any sense...

As Alan said, attracting members to a forum can be very difficult.

You need a reason for people to join, something different to here & other places.

I suppose there's also a "vicious circle" type thing with forums...people don't like to join & post in empty forums, yet if people don't join & don't post then the forums stay empty...(you need members for there to be activity, but you need activity for there to be members)

It's quite hard, & I understand the problem myself.

Like Alan said, have you thought about actually having a proper website, with the forums as an extension of it? (I know you were thinking before about signing up with I-Web).

Can you perhaps get your friends to join your forum, & use it, so that it "gets the ball rolling" & makes it more active?

Re: Promote your own website
 

I have finally revamped the pages with tables.I hope it now looks a lot better than it did.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/cytherean1/index.html

Incog. :)

Re: Promote your own website
 

Grr...

I have the following sites set up with my host:
http://www.stusplace.co.uk - My forum (revamped again)
http://www.mapediting.co.uk - spin off from the above
http://www.roadrunnersmaps.co.uk - somewhere to get BF1942 / DC / EoD maps (very new site!)
http://www.battlefieldmaps.co.uk - Parked to above address
http://www.sesforum.co.uk - My on-line gameing clan

I was using a different host for stusplace and mapediting & when I transfered the databases & forums to their new home, my friendly EX-host decided not to release my TAG :(
NOTE: if you use FREEOLA or GETDOTTED and want to transfer your domain, I feel I should warn you..... they suck!

All sorted now though ;)

Feel free to nose about my sites, but to download from any of them you will need to register (this keeps my bandwidth costs down and keeps my forums free ;) )

[Note for Nizza] As you may notice, I dropped vBulletin in favour of IPB. 2 reasons for this, 1: IPB has (IMO) better skinning and more user friendly admin / mod panels. 2: IPB let you use their board for free!

Re: Promote your own website
 

:LOL:

Re: Promote your own website
 

Now that name is a real blast from the past:disturbd: :rofl:

Re: Promote your own website
 

I have my NTL site - fairly recently created. Totally dull and uninteresting but everyone has a site these days so I thought I'd better knock something up :)

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/dwarfinleopardskin

Re: Promote your own website
 

[plug=on]I haven't plugged my websites for a while :D
Circuit Swamp
Nebula Board
Farnborough & District Radio Society

Recently added to circuit swamp is a version of FreeExtractor with modifications to install apps to Pocket PCs. I also fixed most of the bugs in the original. Still available is my Java phone game Tilt & a circuit for my version of the Pixie tranceiver.

Nothing new on Nebulaboard. Am improved version with easier customisation is on the cards, but I'm too busy at the moment.

The Farnborough Radio Club website is up to date. I was quite pleased with the way my photos of the visit to Farnborough Air Sciences Trust came out.

Alan
[plug=off]:D

www.pchelpforum.com
 

:D FINALLY !!

http://www.pchelpforum.com
My site is up and running...and actually looking good.

We have:
Forums
Downloads
PMs
News
Webmail
Polls
Shoutbox
...loads of other goodies..!!

Please go and have a look !!!
http://www.pchelpforum.com ;)

Re: Promote your own website
 

Here's mine.

http://www.bowlandcentral.com/forum/
Popular forum we've been building for two years now (Our birthday is the 19th May!).

Launched as an alternative to a larger forum run by a major ISP (not ntl!), after they killed their community with excessive moderation, we struck a chord with some peopl and have grown ever since.

Registration needed to view posts, but hotmail/yahoo addresses are accepted for those who wish to remain anonymous.

It's a mixture of fun & silliness with more serious heated discussion, going very well at the moment, averaging 300 posts a day.

It's bright yellow...if you find that a bit loud, use the colour changer (same place as on here, it's the same board software)

Re: Promote your own website
 

http://incognitas.i-webhosted.co.uk/index.html


:tired:

Incog.

Re: Promote your own website
 

Do you not think that very off putting - I would never sign up to a forum until I had spent time looking around it.

Re: Promote your own website
 

The problem is, when we used to have it that way, all we got was hardly anyone logging in, but load of guests browsing around and never posting.

Sometimes I feel I'd like to make it more 'public', but every time we've tried it, it flops and th site starts to die. I'm sure there are some who get put off registering because they cannot see the site, but it's far outweighed by the increased activity we get in the community by having it 'members only' so to speak. Despite this, we DO get quite a few new registrations.

As a sort of compromise, we did create a portal page which IS open to guests, and displays the most recent threads.
http://community.bowlandcentral.com.

Re: Promote your own website
 

How are you getting on with Iweb? FTP uploads easier? Better than the free stuff?

Re: Promote your own website
 

Only finished uploading the site very early this morning.It is certainly better than the free site where the FTP is regularly b*ggered.

I'm an html girl so I'll have to take my time with all these shiny buttons....I wonder what this does?........Ah...I think I broke it :Sprint:

:jk:

Incog.

Re: Promote your own website
 

If you need any help im sure theres many members here that can tell you what the buttons do, or just send me a PM ;) :)

Dont forget you can also have your own e-mail address's

me@yourdomain.i-webhosted.co.uk or such like ;) :)

Admin edit (Richard M) - Let's hope she doesn't have "catch all" email enabled eh? :pp

Re: Promote your own website
 

Hmm... I had this trouble with http://www.mapediting.co.uk
It's just a forum about editing BF1942 maps.
When I first opened it, I wanted to force registration to build up members, but had no posts!
So, to get posts, I made the board free for all to view/post, then when the posts built up, I changed it to free-to-view, register to post.

Admitedly, I get thousands of 'views' and hardly any posts, but the people who do register end up being valuable members.

I guess it's one of those catch22 situations (as mentioned earlyer) a successfull forum has lots of posts by lots of members, but people don't join empty forums.... so you need to find a way of building up some usefull information to entice viewers, then give them the option to get involved after a free sign up.

It works for my site, because some people just want to know something simple, they can just look it up and go.
Other people who want to learn something, register and start posting.
They make more info available for people in future.

Re: Promote your own website
 

Oi! I am here you know!!Stop talking over my head!!! :pp

Incog.

Re: Promote your own website
 

mines all about how to earn money on the net by completing surveys and getting freebies!!

http://www.geocities.com/janeewing1/

Re: Promote your own website
 

by gum I'm creamcrackered. :tired:

I've added a whole new section to my site which is not art inspired.Take a look.

http://incognitas.i-webhosted.co.uk/index.html

Incog.Have to leave the shiny,shiny buttons for lateeeeeerrrr........ :sleep:

Re: Promote your own website
 

I may be ready - it's very lame, but here i go

http://www.gazfan.com/website

Re: Promote your own website
 

Looks nice Homealone.
I like the way you integrated the RSS feeds from Frank's site. :)

Re: Promote your own website
 

:blush: that is very welcome feedback, thanks :)

- Freaky Franky is not forgotten :)

Re: Promote your own website
 

My forum

Finally with no ads. I know its an old version of Invision but then thats what the site provide. :)

Re: Promote your own website
 

You might want to check that WNA as I cannot access it.

Re: Promote your own website
 

Are you getting any errors?

Re: Promote your own website
 

It opens up fine for me.

Re: Promote your own website
 

While trying to retrieve the URL: http://www.wayneaustin96.thefreeserv...ard/index.php?

The following error was encountered:

Connection Failed
The system returned:

(146) Connection refused
The remote host or network may be down. Please try the request again.

Re: Promote your own website
 

ok i need sometime to sort this out. I will let you know when its back up.

Re: Promote your own website
 

I get

Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request

Re: Promote your own website
 

Ditto.

Re: Promote your own website
 

Same for me

Re: Promote your own website
 

Ditto

Well just goes to prove the old adage is true
you get what you pay for... :dozey:

Re: Promote your own website
 

same here - anyone any idea what it could be causing the problem? The original error posted by leggom seemed to be an overall site problem, but lately they seem to be specific to WNA's installation?

Re: Promote your own website
 

Well at least he hasn't paid for this poor service. :)

Incog.

Re: Promote your own website
 

hmm, I wonder about that

it doesn't say what will happen if the 'requirement' continues to fall below the target.

The package provided - 2 Gig of space, 60 Gig of bandwidth, 1000 MySql databases, etc, is disproportionate for a 'free' hosting service & I am guessing they expect income from the advertising to offset that.

I don't think anything will ever curb WNA's boundless enthusiasm, but I hope he hasn't set his hopes too high, with this.

Re: Promote your own website
 

Experience is a great teacher so it's all a learning curve to a 16 year old.They usually bounce back ok.

Incog. :)

Re: Promote your own website
 

Can't seem to access the FTP server that i was provided with, but i have emailed them.

Re: Promote your own website
 

Wayne - can you not afford 99p a month ?

Re: Promote your own website
 

I can but its the domain reg and all the personal details as well. Which i don't feel comfartable with.

Re: Promote your own website
 

I believe Incog uses a generic USERNAME.i-webhosted.co.uk subdomain or something.

Re: Promote your own website
 

I've already offered you a subdomain and some space for nothing. It was your choice not to take up the offer.

Re: Promote your own website
 

Yes this is correct we do offer this service now for those that do not want to have their own domain name which has all the same benefits as the other hosting packages including cpanel pop email address etc.
when signing up just enter username.i-webhosted.co.uk the main advantage of using this is that the site propagates to internet almost instant.

Re: Promote your own website
 

If you register a .co.uk domain, you can very easily "opt out" of having your details in the WhoIs database.

Then, if anyone did a whois check on your domain, the only detail they would get would be your name.

Or...there's the option Incog uses, as Richard & Web Junkie mention above.

Re: Promote your own website
 

there you go Wayne - I would send willie a pm to ask him how that could work for you - as a student, you may be vat exempt, for some stuff, for example.

Re: Promote your own website
 

Cool i might think about that.

Re: Promote your own website
 

:tu:

Re: Promote your own website
 

WNA, when I set up www.battlefieldmaps.co.uk I didn't want to include my personal details.
If you run a whois, it says the owners name is "RoadRunner" and has elected not to have address info displayed ;)

This is simple to do, when you purchase your .co.uk name there should be a tick box for exclusion from the public register. Tick it.

I use 123reg.co.uk for all my domains as they seem to be cheap (9p) and efficient.

Re: Promote your own website
 

It's totally advert free and uploading is a whiz and I get a whopping great space to play with.Also there's loads of email thingys and....well if you are learning I reckon it's a good place to learn.Especially if there is a forum to help.


Still haven't played with the shiney new buttons though.I wonder what that one does? oops: :Sprint:

Re: Promote your own website
 

UK2 are also good for registration.

Re: Promote your own website
 

http://www.se-an.co.uk

Be warned though, I can't stop myself from swearing. I haven't touched the CSS yet but to be honest, the default template will do me for now.

Re: Promote your own website
 

How much space and who with? Can you give me a little more info?

Re: Promote your own website
 

Having thought about it, if I give you a subdomain off of one of my domains I wouldn't be able to offer you access to MySQL, I couldn't (and wouldn't) let you have my level of access to the databases on any of my domain names, too risky. You're still better off paying a pound a month to i-web.

Re: Promote your own website
 

http://opengl.nutty.org/

OpenGL stuff with source.. no new demos for a while, but I get busy at work alot. :)