Good resources for starting your website! WebHosting | Domains | HTML | Scripts!

Hello and welcome to this thread. Today I will be trying, to the best of my ability, to assist you in the creation of your website. I will be covering various areas within this thread and I hope that they will come in handy and be of use to all of you.

Areas that we will cover

• Free Hosting
  
• Paid Hosting
  
• Domain Registration
  
• Website Templates
  
• Scripts
  

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Free Web Hosting
Alright, so a lot of people who plan on building a website want to do it at the cheapest rate possible, often on free webhosting.
The real issue with this is that many of these are running on standard shared hosting and usually have really low disk space, which might not be as useful for people that are trying to run a company or a forum.

List of Free Web Hosts
000WebHost
FreeHostia
x10Hosting
Host1Free
Freeola
FreeWebHostingArea
FreeHosting

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Paid Web Hosting
Paid hosting, unlike free hosting, is much more beneficial for many reasons. The main reason being is that you get more options for your money.
In addition to having more for your money, you also get better support when you really need it which is always good.

List of Paid Web Hosts
Tech Hosts
1and1
VenTraip
WebFaction
HawkHost
T1Hosting
Malcube
GoDaddy
DigitalOcean
ASCII Digital
Lease Web
Host Gator
Rack Space

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Domain Registration
Ok, so I'm sure we all know what a domain is, but let me explain the difference here for you between a Domain and a Sub-Domain.

Domain:
A full length domain such as HackForums.net

Sub-Domain:
Falls under the domain such as test.HackForums.net
You can get free and paid domains but here is a list of both, usually websites with paid .com/.net etc domains do better than free ones.

Free Domain Hosts
.TK

Paid Domain Hosts
123REG
GoDaddy
Names
UKREG
1and1
EasySpace
CrazyDomains

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Website Templates (HTML)

A vast majority of websites that you see are created with HTML and CSS. Although each website you come across is different than the next they all usually have 2 or more columns.
Columns are basically blocks on a webpage where you store content at. The most common ways of adding columns to your website is by using the <div> or <table> tags.

A div defines a block-level section on a webpage.

Example of a div,


A table defines an inline section on a webpage.

Example of a table,


Example of a one page webpage with columns using divs,


Example of a one page website with columns using tables,

The code for the 2 sections above was taken from www.w3schools.com. It is just an example and I would not suggest using their site for information.

List of free Website Templates

http://www.freewebsitetemplates.com/
http://www.freewebtemplates.com/
http://www.artisteer.com/?p=free_website_templates
http://www.free-css.com/
http://www.wix.com/website/templates
http://www.opendesigns.org/
http://www.templateworld.com/free_templates.html
http://www.oswd.org/
http://www.metamorphozis.com/free_templa...plates.php
http://www.steves-templates.com/

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Software Scripts
Scripts are very common on a lot of Websites, by Scripts I mean website software such as MyBB which HackForums is running on.
I have compiled a list of quite a few scripts below based on their category. I hope these help some people out when making a website!

Blogs
WordPress
OpenBlog
DotClear
Serendipity
B2Evolution
Text Pattern
Pixie
LifeType
Nucleus CMS

Portals/CMS
Drupal
Joomla
Concrete5
ocPortal
PyroCMS
ImpressCMS

Forums
phpBB
SMF
MyBB
InvisionPower
vBulletin
xenForo

Image Galleries
Gallery
Coppermine
4Images

Wikis
MediaWiki
DokuWiki
PmWiki
WikkaWiki

Social Networking
Dolphin
Jcow
Oxwall
Elgg

Ad Manager
OSClass
Noah's
Revive Adserver

Gaming
BlackNova Traders
Shadows Rising
Multiplayers Checkers
Word Search Puzzle

Mails
Roundcube
Squirrel Mail
WEBinsta Maillist
OpenNewsLetter

Polls and Surveys
LimeSurvey
Piwik
Simple
Advanced Poll
Simple PHP Poll

Project Management
qdPM
eyeOS
ProjectPier
PHPProjekt
todoyu

e-Commerce
OpenCart
Abante Cart
osCommerce
TheHostingTool
BoxBilling
ZeusCart

ERP
vTiger
Dolibarr
Simple Invoices
Zurmo

Guest Books
Advanced Guestbook
Lazarus
Bellabook
phpBook
phpKode Guestbook
VX Guestbook
RicarGBook

Customer Support
osTicket
Open Web Messenger
phpOnline
Trellis Desk
Live Helper Chat

Frameworks
Code IgniterZend Framework
CakePHP
WideImage
PHPDevShell

Educational
Moodle
Claroline
DoceboMLS
Dokeos
eFront

DB Tools
phpMyAdmin
MyWebSQL
Adminer
SQLLiteManager
phpLiteAdmin

Music
kPlaylist
Podcast Generator
AmpJuke
Impleo

Vdeo
ClipBucket
VidiScript
videoDB
CumulusClips
Prismotube Express

RSS
Gregarius
Feed on Feeds
Tiny Tiny RSS
selfoss
Simple Pie

File Management
ownCloud
ProjectSend
http://pyd.io/]Pydio
LetoDMS
eXtPlorer

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