P Stew said:
im tryin to find out a way to put myself out there i thought first would be get a website and spread it around....
but still im kinda confused...
can i get one for free???
and were can i get it??
do i need help settin it up???
thank u if u can help me out
Stewmeat,
A lot of people have told me that throwing up a web site is very easy. Well, promulgating a negative assurance auditing opinion is easy too, if you know what in the fluck you are doing.
Hosting
There are a bunch of free hosting sites. Yahoo, Lycos, Microsoft all host them for free. Personally I like, and use, Yahoo! GeoCities.
Creation
You can create a web page with Microsoft Word, Publisher (what I used), Excel, FrontPage, etc. etc. etc…. You may not be able to create the web page you
want, but more important IMO to get one
up than to make it perfect.
Creation… continued
Web sites can consist of lots of little files. Each picture, each mp3, etc. is a file. There is a really good reason to minimize the number of files that make up you web site… read on.
Uploading
When you upload to a free site you must upload one file at a time, so if your web site contains a boatload of files it may be a bit of a bitch. Of course, this is deliberate because better for you to pay than rely on advertising.
Little secrets I learned
Because free hosting sites limit how much storage you can have you may experience bumping your head against some limits. Note that
www.photobucket.com provides free picture hosting, so you can keep your consumption down. I am not aware (which means nothing) if there are any mp3 hosting sites out there. You should also have an idea of how much traffic is hitting your web site. I found, quite by accident,
www.statcounter.com, a free service that provides some Java code you embed in your site and which reports back to Statcounter who, when, from where, and just what pages, your visitors are looking at. Pretty cool.
And finally….
Promulgating a negative assurance auditing opinion is nothing more than saying, “Well… I didn’t
see anything wrong!”
Luck!