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I am hoping you lot will offer some recommendations and warn me off some pitfalls here. I want to create a simple website for the reg charity which is the 'Friends' of the church. I have very limited experience of creating simple sites with html editors some years ago. I  presume I will cobble the content together with templates and some photos/artwork. I think what I want from hosting is the following: Domain name service Email forwarding Some up to date software for creating and maintaining several pages Possibly the ability to accept donations at some future date Long term service Absolute minimum cost Googling seems to produce a lot of results. Has anybody done this recently who could give me some guidance? thanks Tim w

pitfalls here. I want to create a simple website for the reg charity which is the 'Friends' of the church. I have very limited experience of creating simple sites with html editors some years ago. I  presume I will cobble the content together with templates and some photos/artwork. I think what I want from hosting is the following: Domain name service Email forwarding Some up to date software for creating and maintaining several pages Possibly the ability to accept donations at some future date Long term service Absolute minimum cost Googling seems to produce a lot of results. Has anybody done this recently who could give me some guidance? thanks Tim w For something really simple (and free!) you could consider the Communigate offerings by the Newsquest local newspaper group. Go to http://www.communigate.co.uk/ and select your part of the country from the panel on the right. There's not much flexibility

pitfalls here. I want to create a simple website for the reg charity which is the 'Friends' of the church. I have very limited experience of creating simple sites with html editors some years ago. I  presume I will cobble the content together with templates and some photos/artwork. I think what I want from hosting is the following: Domain name service Email forwarding Some up to date software for creating and maintaining several pages Possibly the ability to accept donations at some future date Long term service Absolute minimum cost Googling seems to produce a lot of results. Has anybody done this recently who could give me some guidance? thanks Tim w My company provides free hosting when you buy a domain name: http://www.nameroute.co.uk Used by a lot of churches and community groups. Gordon

pitfalls here. I want to create a simple website for the reg charity which is the 'Friends' of the church. I have very limited experience of creating simple sites with html editors some years ago. I  presume I will cobble the content together with templates and some photos/artwork. I think what I want from hosting is the following: Domain name service Email forwarding Some up to date software for creating and maintaining several pages Possibly the ability to accept donations at some future date Long term service Absolute minimum cost Googling seems to produce a lot of results. Has anybody done this recently who could give me some guidance? You might consider Google's Gmail for the mail and googlepages for the web pages. You have to get the Gmail first: http://www.gmail.com Then the googlepages: http://www.googlepages.com It uses the Google Page Creator to manage your pages   http://pages.google.com/-/about.html which is very easy to use if you don't want to do anything fancy like having active content or need your page to look very different from their templates. There's nothing in googlepages that stops you using PayPal to accept donations, but you might have to bypass the page creator to do that. (e.g. create your page with Google Page Creator, go to the page, do fileave_page_as:html, use a text editor to drop in the code that PayPal gave you, and upload the edited page.) I think we can trust Google to be around for a while, and to keep their systems up to date both in terms of technology and market competitiveness. It's all free. The limits for each googlepages site are:         100mb         500 files         there's also an undocumented bandwidth limit, but it's pretty         high         No server-side _script_ing You can have up to three googlepages sites per Gmail account.

pitfalls here. I want to create a simple website for the reg charity which is the 'Friends' of the church. I have very limited experience of creating simple sites with html editors some years ago. I  presume I will cobble the content together with templates and some photos/artwork. I think what I want from hosting is the following: Domain name service Email forwarding Some up to date software for creating and maintaining several pages Possibly the ability to accept donations at some future date Long term service Absolute minimum cost Googling seems to produce a lot of results. Has anybody done this recently who could give me some guidance? Tim, we've recently developed a web site for our church, and we used Mr Site (http://www.mrsite.co.uk/) which should offer all the features you ask for. Our site is at http://www.carrvillemethodist.org.uk/ if you want to see some live results.

There's nothing in googlepages that stops you using PayPal to accept donations, but you might have to bypass the page creator to do that. (e.g. create your page with Google Page Creator, go to the page, do fileave_page_as:html, use a text editor to drop in the code that PayPal gave you, and upload the edited page.) Or you could use Google Checkout.