Building a website with godaddy?

5v3d3b0 · World Chat Champion Joined: 24 Sep 2006 Karma :

The other day I bought a domain with godaddy.com, but it seems I have to use their sitebuilder Confused

It's only free if you have max 5 pages on your website which is a bit anal...
I'm paying for the domain shouldn't that be enough and I can just code it myself using notepad or some crap like that?

K0rnIsAFAGGOT · Trackday Trickster Joined: 22 Jun 2008 Karma :

You bought a domain, you now need to buy web-space.

5v3d3b0 · World Chat Champion Joined: 24 Sep 2006 Karma :

Care to educate me a bit further?
I'm new to this whole website thing Razz

If you don't mind giving me the basic rundown...

Flip · Super Spammer Joined: 28 Feb 2004 Karma :

karoshi · Brolly Dolly Joined: 28 Jun 2006 Karma :

first off, looking at godaddy's site, have you registered a domain name with them or bought web-hosting from them?

difference is: registering a domain name means that through them you own the website address (e.g. www.mywebsite.com), buying hosting space from them means that you are renting the space for a website to sit in..

(if you've bought the domain name it'll have cost you ~$10 for the year, if you've bought hosting you'll be paying ~$5/month upwards on their economy plan)

you need both to have a website.

If you've bought the domain name you should be able to add hosting space to the domain through their domain management website, a quick look over their plan information shows that their Economy package will give you 10Gb of space to host your site, and 300Gb/Month allowed traffic, this'll be fine for now unless you want to go straight into hosting a lot of big videos?

Once you've got hosting space, you'll get a set of FTP user details, at that point you can write the site however you choose ( Thumbs Up

from me if you do it in notepad but i'd suggest downloading Textpad as it makes life easier Smile

), you don't have to use their sitebuilder software if you don't want to.

What Flip said about pointing the name at the space, godaddy's website account management should help you through this process but if it doesn't you can call their support line and ask them to help you through the process (they're in it for the money, make 'em work for you Wink

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