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Originally Posted by lucasking94
TEAM 3711 here, we are trying to build a website for our page. Suggestion for how we go about this? It there and particular web builder site better than other? Write all the HTML? Anywhere we could get a free domain? or cheap?
Any advise would be great appreciated!
Thanks.
Lucas
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How you create your website depends on the skills your team currently has and, potentially what skills your team wants to have.
If no one on your team has prior web design experience, you should look into CMS solutions, like Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, ect. Many website hosting providers have "one-click installers" that make it easy to install and setup and many CMS' have a plethora of themes/templates available that can get you started.
If you are fortunate enough to have someone with prior web design experience, your solutions should be to do as much custom designing and coding as possible.
(Best Solution) If your team would like to learn more web design, I would start with hand coding HTML/CSS and possibly even trying to replicate other websites (locally on your own computer, do not publish online, obviously). I taught myself a lot replicating websites like Yahoo!, CNN, ect.
For domains and hosting, you get what you pay for; there are really no free services to make a quality robotics team website. However, hosting and domains are not too expensive and should be allotted in your team's budget. Services like bluehost.com, hostmonster.com, fatcow.com (I've heard) will get you hosting and a domain for under $100/year.
I hope this helps. If you have any questions, feel free to PM me and I will do my best to help.