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Originally Posted by lynca
The DiscoBots as a rookie team got started using DynDNS with an old computer using a standard internet connection. Check out the tutorial.
http://2009.discobots.org/node/7 "Host Server Setup"
This is a great way to get started and learn about all the details without spending money.
To make our system more robust we switched over to Hostgator in our second year. |
Yeah, that's the perfect way to get started. You can experiment with various designs and get your website running and debugged before spending any money on it. That's also a really great website your team has!
Mike AA is right, though. If you do it consistantly and your ISP finds out, they'd likely cut you off.
Oh, the reason I mentioned my friend's hosting company is because he likes techie things and we could try and convince him to sponsor teams (especially ones that really need it) for more publicity. No idea if he'd actually go for it, but it'd be worth a shot.
Has anyone done a more in-depth tutorial for actually designing a website or modifying templates? And does anyone have a preferred software for web development like Dreamweaver? Tutorials are inherently difficult because of the diverse nature of the task, but it would be cool to centralize some of these resources to make it easy for people searching the forums.
I initially liked dreamweaver when I was developing our lab website, but I ultimately migrated to a mediawiki base install because of the nature of the site (handlab.iit.edu). If you're interested in a wiki format like wikipedia, check out:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki. There are plenty of others with a wide range of features that you can see here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wikis.