New Website builders

[Waz1892]

Seen the ads for wix.com, go daddy, 1-2-1 etc.

Anyone got any experience of these or others for developing/creating a new website?!

Does it matter what type if website for one preferred site?  (Thinking if it needs shopping cart for example)

Complete novice so any advice welcomed.

One website is for our radio show (so might be better for a blogging site type thing)
The other is for a new business idea im trying to establish for a football stats site, which may need shopping cart (in the future)

Cheers for any help / advice offered.

[doubleup]

Def don't use Godaddy their hosting is pretty poor, they are very expensive and the website builder very limiting.

Learn how to build your own site through http://www.w3schools.com/website/default.asp - honestly you will get a basic understanding of how it works in an afternoon.  All you need to know for a decent website is on that site.

Once you have your site built on your pc and tested, you can register your domain and look for hosting.  I use fasthost as they are ok price wise and have a lot of tools available.  You then just migrate the files on to your public directory on your host and you are live.

edit re shopping cart - you can probably buy some sort of package to add to your site, but the first thing you would need would be a payment processor, they might have software that includes the shopping cart and all you would need to do would be add a button on the relevant pages.

[Waz1892]

Def don't use Godaddy their hosting is pretty poor, they are very expensive and the website builder very limiting.

Learn how to build your own site through http://www.w3schools.com/website/default.asp - honestly you will get a basic understanding of how it works in an afternoon.  All you need to know for a decent website is on that site.

Once you have your site built on your pc and tested, you can register your domain and look for hosting.  I use fasthost as they are ok price wise and have a lot of tools available.  You then just migrate the files on to your public directory on your host and you are live.

Cheers, I will look at the link to start with and tackle and try to understand the rest of your post! Lol.

[Skippy]

I have it on good authority that squarespace are the nuts. (www.squarespace.com)

[Waz1892]

I have it on good authority that squarespace are the nuts. (www.squarespace.com)

Noted, i will gander away and have a look. Cheers.

[Graham C]

A Wordpress based site would probably be good for you.  It's easy to get on with and you can add an eCommerce plug in if you want to sell online.  You could host this on most hosting sites (1&1, GoDaddy etc) and it wouldn't cost a lot.

Similar to Squarespace is Shopify - worth a look if you are comparing solutions like this.

[Tractor]

I have it on good authority that squarespace are the nuts. (www.squarespace.com)

Was going to post exactly this.

[Waz1892]

Sounds promising. Ty.

Are all these MAC compatible too

[Tractor]

Sounds promising. Ty.

Are all these MAC compatible too

Im sure you will be fine on a mac.
You might need an ftp program (Yummy FTP on mac is good) to upload your files & a graphic editor (photoshop etc)
Apart from that you should be good to go.

[Waz1892]

Sounds promising. Ty.

Are all these MAC compatible too

Im sure you will be fine on a mac.
You might need an ftp program (Yummy FTP on mac is good) to upload your files & a graphic editor (photoshop etc)
Apart from that you should be good to go.

Cheers. I'll have crack and look at the options see what feels good when i get home on the 3rd.

Cheers all so far. It is appreicated