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Old 07-10-2007, 01:50 AM Changing Hosting Site Help
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I currently use Yahoo! Small Business for a website host and it has a SiteBuilder program. I use it because I don't know much about coding and all that. Maybe I'll learn someday. Anyways, I was thinking about changing to this instead of Yahoo! It's cheaper and gives you way more space. It says it also has a site builder program, but it probably doesn't have as many features.
I have that one Macromedia program that you can use to make a website, but I've never messed with it. Do you think I should use that instead? The only reason I haven't switched hosting sites already is because with Yahoo! I can pay like an extra 75 cents a month and it makes a lot of my info on the whois private and I don't know if the other site has that feature.

Any tips or suggestions?

Edit: Oh yeah, also the main thing I hate about Yahoo! SiteBuilder is that it's almost impossible to change multiple things on different pages at once. For instance, today I made a new logo for my site and tried to get it to change from the old logo to the new one on every page, but it only did it on a few pages and the rest still have the old one on there. Is there a way I can update one image on multiple pages at the same time with Dreamweaver or whatever that Macromedia thing is?

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Old 07-10-2007, 09:16 AM Re: Changing Hosting Site Help
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Do you really need more space? And cheaper might also be more unreliable.

What you see there is just massive overselling. You won't get to use all that space and bandwidth anytime soon without getting suspended cuz of resource usage.

Also I've heard issues with domains and yahoo so you might have some problems transferring it.
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Old 07-14-2007, 01:07 PM Re: Changing Hosting Site Help
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Most people need more space like they need a car that goes 140 miles-per-hour. Do't be lured in by the "bigger is better" techniques that marketing departments use on customers. It is much wiser to judge a company and it's programs on other criteria.
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Old 07-14-2007, 01:54 PM Re: Changing Hosting Site Help
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I would just stick with the Yahoo Web Hosting you have. If you have any questions regarding making a website or just need some little help, shoot me a PM. I have a client that is using Yahoo Web Hosting and so far its been doing great.
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Old 07-15-2007, 05:58 PM Re: Changing Hosting Site Help
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In the long run I'd probably recommend learning some basic HTML rather than using a sitebuilder like the Yahoo! one.

The problem with sitebuilder software (even other WYSIWYG stuff like Dreamweaver etc.) is that you always hit some limitation of the software, such as the one that you referred to.

HTML is really very simple - if you can use the markup "BBcode" in this forum for things like bold and so forth, you won't have much trouble with HTML either.

The more difficult part is HTML's best friend - CSS. This is more difficult (in terms of figuring out how to make good use of it), but by no means impossible.

The other good thing is that you can generally make all of your updates without touching CSS at all, so you could just have someone else create your site for you in clean HTML/CSS and then edit the HTML yourself (and not worry about CSS).

I completely agree with dynaweb about the (lack of) need for bigger and better hosting etc. - Jdinh04 is probably right that your Yahoo! hosting account will most likely suit your needs fine. However, to answer your question, there are plenty of other domain registrars offering whois privacy services - you should also keep in mind that your domain doesn't have to be held by the company you host with (some even say that it shouldn't be!).

There are a number of ways to edit common content across multiple pages of your site at once (if it's written by hand in HTML); you could use one of the many text editors to do "find/replace" in files, or you could be a little more advanced and create things that are likely to change (e.g. navigation) in a separate file and have the server insert that into the right place in your page when serving it on the web - therefore you only need to change in one file and it updates across your whole site.
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Old 07-15-2007, 08:34 PM Re: Changing Hosting Site Help
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Thanks for all the help, guys. I think I'll take your advice and learn HTML someday.
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