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Old 04-15-2008, 01:56 AM Share your first project experience
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I am in the process of getting my first official Web Design project, although its not that big am building for a friend. I would like to learn from the experience of people that have past that stage of being a Newbie.
Wat it felt like ,the process i should take,Advice on Template or WYSIWYG,Domain Registrar to use,Web Hosting Service.
Just share your first web design experience ..............
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Old 04-15-2008, 02:13 AM Re: Share your first project experience
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I really don't do development but I have worked in a hosting environment in the past. Some recommendations:

1. Start with cheap but recommended (usually shared) hosting first. Don't have big eyes - you may anticipate 5 million members within the first month but it's probably not going to happen.
2. Move to a dedicated server when it does happen. Prepare this with your designer and make sure it can meet the minimum criteria of your project.

Domain registrars really don't matter. Personally, I use Namecheap. I know most of the Internet Advertising industry works with Moniker. It's all up to you. I like Namecheap because it includes a free WhoIsGuard subscription with every new domain registration.

But really, you need to give a lot more information about what kind of design project you're talking about. The information above assumes you're building a large, scalable app. If you're asking about templates and WYSIWYG, you're not leaving much information on what you're doing. Are you building a blog? A CMS? What is it that you're trying to offer your visitors?
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Old 04-15-2008, 03:24 PM Re: Share your first project experience
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Often hosts offer special domain registration prices for new customers, or even FREE domain registration. So I would certainly check out hosting before buying a domain.

Tamar is right though, we need a lot more information before we can give a lot more advice.
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Old 04-16-2008, 02:45 PM Re: Share your first project experience
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I thank you all for the advice u've all given, i appreciate it.
The project is not that big.am builing the site for friend of my mine,The client is into Music Training,Musical Instrument Sales and Repair.
The Project is going to be my first official project and i want to give it my best shot.Thank you guys in anticipation for your prompt response.
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Old 04-16-2008, 05:01 PM Re: Share your first project experience
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The first time… well let see, if I remember it was a crisp autumn night; we had just seen a movie and then wanted to for a walk on the beach… o wait what was the question…

Sorry about that , I learned by downloading some free templates and playing around with them to see how you code and what it does, I also used http://www.w3schools.com/HTML/ as kind of a good guide; then I just used this forum to get people to look at my work, and give me suggestions along the way. Good luck.
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