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Ayudame!!!
Hey kids,
The time has come for me to have a website...some kind of WednesdayLeeFriday.com sort of thing.
How do I get that?
How much does it cost?
Can it be free?
Who, oh who, will design it for me?
Some of you must do this type of thing for a reasonable price.
Or knows someone who does...
Talk to me!
In other news, I'm recording some short stories for podcast instead of my novel at present. That will be good practice until I figure out how novel rights are going to work.
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skryche, (or any other males with a great voice) if you still want to do volunteer voice work for me, do let me know.
The time has come for me to have a website...some kind of WednesdayLeeFriday.com sort of thing.
How do I get that?
How much does it cost?
Can it be free?
Who, oh who, will design it for me?
Some of you must do this type of thing for a reasonable price.
Or knows someone who does...
Talk to me!
In other news, I'm recording some short stories for podcast instead of my novel at present. That will be good practice until I figure out how novel rights are going to work.
skryche, (or any other males with a great voice) if you still want to do volunteer voice work for me, do let me know.
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Thanks.
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Most hosts (this one included) will cut you a better deal if you pay for a year up front rather than a month at the time. The real difference comes in the setup fee and domain registration that you may be charged. That's usually free with a year's hosting. However, these places do run sales and specials where they waive those feels on certain days.
In the meantime, you can check the availability of possible domain names at http://www.networksolutions.com
Some advice for what it's worth. Don't get a free site. Unless you're eight. Or you don't mind all the crap that goes along with a free site. And there's a ton of it. Don't go with a name so long that it can't be easily remembered or easily jotted down, printed, et cetera. Try to come up with a name that is both catchy and fits your content, persona, whatever it is you want people to visit for. And if you're lucky, someone else won't have beaten you to it.
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I have Dreamweaver, I just haven't learned it well enough to use it.
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Do you have Quicktime Pro? That's what I'm using to record my voice; then I'll be sending the voice recordings to
Although I should think there are any number of programs you can use to create sound files. I'm sure
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But I imagine you'll want me to use a good microphone? Can you (or Mr.
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The short story that got picked for the anthology is first person male narrative. The only thing I need to supply is the mom over the answering machine and some random whimpering.
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You didn't mention a price, but you asked for a good mic, so I present the U87. At least it's not Neumann's expensive mics, just their mid range ones.
If you give me a price range, and what you would be primarily using it for, I can help to point you in the right direction.
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* - I was thinking the $40-$50 range.
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The cheapest mic I can recommend with any confidence is the Shure SM58 (http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=Search&A=details&Q=&sku=68463&is=REG&addedTroughType=search)It is the industry standard mic. It's good, and stable and sounds fine. It has a broad range and does a lot of things pretty well, but nothing great. They are around $100, but I've seen them as low as $68, just not today.
I hope this helps.
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Hosting handles the content of a site. Your html files. Your image files. Anything you put on your site, whether others see it or not, has to be hosted somewhere. Think of it as a remote harddrive, the contents of which you access and manipulate in much the same way as you would what's on your pc. Your basic hosting is shared and usually has a Linux based admin panel. Then there's dedicated hosting which is what most big, high traffic sites use.
Here's a page that will hopefully do a better job of explaining all this better than I can.
http://www.1stdomain.net/info/glossary.html
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Thanks, man.
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sites
You can use a free server for the actual site and if you can work with html at least a little bit you can create yourself a nice little starter page.
I started out that way and even used the free 'short urls' I found. That's why I've been using http://katt.onlyhere.net for so long. I only recently bought my own domain.
The guy that made the graphics for my site can be reached at http://differencemedia.nl/ He speaks perfect english and is very nice. His prices are pretty reasonable and very professional. Usually between 100 - 250. He can probably set you up with a server address as well so you won't have to have extra banners/pop ups the free servers require.
I'm sure you'd be blown away by whatever he makes for you. He sure did me.
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I know a lot about getting things either free or cheap. :D
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I'm just hoping I can pull some money together to make this happen. Until then, anyone who googles me get's either my LJ or my Amazon wish list.
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I've been checking out your site and doing a bit of research for your press packet. I'll be starting on it as soon as I get some novel editing underway. I just don't want to get behind, especially since they may expect another finished novel from me next year.
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