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This is not a frivolous question. I am said numbskull. I'm solid with computers, a whizbang on the major business-related applications like Excel and MS-Word and also some graphic stuff, but I've never (until now) really needed to establish a website. Actually, I need two of them, neither related to my own writing, but for two quite different reasons. And I'm just plain baffled by the entire process. Neither of these needs are very complex, so I don't need to go to a high-cost pro outfit. Both are, it seems to me, fairly simple in concept.
But I just plain don't know how or where to start. Advice like "First you need to get a web provider" read like ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs to me. How do you do that? How do you choose such a service?"
It gets worse from there. I need really really really really basic knowledge I don't have, and feel really really really stupid about not having, considering your basic 12-year-old in the U.S. knows such things better than her name and address. The Internet is. wonderfully, almost useless in searching for answers, because all you get is commercial pitches for the major WebDude services like GoDaddy, of which I have a complete aversion.
So what in . . . do I do?
caw
But I just plain don't know how or where to start. Advice like "First you need to get a web provider" read like ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs to me. How do you do that? How do you choose such a service?"
It gets worse from there. I need really really really really basic knowledge I don't have, and feel really really really stupid about not having, considering your basic 12-year-old in the U.S. knows such things better than her name and address. The Internet is. wonderfully, almost useless in searching for answers, because all you get is commercial pitches for the major WebDude services like GoDaddy, of which I have a complete aversion.
So what in . . . do I do?
caw