Website/blog suggestions

[ghostoftomorrow]

Hi all, long time lurker/engineer/gamer/whatever here just looking for some advice from the community

Basically my partner is looking to launch a website/blog of her own in the near future and turned to me for advice, but I know nothing about designing/running a site

Could anyone point me towards a good starting point i.e. the better site builders that offer more a lot of customisation

Ideally I'd love to use squarespace or something similar but as the site isn't going to be generating any income, at least not initially I cannot justify investing in something with no return - not yet anyway.

Any/all suggestions welcome - I'm aware of wordpress/blogger/blogspot and such but I just wanted to see if anyone else had some others to chose from, especially given I have 0 experience, and I'm sure many of you do!

Thanks in advance!

[TidaLWaveZ]

Buy a domain for cheap from like godaddy or google domains, then have it hosted free by 000webhost.com or premium from hosting24.com.

Both have cpanel and a bunch of other things that make it extremely easy to manage/develop a site.

 

Using apps from cpanel like dolphin or drupal can give you a full setup in like 30 minutes.

 

Heres a site I setup for fun with dolphin.

 

beersinthewater.com

 

 

[ghostoftomorrow]

Awesome! and thanks for the replying so quick! 

I'll have a look at it all, thanks again

 

[kalious78]

quite a few free hosting sites that will give you a sub domain aswell to try out and get started with.

 

http://www.freehostingeu.com/ etc

 

just need to

 

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=free+web+hosting

[ghostoftomorrow]

And thanks to you as well, especially from a fellow scot!

Much appreciated!

[minibois]

Your partner could also use something like Tumblr, that has a lot of customizing too (including with HTML and CSS code, but also through simple ways).

10 minutes ago, kalious78 said:

quite a few free hosting sites that will give you a sub domain aswell to try out and get started with.

 

http://www.freehostingeu.com/ etc

 

just need to

 

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=free+web+hosting

LMGTFY links are not allowed here  

[kalious78]

Just now, Minibois said:

She could also use something like Tumblr, that has a lot of customizing too (including with HTML and CSS code, but also through simple ways).

LMGTFY links are not allowed here  

no one told me !!

[minibois]

8 minutes ago, kalious78 said:

no one told me !!

Well of course they didn't, it's mentioned in the community standards (forum rules) which you are expected to read.

[kalious78]

i musta missed that line

 

I know for the future now though