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Provider
2005-01-17 | Domain name
(per year) | Web Hosting
(per month) |
| GoDaddy | $7.20 | $3.95/500mb $9.95/2gig |
| DomainSite | $7.77 | X |
| Velcom | X | $9.95, 850mb |
| OMNIS | $7.95 | $8.95/1gig |
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These prices assume:
| • | | Web Hosting: UNIX based; shown are highest (mb) quotas, except for Velcom which is lowest |
| • | | Domain Name: New registration. Transferring registration costs less. |
Prices are lower for less quota, and if reserving Domain Name for more than 1 year.
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Provider
2003-10-06 | Domain name
(per year) | Web Hosting
(per month) |
| GoDaddy | $8.95 | $8.95, 150mb |
| DomainSite | $9.99 | $10, 100mb |
| Velcom | X | $7.95-$9.95, 550mb |
| OMNIS | $7.95 | $26.95, 200mb |
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As of 2003-10-06 I am paying $9/year for NAME at goDaddy
(not because it's cheapest but because of managing all websites together),
and $10/month for 550mb at Velcom.
On 2002-12-31 I was paying $9/year for NAME at goDaddy,
and $17 for 100MB at OMNIS.com (it was $7/month for 50MB).
Prices go up and down, even with same company... depending on their choice.
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Content
You'll need something to put on your website - you're on your own
Creating webpages
you need Website Software like Dreamweaver or Adobe
GoLive. Sometimes Notepad is enough, but then you have to understand HTML
(the language of websites). I prefer to play with HTML, aligning things
is better that way. Automatically generated HTML is usually messy looking
and messy to edit.
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On his website, Dan Heller has
a lot of advice for website
stuff as well as picture formatting, making slideshows. He has about 60,000pictures
online. He has advice on photography too.
If you see a webpage you like, you can "View Source", a feature
of Internet Explorer or Netscape. That will show you how much HTML work
went into it. Some of this HTML is created by the author directly, some
is automatically generated, and some is generated "a few seconds
ago" from things like CGI/Perl scripts.
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- First you take pictures. You take your time.. then you learn
to take more time.. The pictures show how much time and thought was put
into them. And if you have a vision before taking the picture, then you
have groundwork for memorable pictures.
- Then you have pictures developed at a GOOD place. Your local pharmacy
is not a good place. The colors and life of a picture all come from developing.
A professional developing place will do a much better job, and instead
of $6/roll you'll spend $12/roll (2002 price in Phoenix, Arizona).
- For websites, you need to scan pictures. The best thing is to scan
the original, the negative or the slide. But you can scan photographs
directly. That's what i do, but i would really prefer to be scanning with
Polaroid SprintScan 4000 Plus. It is a 4000DPI slide/negative scanner
with Dmax=4.2 -- (
$1200 at BHPhotoVideo & $1200
at PCMall ).
That scanner scans at 4000 dots per inch. Dmax=4.2 is about the highest
number for table scanners. It is a measure of the difference between light
and dark elements of the image. It does make a difference. It brings out
the details in shadows and makes things clear and crisp and lifelike.
It makes images sweet (assuming the original was sweet). Dan Heller uses
that scanner, and it shows.
- After scanning you need to save the pictures in 2 sizes, a thumbnail
picture and a big picture. These pictures should be in JPG format. All
JPGs are not the same. JPG is not a perfect representation of the original,
there is always "loss". The smaller the loss, the bigger the
file.
ok, the rest you can lookup at Dan's website ;) |
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