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Latzen
Mar 12th, 2009, 10:49 PM
Hello, my fair geeks.

As a part of this whole professional acting thing, I've come to determine that I need to set up a website that I can link prospective agents to.

It needs to be free (preferably) and have space for images and video clips, and a relatively flexible (but definitely prefab) template/UI.

Is this a myspace thing?

Or is myspace too tacky?

Recommend mah!
El Capitan
Mar 13th, 2009, 11:05 AM
No way to myspace! Googlepages is always a good start for a simple website.
Koobazaur
Mar 13th, 2009, 12:48 PM
Donno about webspace, but if you get something with PHP and MySQL support, look into WordPress.

Alternatively you could pay me and I would set everything up for you.
Latzen
Mar 13th, 2009, 04:29 PM
Oh, nice job working in the sales pitch, Koobs.

Frankly, I'll keep that in mind. The "cheap as free" provision stands, currently, due to my dismal bank account status.

Thanks guys, and please, anybody else with ideas, pitch in. I've been blogging for years, so at least I have a sense of what I want to do, aesthetically...It's just that I've never setup an "interesting" webpage, marketing style.

It's funny, I fell in love with acting because it seemed like such an unsullied art form. Come to realize that an actor needs to know more about branding and marketing and promotion than the average bear.

Who knew?
Lithium
Mar 13th, 2009, 05:32 PM
http://www.000webhost.com/
wickit
Mar 14th, 2009, 04:22 PM
ill do you a wordpress template if you want to go down that road !
Latzen
Mar 14th, 2009, 06:15 PM
I'm dicking around on 000webhost for now, but I've got this thread in the back of my mind in case I need something different.
PrivateParts
Mar 14th, 2009, 08:50 PM
You designing the site with software or doing it yourself?

might want to learn some css and javascript if you dont know any and are doing it yourself.
pure html itself is limiting.
Latzen
Mar 14th, 2009, 09:10 PM
Well, it doesn't need to be fancy. Fanciness detracted from the pitch. I'll work with html (actually it's a WYSIWYG editor) for now. If it isn't enough, I'll be back. If I think it's enough, I guarantee I'll post a link so that you guys can obliterate it.
wickit
Mar 14th, 2009, 09:38 PM
maybe the wordpress route would be agood idea then
just get the right template and bobs your uncle