Website Redux: WSJ Points You Toward Personal Website

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You’ve made your New Year’s Resolution, haven’t you:  this year you will set up your own writer’s website.  There’s no longer an excuse not to do so.

Following up my post of earlier this month about free websites, I’ve come across a detailed article from the Wall Street Journal about how to create a successful website for free.  This article points to several facilities that I have never mentioned on this blog before, pointing out that there is a proliferation of such sites over the past year.  If you as a writer don’t yet have a website, this is a must-read article.

I’m particularly impressed with SynthaSite, which is new to me.  One feature I’ve never seen before:  if you buy a domain name through SynthaSite [cost approximately $10], it will host it for you for free!  Gosh!  I’m paying $180 for the hosting of one of my own personal sites with its own unique web address.

The major disadvantage of these free sites is the limited access to design templates.  But even that gets better and better, with more offerings and with more options to customize the look within a template.

If you have already set up your own writer’s website, tell us about it so that we can come visit.  One of the best ways to learn about websites and blogging is to visit other sites for inspiration and ideas.  Just leave a comment by linking on the link below.

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    Comment by
    avr
    1 Jan 2009

    This is great information, thank you for sharing it and the one about the logo. The website http://www.editorunleased.com also has some tips about how build a writer's website.

    Comment by
    Mike Hamilton
    2 Jan 2009

    You need to be a little bit careful about using free or cheap web services for your critical needs, such as website hosting.

    Analysts and web gurus are predicting that 60% of free web services will go out of business in the next two years. No business can survive if they are making no money, and their is very little investment funding available at the moment to keep them going whilst they work out how they are going to make money. Synthasite raised $5m but that won't last long if they don't get cash coming in soon.

    My advice: Use free web services for your non-critical needs (but back them up). Use solid, profitable companies for your critical needs like web site hosting. As the old saying goes, you get what you pay for!

    Comment by
    tomcolvin
    2 Jan 2009

    Thanks for your additiona link. It's a valuable one.

    Comment by
    tomcolvin
    2 Jan 2009

    Mike, your point about the life-span of the free sites is very well taken
    indeed. Thank you so much for raising that important issue. I certainly
    endorse your view.

    In fact, upon reflection, my important websites and blogs are all hosted by
    well-established hosting companies to which I pay fees. But even with them,
    I don't count on their survival forever. Some things one wishes to endure
    on the web forever suddenly disappear — while other items that one wishes
    would disappear forever seem stuck on the web for all to see for eternity.

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