Kitchen Garden Forum

I know I saw a link to a site with a dummies guide to building your own website but cannot locate it - anyone know where this link is? Many thanks in advance.

Dear Cherrycoop, sorry i can't help, but you sound a bit like me, all these things are simple when you get to them, but the hard bit is trying to find them in the first place.

Have you tried this?

http://uk.geocities.yahoo.com/

It may be what you were looking for.

Alan

Many thanks Alan - I will have a go - need to get our allotment a website!

Cherrycoop - you could go to the allotment links via Steve's, Peter's or Gerry's details and see if they explain how to establish a new site.

I have two types of website.

1/. My blog, see below in my signature for a link. To set uo very simple. Got to blogger.com, register, choose a name for your blog, choose a template for your blog, then start posting. Format is predefined as a diary, but you can changes it, hit the link off my simple blog to Steve Partridges more complex version on the same provider.

2/. My allotment association website. http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/bsaga/index.htm
Built on my laptop using Microsoft frontpage and uploaded by dialup, cos I did it before I got broadband so am stuck with that ISP. Varies by the ISP you are registered with. Design, build and test on your home PC, then upload and find out what you missed.

Need any more advice, please do come back to me and I'm sure Steve will help also.

The key to getting started is thinking about what you want to do. If you simply need a webpage with some static information that doesn't change very often, then something like Geocities is quite good.

Then, if you want to add a diary or blog, then you could use something like Blogger.

If you want to do the sort of thing where you're co-ordinating events, sharing pictures, or want to send all the members of a group an email at the same time (bit like a email version of the forum) then Yahoo Groups is a simple starting point.

All this can be done without having to learn any of code.

I have personally used Yahoo Groups for years for a number of projects, and been very pleased with its simplicity and functionality. It's not one of mine, but you might check out:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kitchengardens/

Thank you all for pointing me in the right direction - I will have a go and hopefully in the not too distant future will be able to post a link ...I am getting ahead of myself