I know a number of you are old hands at this, but it's new to me. I've already registered several domain names, and purchased an inexpensive, yet very basic one-year hosting package.
For those of you who have had your own websites for at least a few months, can you describe any potential problems/snags?
I've found one book I like re: programming and web design for a site, but mine will primarily be text anyway, as I want to hold pictures down to, at most, 2 to 3 small jpegs.
And I have not decided what I want to do yet, as this is a learning experience. Three possibilities are
1. A site encouraging people to leave either the Democratic or Republican Party and register as an independent, since your vote will automatically be taken for granted if you remain a member of either of the two major parties.
2. A site attempting to create an initiative for the California ballot which would, if at all possible, require the payment of a large amount of monetary damages directly from the state treasury - payment to any California resident having suffered identity theft. Only being applied, however, when there has not been a good-faith effort by local and/or state authorities to rapidly correct the problem and help the victims of this crime. The difficulty here, iirc, it now requires a minimum of $2 million to qualify a potential proposition for the ballot, and most potential propositions never make it that far.
3. A website for a new organization to be created encouraging college students to pay cash whenever possible - i..e., you find those college students who believe in this and have them counter the banking/credit card industry reps at various colleges and universities. One technique might be passing out copies of the new bankruptcy laws with "plain English" explanations attached. Also information as to which lobbyists provided "donations" to various Congressional reps and Senators. And the votes of those Congressional reps and Senators would also be provided with thia information. I regard this as something akin to discouraging teenagers from smoking, but in this case, simply encouraging the majority of young adults in college to pay cash whenever possible.
Any one of these would be a lot of work for me, so would I be better off starting out with something oriented to the simpler side of things? And if any of the above sites already exist, I don't want to spend any time "reinventing the wheel."
As I've already written, this is primarily a learning experience for me, so my final question is does anyone know of a good, reasonably-priced, webhost who will automatically cap your bandwidth instead of automatically charging you more, and which has a reputation for great customer service? Any general hints/suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!



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