Web designer needed

[imdying]

That is such tripe Busy

[Delphinus]

Actually a server in auckland will be faster than a server based in europe or the states...

Dont believe me? Its called latency. If you're running windows (if you're on linux I'm guessing you already know this) go start > run > type in "cmd" then press ok.
In the black box type "ping delphinus.co.nz" and it'll do 4 pings and tell you how long it takes for a round trip message to my server.
Then try "ping bbc.co.uk" and it'll tell you the round trip time to the UK and back.
This is called Latency, higher the latency, longer it takes for a message to get there and back.

Also you have to take into account bandwidth (size of your hose, so how much data can move through at one time), most connections will have more national bandwidth than international bandwidth. There are not many connections out of nz.
I lurk in 2 forums mainly, this one (hosted on a good server overseas) and nzgames.com (on a good server in wellington). If I do a search for new posts on both it takes a good 2-3 secs longer on here... which could be due to a number of factors, latency, bandwidth, and also server load.
http://www.quasimoto.co.nz/ is another website hosted overseas and I find that slow to load.

Anyway what I'm trying to say is, make sure you take all factors into consideration when choosing hosting. I host my clients sites on my server hosted nationally because I feel I can give better and high quality service. At very comparable rates.

[TerminalAddict]

I got servers in hamilton and auckland
http://interspeed.co.nz

[The Lone Rider]

Can I suggest you go to www.geocities.com and build yourself your own website. You don't have to use it as the site you are planning to hire someone for, but I reckon if you build your own and play around with it you will have a better idea of how it works. Thats how I learnt and I continue to use geocities free site service for my band website. Boy, you should have seen the first version of the site... SHIT SHIT SHIT !

[imdying]

To be fair on Busy, doesn't 'local' Telstra traffic make a round trip out of the country due to the ISPs not peering anymore?

[Toaster]

Web designer you need hmmmm??? Plenty of spiders outside my place dude.

[NighthawkNZ:Me]

here we go...

You may have fast servers... you may have fast broadband, but you will only recieve the data as fast as the slowest link on the network.

thats no matter where you are...

[Delphinus]

To be fair on Busy, doesn't 'local' Telstra traffic make a round trip out of the country due to the ISPs not peering anymore?

Sometimes yes sometimes no. We're with an ISP that peers directly with telstra (only about 4 hops away)and WIX, and soon APE.

[TerminalAddict]

we're wokring with the guys to get the missing link so that APE and WIX can peer happily .. yay!

[scracha]

Well if it's just static HTML I'll host it for a whopping 60 bucks a year inc GST. .co.nz is 40 bucks with email redirection (you really just want the email being redirected otherwise it comes out your bandwidth allowance). PM for more details.

Don't think you need a CMS site or anything. Adding in wee widgets like Google Maps API make it purty too.
A simple webbysite using tables (i.e. not "web 2" stuff) along the lines of this :-
http://www.mach1yamaha.co.nz/

Would set you back around couple of hundy as it wouldn't take too long to knock up. Can also shove on short videos too.

I've got a bit of a backlog though so it'd be a 3 or 4 weeks or so before I could knock it up. Quite happy to host it and have someone else do the webby bit though.

There's a real simple web publishing wizard in Microsoft Publisher if you want to have a go at it yourself. There's a $hitload of lads on kiwibike who could do the sort of site I think you want.

(NB: I don't host the mach1 site..I think their (NZ) host is as slow as. And they keep uploading huge images and not putting in alt tabs...and ..and...)

[TerminalAddict]

even still .. I'm pretty sure my penis is larger

someone had to take this thread to gutter .. it always happens when I bunch of geeks are involved ... may as well be me

[NighthawkNZ:Me]

Quite happy to host it and have someone else do the webby bit though.

There's a real simple web publishing wizard in Microsoft Publisher

Though publisher and word do have this function I would avoid using them, the output code and absolute utter crap and is filled with extras that is not needed... Slowing page load, and causing some errors in some browsers etc...

However the good news is there are many free WYSIWYG Editors on the net. I recommend NVU http://www.nvu.com/index.php

[Busy]

I concur with NighthawkNZ, stay away from word and publisher, they create bloated code that slows down even a basic web site.

I can't recommend any editors as I dont use them (freehand baby, freehand), but dreamweaver is meant to be pretty good although not free.

Web standards are your friend, not only easier (and tidier) to work on/update the search engine eat em up more ... w3c.org even if it's only HTML Trans.

[Holy Roller]

I use Hotmetal Pro that came bundled in a mag a while ago a few years ago.
I have done several websites for friends and one for our Ulysses branch.
The wysiwyg types make it easy though some understanding of the code is helpful to debug the page.
My kids use dreamweaver but I havent played with it too much and prefer what I know.
Your ISP should have free space to upload pages to as part of your email account or one of the many free servers, only downfall is the adds that come with them.
http://www.angelfire.com/zine2/whaka...ses/index.html
is the link for our clubs site hosted with Angelfire.com for free

[skelstar]

Yeah I used Dreamweaver for about 5mins. Those packages, at least when i was using them, produced some terrible code. Its worth learning how to handwrite the stuff....esp when you want to start doing your own style sheets etc.