My boxing coach’s website went down because the person he paid to run it would not pay the bills. How do we get the domain name and make(or hire someone to make) a web page?
Why not write and run the website yourself?
There are MANY places that will let you have a free website.
There are also many websites that give free information about writing website pages. Here’s a good one:
Aside from creating the pages that go on your web site, you’ll need a basic understanding of how a web site gets set up. Here’s my attempt.
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You need a web server. Generally, the way this works is you find a web hosting company which gives you a directory you can put files in, and they configure the web server software to retrieve the pages out of your directory when people visit a particular address (e.g. http://123.45.67.89/ effectively becomes a shortcut to your directory – note that there is no name associated with this server just yet).
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You need a DNS (“domain name service”) server. You find a company that offers DNS hosting, and they set up a server which allows people to ask for the numerical address of “www.i_know_nothing.com”, and they’ll respond with 123.45.67.89 (the number your hosting company gave you).
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Finally, you need a domain registrar. This is a company which will sell you the name “i_know_nothing.com”. After paying them and telling them who your DNS host (from #2) is, they’ll set it up so that browsers looking for http://www.i_know_nothing.com get sent to your DNS host, which tells them “www.i_know_nothing.com is 123.45.67.89”, so they actually go and get your pages from http://123.45.67.89/, which is the files you put on the web server (from #1).
So there are three basic services you need, and many companies offer more than one of them. You can generally get your domain registration and your DNS service from one place, and just tell them the IP address of your web server and you’re done. Some web hosting companies prefer to do the DNS for you, because it allows them to more easily set up virtual servers without dedicating a fixed IP address to you.
Once all this is set up and you have a “Hello this is my web page” page set up, you can start exploring the actual editing of the words on the site, which you can do at whatever speed you want. Looks like wolf_meister’s site is probably as good a place to start as any, but just experiment and have fun. “View source” on lots of simple pages to get a feel for how things are done (if you can use vBcode you’ve got the basic idea of HTML markup).
Oh, I forgot to cover e-mail for your domain. If you want e-mail, you also need to find a company that offers mail hosting services, and then you tell your DNS provider the name of the server which will be handling the mail, e.g. mail123.somemailprovider.com. Many web hosting companies also offer basic mail hosting services that make it so you can have a handful of individual mailboxes on your domain, or so that <anything>@i_know_nothing.com gets automatically forwarded to your hotmail account or whatever.
I’d need to know what the domain name is, and who it should be registered to, to answer that.
I think you can get most of the domain info from here . The rest is up to your new host.
To get hold of the domain name you need to:
a) get the person who has licensed the domain to submit a transfer agreement, possibly notarized, to the registrar, or
b) have him change the email address registered with the registrar as the contact email for the licensee of the domain, to one of your own addresses, plus get the login info for the domain account from him, then maybe you can take it from there.
How old the domain is, and whether it’s a domain licensed to a person or to a business, might play a role.