Free web sites services for Catholic Churches?

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My church wants a website and I bought Front Page and tried to do it and was perplexed after five minutes. Is there a free web site service for Catholic churches?
 
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My church wants a website and I bought Front Page and tried to do it and was perplexed after five minutes. Is there a free web site service for Catholic churches?
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Here are a couple Freebies

Ecclesia - A Web Service for Catholics

Catholic Web

As to ease and quality…you would have to check it out further. I just know they are free. 🙂
 
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DarinHamel:
My church wants a website and I bought Front Page and tried to do it and was perplexed after five minutes. Is there a free web site service for Catholic churches?
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Hmmm… what perplexes you?

**Are you perplexed about FrontPage, itself? **

I don’t happen to own or had to use FrontPage, myself. But I was able to teach myself HTML – for free. I was very thrilled when DreamWeaver – which is like a shorthand for HTML – came out because it cut my time in putting up a Web site by leaps and bounds!

If you don’t happen to know HTML, learning how to use FrontPage should be pretty straightforward.

Even considering that MicroSoft is NOT famous for providing either good printed or good online (Help screen) “tutorials” – there are books out there at Amazon or Barnes & Noble that you can get that should be helpful for you to learn Front Page.

I don’t know which version (publication year) of FrontPage that you have, but Amazon has several books teaching about how to “do” FrontPage.

There’s the “for Dummies” books – which are sort-of okay.

amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/104-9424090-2624716

Then, there’s the “SAMS teach yourself” book which is a great option – it’s NOT a reference manual. This one takes you step-by-step through printed lessons that are designed to each last for one hour. Each lesson builds on what you learned in the lesson before it.

amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/104-9424090-2624716

Hey Ma, It Worked!, March 18, 2005
Reviewer: Avid Reader (Franklin, Tn) - See all my reviews

Yes, I used this well-illustrated and easily understandable book and designed a web site in one (long) weekend. The structure is in four parts ascending from the general to the detail, from easy to difficult. The examples are EXACTLY like the screen, unlike other guides in which there were variations.

I researched other support groups and found some written in Microsoftese, a language that few understand. Others had few illustrations or assumed you knew more than you did or were unorganized. This one, recommended by a friend, was perfect. In three minutes I displayed a web page (with the words “THIS IS A TEST” in bright red) using my browser, Netscape. From there, it was downhill. You can stay simple or get complex. You might also want to invest in an HTML book if you wish to modify the code and go further. All in all, a great experience.

Or… are you perplexed about how to go about designing and publishing a Web site?

An e-mail buddy of mine who lived in New Zealand took the free, online tutorial provided by Maricopa College in Arizona to learn HTML. The site that she put up (“published”) from what she learned about HTML looks very clean, very professional, very understandable. If she can do it, so can you!

🙂

mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/tut/

Please feel free to send a personal message to me on this Forum’s pages for that and I’ll try to help you out the best that I can from not knowing anything more than you have just gotten FrontPage.
 
Whatever you use to build your church’s Web site, you’ll need to consider principles of design.

A good site describing the principles of Web design is the Yale Style Guide.

webstyleguide.com/index.html?/

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By the way, HTML stands for “Hyper Text Markup Language.”

That “HTML 4” stands for current version of HTML that is used – which is version 4.
 
Your church might not need a whole TON of Web space.

Your Web access provider may provide you Web space for no extra charge, already!

I’ve got Comcast.net. For the more e-mail addresses that you set up for yourself under the same main e-mail address – each of those at no extra charge – you get that much more personal Web page space.

Check it out – here —

comcast.net/pwp/
 
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