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So, you've got that arfer.net thing of yours -- how do people generally build a personal site like that? Like, I work at the internet and I don't even know. Got any pointers for a would-be personal place-to-put-my-junk-online webpage designer?

(This is not for me, incidentally -- a guy I know, his mom bought his domain for his birthday, and he asked me for tips and, man, I dunno where baby webpages come from.)
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Was it a car or a cat I saw?

>_>
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I've looked at the world for quite a few years now and I've found that if I don't laugh, I'll probably end up crying.

I don't know!
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Was it a car or a cat I saw?

Lets start small. Does he want to put up a static site that can be viewed only by users?
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I've looked at the world for quite a few years now and I've found that if I don't laugh, I'll probably end up crying.

I have a friend that does custom web things.

But she doesn't code them either she just hires freelance designers/coders/dbas/etc who do that. It's possible that no one knows what a webpage is.
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Willis, it seems like every other time you post, I need to look up a word that's in the OED or Urban Dictionary but not both.
-Mimir

Man, I don't know what the dude wants. You can't recommend some books?
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Was it a car or a cat I saw?

Just have him start with some HTML, CSS and JavaScript tutorials, just to get the basics down. Then make sure he looks at jQuery, which makes websites do cool things pretty easily.
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"I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific."

Word Press?
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Willis, it seems like every other time you post, I need to look up a word that's in the OED or Urban Dictionary but not both.
-Mimir

WordPress is built on PHP, which is useful to know, but kind of scary to jump into first thing. If the goal is just a very generic Wordpress website, then go ahead. But if your friend wants to customize it to any extent, then HTML and PHP knowledge is a must.
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"I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific."

Oh dear. Well, as you are probably more or less aware, there are many general approaches to building websites, which vary along two dimensions of fanciness: how much fanciness you implement yourself, as by doing tricks with CSS or HTML5 or JavaScript or Flash or sever-side code or site-building code on your own machine, and how much pre-packaged fanciness you avail yourself of in the form of specialized design software (such as Dreamweaver), Web frameworks (such as Ruby on Rails or Catalyst), JavaScript libraries, and so on. There are potentially a great many decisions to be made about what kind of fanciness you want. As a rule, people are terrible at making these decisions, because they don't know what they're doing. Not to mention that many of these varieties of fanciness (e.g., Dreamweaver) are tailored to people who don't know what they're doing, and therefore generally serve the purpose of enabling incompetence:

From: willis5225 | Posted: 5/17/2012 11:21:29 PM | #005
I have a friend that does custom web things. But she doesn't code them either she just hires freelance designers/coders/dbas/etc who do that.

The Web would be a better place without people like her.

What is boils down to, though, is what you want to do. If I understand correctly, your friend just needs a page of text with, perhaps, some images. This can be accomplished pretty easily. Here is a template:

http://arfer.net/x/html-template

For some free hosting on which to put your page, x10hosting is a reasonable choice:

http://x10hosting.com/

Also, your friend knows that you can't buy a domain name, only register it for fixed periods of time, right?

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Jordan, quoting Genesis 2:18: "It is not good for man to be alone."
Fred: "in genesis noah also put two of every animal on a boat when he was 600."

Also, your friend knows that you can't buy a domain name, only register it for fixed periods of time, right?

Making for interesting escapades when the owner of a popular website forgets to renew the domain name and someone else steals it.
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"I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific."

Looks like some handy stuff. Thanks! I'll pass all that stuff along.
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Was it a car or a cat I saw?