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10 Jun
Hi, i want to create a website for me and my friends to just chat, so I need it to be able to leave comments, and for me also to be able to make a forum. I don’t like blog websites, and I think stuff like myspace and bebo is crap. But because it is just for me and my friends I want to know is there one where you have to sign up to that website, like this one where you have to create an account to leave messages, so that just anybody can’t join in. But we also want ‘normal’ webpages as well.
I’ve tried looking, and have come across things like freewebs and geocites – which is useless to us. we have also come across the windows live one, but you need a credit card to sign up…any one any ideas??????? it would also be cool if we could have our own domain name, a few months ago we came across a website that gives you a free domain name, but I can’t remember the site name.
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nopee. if you want it for socializing, its called, myspace, facebook, friendster, or xanga
I remember a while back getting a nice domain name from cjb.cc
There is also .tk for domain names.. hosting is another issue but you can get good hosting lots of places.
edit: oh and for messages, if you’re looking to avoid having to write up your own programming, there are a lot of sites offering forums, or even simple “Guestbooks” which you can add to any personal site.
Freewebs is useless? Why?
They have a few features on there that allow you to set up a chat. & You’ll have a normal webpage.
But anyways…I suggest looking for a guestbook. I mean, aside from an actual forum. Below are a couple sites that look helpful.
have you tried Googlepages.
piczo.com
its fun and easy i have it and all me friends do to u can leave comments and messages too
good luck : )
Google groups is good. You set up your own group about a certain topic or you can use it to chat about general things. Then you invite your friends to join it. It’s good because there are a lot of choices you can make about who can join or read what is on there. You can have it private for just the people you invite or allow anyone to join. Also you can make it so only members can read certain pages as well.
Here is the website:
Try it and see what you think.
if i understand you, you are looking to create a private network fior you and your friends to communicate.
ok try the following.
register for a dynamic domain name. see (other companies offer this free service)
go to and get yourself a copy of the apache webserver. filezilla ftp server and client, hmailserver email server.
now configure your old p3 or better based computer (if you have one laying around unloved in a corner).
install the above software on it. configure the servers as you need them. creating an email account for each of you and your friends.
use your choice of program to design your webpage/site and publish to the folder you choose to serve your site from.
if you don’t have a web page design program you could use page breeze from pagebreeze.com free to use for personal non comercial use.
you would then simply start your server as you need it, you could leave the computer connected at all times or just at aggreed times when you and your friends want to talk.
most free web hosts limit you to only a very small amount of space on the server. if you set up your own server you can have not only an unlimited amount of space, you can have one drive dedicated to serve all your pages from say the root or C: drive and a seperate drive to hold the servers and store your emails, meaning you would have no space limitations beyond the size of the hard drives you use.
for example 1TB (1000GB) is now under £200 affordable for most people these days.
I speak here having in recent months set up a community server suite as detailed above which i’m pleased to say is set up so it correctly stops spam before it can have a negative impact on our server. for example one method amongst others is to stop the server accepting and performing remote to remote server mail requests.
that means only mail to named accounts on our server from named accounts on our server are permitted.
for your needs I believe this option may be your best option.
If you want more advice i accept email requests look me up and mail me. i can give you details of how to secure your site and server. I can also provide you with freeware which i have found and that i use.
oh and for reference the servers are very simple to configure.
the best is create a blog, that is really web with personal managment of content but with professional look
The problem with free web, is the popup, spyes, that is a problems with geocities and other free webserver.
In blog like blogspot.com you have another advantages, that is the positioning
Hi there
This may be way out of center but….there is an australian site with chat, email and all that stuff which is private if you set it that way. Link as follows
Hope this helps
Alice R
sorry I dont know babe.
Heya,
I use a good website for my own website that could be of use to you. Check out – it gives you the opportunity to set up a forum that your friends will be able to access and as a moderator you can chose whether “anyone” “registered users” or “moderator and admin” can read, edit or write new posts.
This means that if all of your friends signed up to the forum (you have the option, I think, to approve all applicants) and you chose “registered users only” for read, edit, write and whatever else, then they could only see the content when they signed in – nobody else could!
You also get a free subdomain of forumcircle.com, so if you wanted to call it “myfriends” you could (probably already taken though!) get
Hope this was of use to you
Jamie
p.s. Forgot to mention that it’s completely free!!
Google Pages
Freewebs
Blogger
Wordpress
My Opera
piczo,myspace,bebo,facebook,
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