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Arsenal
Citizen
Username: Arsenal
Post Number: 14
Registered: 8-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, August 7, 2005 - 2:19 pm: |     |
If this question has been posed before, sorry.
As part of the Comcast "package" of home internet service they provide the ability setting up a personal web page. I've attempted this a number of times in the past, but have been unable to get the process to work.
All I really want to do it post movies/pictures of my family.
Has anyone else run into this issue? Many thanks, |
TomD
Citizen
Username: Tomd
Post Number: 121
Registered: 5-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, August 7, 2005 - 6:31 pm: | |
You can do it, but I'd advise against it. The thing is, if you set up your site on comcast, it is their way of locking you in. Same with using a comcast email address--it locks you into their high speed internet (for email, get gmail or use yahoo [pl me if you need a gmail invite]).
Post your pictures and make your own pages, but put them someplace else. There are many free and very low cost hosting options out there (Yahoo! Geocities, fortunecity, freeservers.com...so many, just google free web hosting) that won't lock you into a single service provider. You can even buy (for <$10) your own domain name and one of these free services will host it for you and you can simply tell your family go to http://www.arsenalfamilypictures.com (or whatever you choose as your domain name).
With your comcast web site and comcast email, if you ever leave comcast, your accounts get deleted. With yahoo or gmail (for example) it doesn't matter who you get your internet access from. |
upondaroof
Citizen
Username: Upondaroof
Post Number: 266
Registered: 4-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, August 7, 2005 - 9:34 pm: | |
I agree with TomD as he describes it, but I think Arsenal is looking to just set up a web "page", the free come on that most ISP's offer. I have several with AOL and supposedly, Cablevision (Optonline), which I have also, offers this, but I too would like to set mine up, but can't. They're OK for biz blurbs and family pix and what the hell man, you're supposed to get this with your subscription, so how do we do it???
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TomD
Citizen
Username: Tomd
Post Number: 122
Registered: 5-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, August 7, 2005 - 10:19 pm: | |
Well, comcast has a basic web page builder (no html required). If you go to http://www.comcast.net, log in and click on Personal Web Pages in the left hand menu bar it will take you to a page that will walk you through it. Just keep in mind that if you ever cancel your comcast service, your web site (and your email on the server) immediately go *poof*. |
upondaroof
Citizen
Username: Upondaroof
Post Number: 269
Registered: 4-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, August 7, 2005 - 10:55 pm: | |
TomD writes: " Just keep in mind that if you ever cancel your comcast service, your web site (and your email on the server) immediately go *poof*."
It's not a web site! It's a page!!
Yourownname.com is a great idea, but until everyone cops a url, the "free" home page is the route to go if you want to post up photos and fam events.
I also have staked my claim to a url, but as of yet, its sitting undeveloped, but until then my e-mail goes to my ISP, (and a few other places).
If you're really looking for security, have your e-mail and home page, sent to Mom and Dad's provider!! |
TomD
Citizen
Username: Tomd
Post Number: 125
Registered: 5-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, August 7, 2005 - 11:50 pm: | |
Web site, web page...just semantics. If you are talking about a web page that contains photos to share with family members (for example), you're are talking about (at least) one html page (though probably more) and multiple image files. Even this simplest web page involves at least several files; if not dozens of files; if not hundreds of files.
It doesn't matter whether the page(s) are hosted at http://www.comcast.net/~username/familyphotos.html or at http://www.myfamilyphotos.com.
The files needed to make the pages appear are the same. It may be a single page in your browser (and it probably won't be for very long), but it certainly won't be a single disk file. Because it will be many files, I call it a web site. Call it a page if that makes you more comfortable, but you are still almost certainly dealing with multiple files, all of which would need to be moved off comcast servers if you ever decided to leave comcast (lest they be deleted).
The other advantage to not using the ISP email address is that if you do change your email you don't need to update everyone and everything you've ever subscribed to. Think about all of the places and people who know and use your isp hosted email address. Now think about what a pain in the rear it would be to have to have a brand new email address tomorrow (and not have access to the old one). That is why isp's want you to use their email. It is a way of making it harder for you to switch service providers.
Again, if you'd like a gmail invite, just pl me and I'll happily send it along.
Even better, I think, is using a mail forwarder. For my main email address, I always use my address @ alum.syracuse.edu which forwards to any email address I want. Many colleges off this service to alumni. |
Sgt. Pepper
Citizen
Username: Jjkatz
Post Number: 1339
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Friday, August 12, 2005 - 11:48 am: | |
Your web pages do not go *poof* if you keep local backup copies of the pages. Our site is hosted by Comcast. Our account will be closed at the end of this month because we're moving. When I put the site back up with our new ISP, I'll send an e-mail to our friends and family with the new URL. Not exactly a huge problem.
I will say that the Comcast FTP upload software bites. I use WS_FTP Pro to upload my pages. |
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