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Well, should I?

If yes, what domain name should I get? Skillers.com and .co.uk are already taken :(

And what's a cheap domain name registrar?

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Fri Sep 26, 2008 10:48 pm 
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what do u want to put on it?


Sat Sep 27, 2008 10:32 am 
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Just a personal site for the sake of a personal site/learning to write websites (something I've been meaning to do for a while).

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Sat Sep 27, 2008 10:39 am 
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What about Srelliks.co.uk or .com?


Sat Sep 27, 2008 12:42 pm 
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Ya defo worth learning html, very straight forward tbh. Making a good looking site though is very dificult, I'd start off with downloading some free html templates and reworking it into something of your own. Its a good way to learn how a good site is built. Some great html javascripts about to make the site look flashy without using flash.


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It's £3/year for a TLD at most, so I can definitely afford it (I would be using the TCHS server as it won't be very big and we have plenty of space and bandwidth (plus I'm still paying for a fair bit of it).

As for Srelliks, that's not taken, but I generally only use that as a username when Skillers is taken, I'm not sure I'd want a website with that name.

Astro, I actually know a bit of HTML, but I'm not very good at it. I was going to try and learn PHP as I would see that as very useful. It seems fairly logical from what I've seen, just one of those things that needs a bit of learning and practise.

Thanks for the input, more is welcome :)

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I've been trying to learn html, however what I really want to get my head around is CSS. Ah well...

I don't know much about domain names I'm afraid. :(

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From what I can remember about CSS is that you creat a document with all the styles you want in it (including .a and stuff for links), then in the header you put something like <stylesheet="/blah.css"> and throughout the document you use <style="name"> rather than defining the style for each individual object. If you want, I can give you a couple of files from the old comps and cons, as that used a style sheet (I find the best way to see how something works is to have a context for it).

Still need more suggestions for what to call the website :)

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Erm, no thanks Bratty, that's just random.

I was thinking "theskillers.co.uk" though it sounds a bit odd.

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Lets stay on topic, shall we?

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Lol, topic purge, but I did just post that we should get back on-topic.

Anyway, I suggest something completely unrelated to your current name. Do not ask why. Mmm.

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