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Old 18-10-2017, 11:52 AM
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Greg, what are your requirements "for astrophotos and also business use" is nowhere near enough detail to make a good decision.

Owning your own domain name is essential and can be costly. So consider your end users at all times"gregsbloodyawesomesuperwebsit e.com" doesn't instill a lot of confidence is you are trying to attract business customers."greg.com" likewise doesnt say much to attract anyone. But if you have a business selling Gizmos then gregsgizmos.com would be a better choice at least but what if the market for Gizmos plumets and youstart selling Garden Gnomes? Your website domain should be suitable for your business branding, of course you can buy as many domains as you want of course.

What features do you need in a website? server-side and client-side? Do you know anything about building/maintaining websites at all? If you want to go with an online service look to the ones that have been around a long time as a way to sort them first, dont sort by prices first.

You might want/need a content management system, some hosting companies offer this in their package. If you want to learn and experiment, HTML is the base language for websites and if you have a home internet account you probably already have an empty website you can use at http://www.myinternetprovider.com.au...etaccountname/

you can make a simple photogallery using HTML and JavaScript (the coding language that runs in a web browser). Look into Lightbox.

You really need to well define exactly what you require as well as the funky what you want stuff. Part of why web design is so expensive is a client comes along and says i want a website. It gets built and the client now decides they want a website with a built in search engine, be able to have people buy items, allow people to upload photos or whatever seemingly "simple" request that means the entire site has to be scrapped and rebuilt from scratch numerous times. its a time consuming process and the client is the bottleneck. If they don't know exactly what they want up front and dont change their mind and want to make constant changes during the process it massively increases the time and costs involved.

I've been building custom websites for a living since mid 90s and over ten years for government. The worst part is always the clients. without fail.
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