"Helpful person" > wrote in message
...
> Just two comments.
>
> In my opinion free is not worth the money you pay for
> it. For about $80 per year I get my own domain, no
> adverts, high speed, unlimited email accounts,
> unbelievable support etc. If you want more
> information I'll post details.
>
> Although it takes some time to learn (maybe 4 weeks
> intensive at a community college unless you can teach
> yourself) I believe it's worth coding yourself and not
> using any canned sites. This way you can keep it
> simple and be able to make structure changes yourself.
> (Do not use a canned program to create html code for
> you.)
>
> However, if you're not happy playing with computers
> this advice is probably useless!
>
> http://www.richardfisher.com

I used to have a website that was free through Verizon (and other ISPs
prior). I let it go when they made the switch over to Frontier because I
really have no need for a website, seeing as how I have Facebook now. I did
not use any canned stuff. I bought a book on HTML and taught myself how to
do stuff. I do know that there are much easier ways now to make a website
than what I did. But I guess it gave me something to do. I did put recipes
on it as well as poems.

I am looking at my bro's website now as he does have some private pages. I
see that he does appear to have his own domain. For the private pages, all
you have to do is make the home page one that requires a password and then
give the appropriate people that password. Sure someone might somehow
stumble onto it via a search engine, but if they don't have the password,
they can't access the page.

I don't know what to tell you about how to make things easy to print as I
never bothered to try to do that. If I find a recipe on a website that
doesn't have easy printing capabilities, I just copy and paste it into an
email to myself and then print it from there.