Week 004 - Domain Thoughts.
Hours: 1/2 - 1.
I've been asking around about domains and the costs of them because I think that is the best way to go. I had a chat with Peter about it today, basically outlining my worries about if it is hosted with EcoCenter and if my fears are legitimate.
Some people came through (I figured I would start with word of mouth and people who are hosted - thus likely to have better service, before I went blind-searching for domain stuff)
One registered their dot com through GoDaddy.com and is $25 and gets his webspace for $13 a month - but he says there are free webspace available, which I kinda remembered that there was too.
Another highly recommends registerfly.com which is US9.99 and 7.99 to renew after a year. I'm a bit finicky about it being in US dollars
He also suggests hostrocket.com for webspace.
But as I was thinking about this - I had a thought. Naomie herself has a dot com! She would know, surely. And we mightn't even have to get additional webspace/hosting if the website is just tagged onto hers. If she has the available space that is - which at the moment looks to be likely, as her website at the moment is currently quite small in size, anyway! :)
But even if that is a problem - I'm sure she HAS to know about hostings and webspace etc.
I think it is pretty likely - if it is the place where I was looking at, which sounds right, because it is at the Botanics in St Kilda, and Tom had said the place was in St Kilda. So I think my website/google search is spot on. Which makes me believe very seriously that we will be held to the constraints of their website and basically all our job will be is to content manage.
I don't know if Tom or Naomie is aware of this - I'm guessing they didn't... else we wouldn't be "employed" to make the website for them, nor would Naomie have suggested the site have potential for changing through the seasons, etc.
So I talked to Peter about the two proposals I laid out in the doco - I also mentioned that we'd have to think about the design of the website, if we wanted it emulated similar to the NY Botanical Garden website (nybg.org) they would have to think about possibly getting a Flash license through Macromedia. Unless they can list themselves as educational? Or under government? I'm not entirely sure about whether they could get around it - I'm assuming that it's going to be expensive... unless they are non-profit? They never said. I printed out a client/software agreement nevertheless.
Peter was worried about that as well coz it means additional cost. We can get around it, if we want to put a pretty animation - we could just make it gifs, but it may make loading very high.
So definitely several things we'll have to talk about with Tom.
Also intellectual property - I want to make sure we can either have an email link or something on their website and some credit, that we designed/created the page...
I've been asking around about domains and the costs of them because I think that is the best way to go. I had a chat with Peter about it today, basically outlining my worries about if it is hosted with EcoCenter and if my fears are legitimate.
Some people came through (I figured I would start with word of mouth and people who are hosted - thus likely to have better service, before I went blind-searching for domain stuff)
One registered their dot com through GoDaddy.com and is $25 and gets his webspace for $13 a month - but he says there are free webspace available, which I kinda remembered that there was too.
Another highly recommends registerfly.com which is US9.99 and 7.99 to renew after a year. I'm a bit finicky about it being in US dollars
He also suggests hostrocket.com for webspace.
But as I was thinking about this - I had a thought. Naomie herself has a dot com! She would know, surely. And we mightn't even have to get additional webspace/hosting if the website is just tagged onto hers. If she has the available space that is - which at the moment looks to be likely, as her website at the moment is currently quite small in size, anyway! :)
But even if that is a problem - I'm sure she HAS to know about hostings and webspace etc.
I think it is pretty likely - if it is the place where I was looking at, which sounds right, because it is at the Botanics in St Kilda, and Tom had said the place was in St Kilda. So I think my website/google search is spot on. Which makes me believe very seriously that we will be held to the constraints of their website and basically all our job will be is to content manage.
I don't know if Tom or Naomie is aware of this - I'm guessing they didn't... else we wouldn't be "employed" to make the website for them, nor would Naomie have suggested the site have potential for changing through the seasons, etc.
So I talked to Peter about the two proposals I laid out in the doco - I also mentioned that we'd have to think about the design of the website, if we wanted it emulated similar to the NY Botanical Garden website (nybg.org) they would have to think about possibly getting a Flash license through Macromedia. Unless they can list themselves as educational? Or under government? I'm not entirely sure about whether they could get around it - I'm assuming that it's going to be expensive... unless they are non-profit? They never said. I printed out a client/software agreement nevertheless.
Peter was worried about that as well coz it means additional cost. We can get around it, if we want to put a pretty animation - we could just make it gifs, but it may make loading very high.
So definitely several things we'll have to talk about with Tom.
Also intellectual property - I want to make sure we can either have an email link or something on their website and some credit, that we designed/created the page...
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