and the site I'm maintaining (because I mentioned casually I can design and code stuff around the PTB at my community theatre group) is rather crufty, full of slow-loading frames, rife with typos, and was cobbled together using Network Solutions' little "imagecafe" online WYSIWYG toy. I'd like to recode the site by hand (about a dozen pages, all static, a couple forms, possibly a photo gallery in the future, etc) but NS won't let you do that--no ftp access, and you have to use their "professionally designed templates to make your site look its best". Feh.
Question--can I design the site on my machine, dump it to $CHEAP_HOSTER and just adjust the A record to whatever $CHEAP_HOSTER says (and the MX record, should said hoster have emails available)? Is there more to it? There's a faculty on NS's website where I can adjust it to whatever, and allow for propagation time... is it that simple, or are there more hoops? I've designed before, but implementation I've never had to do, beyond throwing stuff on a free-hoster or occasionally running Xitami on my machine and playing with a dynamic dns toy. Now I'm a "technical contact" on a WHOIS. eep.
Any advice/misconceptions? I can/want to do the work, it's just a matter of making sure I have all the right knowledge in front of me. |
