Website Help?

If you are looking just for places to host images, there are many; do a serch for "image hosting." The one I mainly use when I need to show people some images is tinypic.

Also, another place to go for webspace if you are looking for text kind of things, would be a free blog site, such as livejournal.com (which interfaces niceley with a downloadable program called Semagic) or blogger.com (which interfaces nicely with Hello and Picassa). Blogger/Hello/Picassa are all owned by Google.

To have a website, you need to have a computer connected on the internet that offer the http service. The you build your website on this computer. There are many ways to achieve this goal.

If you have a permanent internet connection, you can build you own server and make your webpage on it, but you won't have any domain name ( you will use the IP address). Of course you must know something about computers to install the server. Microsoft has made a userfriendly server caller IIS, but it is far the most secure, performant and free server available. I suggest Apache on linux.

If you know a friend how has a server on the web or if you have an account on a server at work, school or on another that allows their user to make their personal web page then you can make your website there.

Now if you want, there are some companies/organisation that hook their server on the net and they sell/give some part of their hardrive. You you pay/get a certain amount of web space and a certain amount of bandwith. The web sites like geocities and tripod are giving some free web space, in exchange, they generally force you to place some of their advertisement on your website.

So the choice is yours according to what you have access.

Now for making the website itself, if you want to make a simple non-dynamic page, you generaly need to use HTML. There are many tool out there that allows you to generate html pages (even Word can save in html). Some website like geocities have their own editing tool directly on the web.

HTML is easy to learn and you do not need any programming knowledge since there is no algorithmy. If you want to make some dynamic web site, for example this forum is a dynamic website, then I strongly suggest PHP, but you need also to learn HTML and have some programming knowlege.

There is also another language called XML. It is supposed to be more powerfull than HTML, but I have not tried to learn it. I can do everything I want with PHP and HTML so I am happy.

leadingedge,

Another *simple* option,

Use Blogger, via google. http://zzzzzgameblog.blogspot.com

It will allow you to create a blog, and upload image files. So I would just blog your rules as text, and include your iamges.

I think they allow you to have something like 300mb of space. So it might work for you.

In our case, we made a firewall that runs on the server and only protect the server itself.

Else, you can have a fire wall for your whole network, but your firewall computer must be between the network and the internet connection. Which mean that you generally need 2 network cards on the same computer to make the bridge between internet and your network.