A2H GO
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What the most hassle free way to get a personal portfolio/profile website up and running?
Need to be able to use my own domain name and preferably be free and not have the website branding splashed across the bottom of the page.
Doesn't have to be too fancy something simple that works on mobile too like below would be ideal...
http://dumenci.me/
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Gary
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Registered: 22nd Nov 06
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A domain and a bit of hosting isn't expensive, stop being tight
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A2H GO
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I've already got a domain and hosting, that isn't what I was asking.
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Balling
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Registered: 7th Apr 04
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What are you asking? How to code the site?
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A2H GO
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I'm kind of asking how not to have to code the site.
I just want something quick and easy I can sign up to that already offers a personal website/portfolio service that I can assign my own domain name to.
There are so many to choose from it's hard to see what's good and what's not. Most don't allow you to use your own domain and so are free and some arent, so just wondered if any came recommended.
Examples
http://prosite.com/
http://www.bleidu.com/
[Edited on 25-05-2013 by A2H GO]
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ed
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Wordpress. I built my own basic portfolio using Wordpress.
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Dom
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Wordpress and buy a decent theme, you'd have a site running within a day.
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Originally posted by A2H GO
There are so many to choose from it's hard to see what's good and what's not. Most don't allow you to use your own domain and so are free and some arent, so just wondered if any came recommended.
If you've found a few sites that offer the service you're after, why not just trial a few that meet you needs? 
Edit - As for pointing a domain to a service, just use a CNAME DNS entry or at worse case use a redirect.
[Edited on 25-05-2013 by Dom]
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A2H GO
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I already have a Wordpress site up and running so I guess I could do another, I was hoping for something easier than that 
Dom - I will trial a few but thought I'd ask first save wasting time with crap ones.
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Balling
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Registered: 7th Apr 04
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Wordpress for something like this http://dumenci.me/ ???
Talk about overkill!
It's a few lines of HTML.
Just use something like Dreamweaver or one of the many free alternatives if you're uncomfortable with coding it from scratch.
[Edited on 25-05-2013 by Balling]
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ed
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I forgot that some people think writing a little bit of code is difficult. Sorry.
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A2H GO
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Went for Wordpress in the end, took me a couple of hours to get it up and running (made the mistake of going though wordpress.com again to start with  ) and save fannying about just went for a template theme (http://themes.themebakers.com/biopic/portfolio/), since I couldn't find anything as minimal as the one I posted.
I'll perhaps change it up later when I have time, it will do for now.
[Edited on 25-05-2013 by A2H GO]
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pow
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One like the first one I'd have done in notepad2, Nd I don't like writing raw code
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Jay
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Registered: 26th Sep 04
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quote:
Originally posted by Gary
A domain and a bit of hosting isn't expensive, stop being tight
How much isn't expensive? My sisters doing costume make up and she's doing quite well but her free website is awful
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A2H GO
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You can get a domain and hosting for a year for less than £25.
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Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by Jay
quote:
Originally posted by Gary
A domain and a bit of hosting isn't expensive, stop being tight
How much isn't expensive? My sisters doing costume make up and she's doing quite well but her free website is awful
A .co.uk TLD domain will set you back £3-4 and you can grab hosting for as little as £15 a year (Tsohost).
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