Hey Guys and Girls,

My fiance and I are getting married August 8th of this year and I've been asked to create a website for us. I don't have much experience with creating a website and am looking for some help/suggestions. I've been to a couple of the sites (The Knot.com and ewedding.com) and they seem to have some good tools to help you set it up.

I'm trying to get this done for free but the big thing is it seems all of these sites require a payment if you want to do a custom URL "OurWedding.com" or something along those lines.

Does anyone know of a site I could use that allows things like the online RSVP and a custom URL for either a very low cost or Free?

Thanks,

Duke

 

Who is your ISP? I know Verizon DSL allows you to create your own website. There you could have an mail to link that would allow invitees to reply. As this could be a secondary to your main email, mails would not get mixed in with everything else you get. Secondary address is something else Verizon allows. I would guess your ISP allows the same.

 

Good idea, I'll look into that. My ISP is Comcast.

 

I am 32 and getting invited to like 4 weddings this year. Here is one that my friends wife used.

http://weddings.theknot.com/pwp/pwp_offers.aspx

here is their actual website

http://weddings.theknot.com/pwp/view...309&MsdVisit=1

 

Yeah I was wanting to use ewedding.com to take advantage of the personalized site name but I'm not sure it's worth the roughly $30 for 3 months ($9.95 per month).

I think the leader in the search is "The Knot" so far with a longer URL.

 

Oh, gosh! LOL!

I know of a site that may host it for you... of course, it's goat on goat on girl on cat on penguin action... be careful if grandma clicks an 'external' link.

Seroiusly though, bud... congrats! I can't offer much more than that...

 

Hey Bud!

Holy cow on cow on girl on goat, long time no talk to! Hope all is going well for you and the girls. Thanks for the congrats. We're excited and stressed with working on the wedding (her working, me listening and nodding) and also building our first house. Thos two combined are enough stress to put anyone out cold and I wish it upon nobody.

Pair that with the fact that everything on the truck has managed to break in the past couple weeks, and I'm wearing out my debit card (tires won't seem to stay balanced, loud whining coming from rear end, valve seals leaking, AC stopped working yesterday).

 

It's always something, man. Just wait until you have a house! LOL! You think your truck is bad...

I don't care if it's brand new or 200 years old -- there is *always* something.

Best of luck to you and the wife-to-be. Congrats, buddy.

 

I hear ya. The perfectionist in me is just trying to "get it done perfectly", and it's been an on-going life lesson to learn to accept partial completion in order to not go crazy.

Oh well, breath in and out, right?

 

If you register the website name I'll help you build it. I can't do images but I can "code" it. HTML, PHP, Perl, Etc..

Me and some guys good with imaging could def do some nice stuff.

 

www.moonfruit.com . For sure. It's 100% free. Of course you can pay for a few more options but the basic one is great.

I'm running www.widescreenfx.t83.net from moonfruit and its looking GREAT. I'm using the no-pay edition too. Give it a try. You could have a simple website up in about an hour.


im working on another one called www.bowyerfancentral.t83.net but that one dont have anything on it yet. When i get it started it will be nice.

 

it's good practice for someday you may need a Divorce Website!.......

 

Thanks for the advice guys, I'll read into each of them some more.

JBMX928,

Did the free version on MoonFruit.com allow you to customize the URL? IE. One of your sites is "www.widescreenfx.t83.net". Is the "widescreenfx" the custom part and ".t83.net" the part they selected?


Since something like eWedding.com is more specific towards a wedding site, could I use their free product and then have that long URL forwarded automatically to a custom URL? Where would I go to do that and any idea how much it would cost?


Sorry guys but I'm a complete noob when it comes to this and appreciate all of the help!


OrdnanceCorps,

Thanks for the offer! I would take you up on this but I'm trying to get this up and running today or tomorrow at the latest and don't want to put too much of an undue burden on anyone. If I had more time, I think I'd be up for a "from scratch" approach. We're just trying to get this locked down so we know what URL to put on the invitations.




Thanks again everyone,

Duke

 

Just register a URL with www.GoDaddy.com They have free hosting and email for basic accounts. You will have to put up with a banner on the top. Then you can code your own site or have someone code it for you. Plus if you chose the url title correctly then you can use it for other stuff in the future.

 

Awesome, we're up and running on www.moonfruit.com with a t83.net extension! I opted for just doing the free thing because this is a site that I'll only need running for the next three months as we are getting married on August 8th of this year. Which ironically we didn't even realize till weeks later that it was going to be 08/08/08. It was just the only day available at the place we wanted to get married and thus we picked it.