[LM_NET] HIT=> free or inexpensive webhosting

[Dawn Hine <thehines@OPTONLINE.NET>]

Hello Group,

Original Post: 

I want to post some original library webquests on the net, but am looking for some 
free or inexpensive web host sites.  I did look in the archives because I remember 
a thread about this last fall or early winter but I must be using the wrong search 
terms. 

If you have any suggestions, please email me off list at thehines@optonline.net

TIA,

Dawn Hine
Librarian, Eastern Suffolk BOCES   Servicing students 5-21 
Patchogue, NY 11772
thehines@optonline.net

HITS (names removed, but Thanks!)

I use teacherweb.com for web hosting and webquests.
they charge $29 a year and you get muti-page webs and
webquests. Hope that helps.

try Office.live.microsoft.com.   They give you a free domain name of YOUR choice, 
and a free web hosting with some pretty cool templates.   You have to use Microsoft 
Internet Explorer, but that isn't a big deal.

www.crystaltech.com has done well for me since I went with them about
four years ago. In my opinion, it is completely, utterly worth the
"small web site" price to be spared the hassles of the free kind, and my
site has been up and running through the assorted "web crises"  that had
many other folks with websites down.  
   
They don't handle spam well, though I suspect if I were just a little
geekier I could figure out how to with their available services.
However, you're not trying to do business online so you don't need your
website address to match your email address; I just use google mail & my
school mail for the most part. 

It's easy to upload, etc. (tho' now that I have Dreamweaver, it's
*totally* painless). I think if I had to upload a whole lot at a time
there might be issues, though.  When I revamped the site I had to
disconnect and connect a lot and that got annoying, but for regular
little updates that doesn't happen.

Hope you get a winner :)

Would these just be for your students, or would they be something that other 
teachers would be likely to want to use also, if you are willing to share?  I use a 
program through Northwestern University that works well for us as a collaborative 
tool.  If it sounds like something you might want to use, let me know and I'll get 
back to you with more information. It is free, has a number of modules--book 
discussion boards, survey tool, and a whole variety of useful things.  It works for 
early grades through university students. ( If you email me, I can forward your 
request to this person)

Thanks so Much

Dawn Hine
Librarian Eastern Suffolk BOCES 
Patchogue NY 11772

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