Comments on: How to spend your measly technology budget http://www.wendycholbi.com/2009/12/how-to-spend-your-measly-technology-budget/ Bite-sized bits of hope and safety help release you from your technology fears and stucknesses Sat, 24 Jul 2010 15:51:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Kaushik | beyond-karma.com http://www.wendycholbi.com/2009/12/how-to-spend-your-measly-technology-budget/comment-page-1/#comment-263 Kaushik | beyond-karma.com Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:51:57 +0000 http://www.wendycholbi.com/?p=3724#comment-263 Thanks for the awesome pointers! So with audioacrobat there is no excuse not to provide audio. Drat! .-= Kaushik | beyond-karma.com´s last blog ..<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BeyondKarma/~3/P-AO6MPXlPE/" rel="nofollow">How to mend a broken heart</a> =-. Thanks for the awesome pointers! So with audioacrobat there is no excuse not to provide audio. Drat!
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]]> By: Wendy Cholbi http://www.wendycholbi.com/2009/12/how-to-spend-your-measly-technology-budget/comment-page-1/#comment-262 Wendy Cholbi Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:58:27 +0000 http://www.wendycholbi.com/?p=3724#comment-262 Hi Mark, thanks for joining the conversation and suggesting DotEasy. I took a look and they're very clear about the fact that they don't put ad banners on sites hosted under their free plan, which is great. The only caveat that I see (and I'm not a customer - this is just from my five-minute tour of the DotEasy site) is that hosting is free IF you register a domain name with them, which costs $25/year. While that's more than the $10/year going rate for domain names, it's also far less than paying a $10/month hosting fee. Looks like it's worth considering for those who aren't quite ready for WordPress. As for our advice being the same...that's quite cool, and all I can say is "great minds think alike!" Hi Mark, thanks for joining the conversation and suggesting DotEasy. I took a look and they’re very clear about the fact that they don’t put ad banners on sites hosted under their free plan, which is great.

The only caveat that I see (and I’m not a customer – this is just from my five-minute tour of the DotEasy site) is that hosting is free IF you register a domain name with them, which costs $25/year. While that’s more than the $10/year going rate for domain names, it’s also far less than paying a $10/month hosting fee. Looks like it’s worth considering for those who aren’t quite ready for WordPress.

As for our advice being the same…that’s quite cool, and all I can say is “great minds think alike!”

]]> By: Mark http://www.wendycholbi.com/2009/12/how-to-spend-your-measly-technology-budget/comment-page-1/#comment-240 Mark Sat, 12 Dec 2009 07:25:38 +0000 http://www.wendycholbi.com/?p=3724#comment-240 Hi Wendy. I really like this series of articles you're writing, I think they're great for the beginner wondering what to do and where to start. I've been doing something similar myself and it is reassuring to know our advice is effectively the same. A note on the free hosting... I've used DotEasy for many years now. They do offer ad-free hosting if you only need very basic hosting (no database for WordPress). This makes it a perfect solution for freely putting a Blogger blog on your own domain. They also have a few nice (free) tools for creating forms etc. At this moment in time, my site and blog are hosted freely with DotEasy. In all honesty, I'm considering the move to WordPress and paid hosting. However, for your readers with a limited budget, DotEasy could be well be worth looking at. .-= Mark´s last blog ..<a href="http://onlinebusinessconsultant.co.uk/articles/2009/12/top-3-essentials-for-starting-blog.html" rel="nofollow">Top 3 Essentials for Starting a Blog</a> =-. Hi Wendy. I really like this series of articles you’re writing, I think they’re great for the beginner wondering what to do and where to start. I’ve been doing something similar myself and it is reassuring to know our advice is effectively the same.

A note on the free hosting… I’ve used DotEasy for many years now. They do offer ad-free hosting if you only need very basic hosting (no database for WordPress). This makes it a perfect solution for freely putting a Blogger blog on your own domain. They also have a few nice (free) tools for creating forms etc.

At this moment in time, my site and blog are hosted freely with DotEasy. In all honesty, I’m considering the move to WordPress and paid hosting. However, for your readers with a limited budget, DotEasy could be well be worth looking at.
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