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Originally Posted by DTD
Hi'
I want to build a community website with the following functionality; member registration,articles, blogs and video with message and archive capabilities, periodic chat room and links to partner sites. When the traffic increases, I want to add a forum. I was give a price by a web developer of $10,000-$15,000. My domain name is registered.
I have looked at Lisa's site and Go Daddy's Website tonight? Can I build this site myself with the functionality listed above? What is the best product to use?
Also, if I use an off the shelf product such as the ones listed above or others, will I have to accept advertising? In my particlular business model there won't be any advertising.
Thanking all of you in advance.
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I have no idea how much this sort of website costs. That sounds very expensive to me but then again your looking for a myspace sort of website. That could be the right price for this task but my advice would be to contact a few web developers just to make sure the price is accurate.
Im sure you could buy a program for this sort of website but you will need to know html/css and php. Building this sort of website will be a hard task even for a confident coder.
For this sort of website you may get away with shared hosting (this is cheap $20 and under a month hosting. It means your website is on a server shared by others) but these sort of websites are normaly hosted on dedicated servers ($200/month and more).
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In my particlular business model there won't be any advertising.
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What do you mean by this?