I recently had to move my tiny, rudimentary website from the "free"
ukonline to 123-reg. I
imagine that there are fewer and fewer "freely" hosted sites these
days. The new host
was very helpful when I failed initially to get the thing working.
Well, my domain name name is with 123-reg, although my QL website runs
on Tony Firshman's servers. I have nothing but praise for his service
and very reasonable prices.
Even when we had to migrate my site to new servers, I think it all
went 100% perfectly. Plus of course Tony understands our particular
needs when creating QL-focused websites and is always prepared to try
to help.
My personal website and one or two others I maintain are all done in
the old fashioned way, a "tag view" editor and Filezilla to upload the
pages. Not the most modern way of doing things, but it works, and both
my personal website and the others I maintain are reasonably quick and
up to date and intentionally not all "bells and whistles." If I had to
list software I'd like to see for the QL it would be:
1. Email client (possible, but a lot of work - Jonathan Hudson's
programs exist)
2. Browser (unlikely, but not impossible - Lynx already exists)
3. Website editing software (possible, but a lot of work)
4. Modern WP/DTP software (unlikely, but not impossible -
Paragraph/Prowess exists already)
I look forward to the time when my site address will eventually
appear on the QUANTA site
which is quick and easy to follow - but a bit slow on the update.
I look forward to being able to edit the news pages again!
The new link to your website is on my QL site links page, but I will
need to check that the "QL Search Engine" picks it up, though, which I
forgot to check (it can be forced to look at specified websites, which
makes it find new sites more quickly).
Actually, if anyone else wants to implement a QL-specific search
engine like the one on my website, I'd be happy to share details of
how to go about it.
Dilwyn Jones
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