Do you want your own web site? Do you want it cheap? Of course you do.

Here’s the easy way to start your own web site for under $200:

1. Get a Web Host

This is where the $200 comes in. The money is for two years of hosting. It’s an up-front cost and is the cheapest option. You can always do a month-to-month plan, but it comes out a little more in the end.

I use DreamHost for all my hosting needs, and so far they have been great.  They are cheap, reliable, and hilarious. Take this excerpt from one of their official newsletters:

One thing we do value over here in Japan, is honor. Another thing is loyalty. Let’s get back to this honor thing, because it just reminded me of an old dirty joke very popular in Kansai; “She offered her honor. He honored her offer. And all night long, honor, offer, honor, offer.”

Official DreamHost Newsletter

Now that’s the kind of company I like doing business with. One that’s not afraid to send dirty jokes to their entire customer base. And this one was pretty tame compared to some of the others. Read more >>

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For those of you who enjoying peeking up the skirts of innocent websites, you may have noticed that this site uses XHTML, despite the fact that I get no concrete benefit from using it. Why is that?

Well, let me lay it out for you, and then you can decide if XHTML is worth the extra effort or if HTML is a better choice for you. Read more >>

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That’s right. It truly does not matter whether you code your web pages with the old HTML 4.01 or with the fancy new (well, not new, but still fresh) XHTML1.1.

No matter what DOCTYPE you declare in your code, today’s browsers do the same thing to them. They put them through the old HTML grinder, try to make sense of your mish-mash of tags, and spit out a human readable web page. And hopefully the result is something similar to what you intended.

Why is this? HTML should go to the grinder and XHTML should go to the shiny new food processor, right? Read more >>

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The Inauguration of Elemental Focus Web Design

On Monday January 08, 2007 Elemental Focus was launched in front of a roaring crowd, full of cheering and applause. The audience was screaming, women fainted, and grown men wept as I posted my first article on ElementalFocus.com. Not since the landing of Apollo 11 had so many people gathered to watch a single event.

Sweating under the hot stage lights I delivered my heartfelt thanks to those that made this possible. As flowers were thrown at my feet I delivered a stirring speech to the masses. The single greatest moment of the 21st century had just come to pass. Read more >>

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