I would suggest some things:

Register a domain name eg middleeastaircraft.com. Don’t use a so called subdomain such as bt/middleeastaircraft.com since if you want to change the company that connects your computer to the internet (your Internet Service Provider), your web address will change, too. Also you will lose your email address eg [email]keith@bt.com[/email].

What you see on a website is broken down into “pages”. These are computer files containing words and pictures with instructions as to how they should be laid out on the screen. These pages can be prepared and viewed on your own PC, but for others to see them using the internet they need to copied onto a computer known as an internet server. Storing your files on such as server is known as hosting. There are many hosting companies.

Hosting companies will provide a certain limited amount of disc space for storing your web page files. Additionally they will provide a certain limited amount of data transfer – every time someone looks at your website data needs to be transferred from the internet server to their PC.

Music and video can also be stored in a webpage. These take up a lot of space on the internet server disc and involve large amounts of data transfer from the internet server to the PC of anyone listening to music or watching video.

Broadly speaking, the amount of resources used in transferring data from the internet server to all the PC’s of people looking at your webpages is known as the amount of bandwidth used.

“Professional” web site design tools such as Frontpage and Dreamweaver will certainly take scores or hundreds of hours to learn. I don’t know anything about low cost tools that will let you build your own website but I suspect that they will generally be geared to producing simple websites.

Spitfire9 Many thanks for putting it in a straightforward manner. I am not going to do anything with Video or music, I want to keep it very simple to start with.The domain name advice is useful as well as I want it to stand out.

If you let us know who your service provider is then you could have some very specific information about what you already have available to you. Otherwise all you will get is generic information – a bit like asking which car you should buy next. Unless you have a need to spend money I would suggest this might be a sensible way to get advice specific to your self and potentially cheaper than buying a program such as Dreamweaver or Photoshop!.

Chris – I have not got as far as the service provider yet. Basically I have the raw material and I want to next give a bit of thought as to how I am going to organise the site – by time periods or locations/areas or both. From what I am starting to see about Dreamweaver it sounds very good but beyond my capablilities at the moment. I have at least moved on quite a bit from the advice given to me a couple of weeks ago that I needed a “host” and that was it??:confused: