awesome web hosting promotion for anyone who wants to dive into web design/development

special promotion for broke college students (and anybody, really): order a domain and get a year of web hosting for 8 bucks. the domain can be .com, .net or .org. (use coupon code: 1003BPM)

the free web hosting package offered won’t power a huge site, but it’s great to start playing around with minimal commitment. 100mb storage is plenty for static sites and small blogging adventures. the small storage size will also reinforce the importance of optimizing your media for the web. the rest of the hosting package is pretty standard: 1 gig transfer, 10 emails and supports multiple domain names. it also has cpanel, which is my favorite back-end interface for working with website settings.

so hey, eight bucks, and you’ll have the full package. everything else you’ll need to start learning web stuff is free. you can grab some excellent (open source/free) typefaces at the league of moveable type, install wordpress to try your hand at blogging, and hit up smashing magazine for ideas and tutorials.

go learn yourself somethin’ new!

end note: this post was actually sponsored by doteasy. it’s the first time i’ve done a sponsored post, but i am totally behind this promotion. i wouldn’t have done it if i didn’t think it was awesome. cheap web hosting for all!

update: the coupon code was incorrect before (correct: 1003BPM) and many apologies for that! also: you can upgrade to the ultra hosting plan or even unlimited hosting plan to acquire better data resources. (can’t install wordpress with this plan, unfortunately)