I’ve got a friend who wants me to design a website for him. So, I’ve got a few problems.
- How can you host a website on your own pc?
- How do you put videos/Flash animations on the website?
Well, that should be all.
You need web server software - IIS (Internet Information Services) comes with windows (not sure if it comes with Windows Home edition, but definately with Pro). You can install it from the Windows CD/Windows packages on your pc.
Go to control panel -> Add/Remove Programs -> Windows Components -> Find it in there
Once that’s installed you can simply put your web stuff in the c:\Inetpub\wwwroot folder that IIS creates and navigate to http://localhost/ to view the site.
If you know HTML you’d know how to put videos/flash on the site, I suggest looking at a few HTML articles and the HTML tags. Have a look at the <embed> tag - you can put media content on a page with that
I’ve been told that hosting your own site can be more trouble than what it’s worth, hosting is cheap now I would go with a host other than your own pc.
If your using DW for making your web site go to menu > Insert > Media for adding swf ect.
Oh yeah, if you mean hosting as in actually hosting the site for the net then forget it! Just get some free web hosting 
I just meant for dev purposes 
