# Got a few problems

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/got-a-few-problems/264474>\
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**Created:** [June 26, 2008, 1:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/got-a-few-problems/264474 "2008-06-26T13:45:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![tkmk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@tkmk](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/tkmk)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2008, 1:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/got-a-few-problems/264474/1 "2008-06-26T13:45:13Z")

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I’ve got a friend who wants me to design a website for him. So, I’ve got a few problems.

1. How can you host a website on your own pc?
2. How do you put videos/Flash animations on the website?

Well, that should be all.

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**Author:** ![Charleh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9a28c/32.png) [@Charleh](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Charleh)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2008, 2:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/got-a-few-problems/264474/2 "2008-06-26T14:26:45Z")

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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/](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

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**Author:** ![thats\_all\_folks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e0b2c6/32.png) [@thats\_all\_folks](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/thats_all_folks)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2008, 2:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/got-a-few-problems/264474/3 "2008-06-26T14:57:42Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![Charleh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9a28c/32.png) [@Charleh](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Charleh)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2008, 4:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/got-a-few-problems/264474/4 "2008-06-26T16:28:59Z")

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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 😛