Your own Web portal On 1-2-3

With GuppY

Are you one of those who want your own website or web portal, but find that it freezes because you do not have your own home area, or that you can anything about HTML, PHP and MySQL, or want to spend any money on this? Then GuppY can be for you.

GuppY is a free web portal distributed under the GPL open source and does not need a separate database such as MySQL. With this, anyone who has a home range with support for PHP via their Internet service provider have their own user forum, poll, guestbook, and that other users can post their own news, links, images, etc. without using a separate database.

With regard to safety, appearance and performance is not GuppY the most attractive gateway and can not be compared to other portal solutions such as PHP-Nuke, XOOPS, e107, and the like, but as a simple alternative to it’s OK. It can also be nice to use as a site for a small sports club, association or fan club.
Via Admin area you can configure the look and placement of various elements such as news box, calendar, search box, user preferences, etc.

Some of the features can be found in GuppY:

• User Login
• News
• Multilingual
• Links
• Download
• Archive
• Guestbook
• Forum
• FAQ
• Poll
• Teller
• Newsletter
• Admin Area
• Search function

How to get started

To test GuppY I created an account with www.1go.dk that offer free web hosting with support for PHP and with a storage of 5MB. Storage space is too small to run the portal where real, but as a test it is good enough for a test site.
After a few minutes ended an e-mail in my inbox where I had to activate my new Web hosting. When the activation was done, it was just waiting for my website was created and wait for another  e-mail that contains all the information I need to set up my new hosting. This can take up to 30 minutes. For my part, it took only 2 minutes.
Now remains to download GuppY web portal and transfer this via FTP to my new Web hosting.

Download GuppY 3.0p3

Transfer via FTP

Once it is downloaded, extract Mon guppy.zip out to a folder and then transfer everything that is inside the folder to the web hotel via an FTP program. 
Now copy or move the files no.gif, no-admin.inc, no-web.inc to this location: inclang
To transfer the site to my new hosting I use only Internet Explorer (IE). Of course you can use your own FTP client, but IE does the job. My FTP address is as follows:
ftp://ftp-guppy-1go:passord @ ftpfree.1go.dk (where "password" is my chosen password)
When the transfer is done, you can surf to your new home page and then log into the Admin area using the default password "pass". This password should be changed to a special password immediately after login.

On his own

Now it's up to you and your imagination and commitment on how the page looks like. You can change text and images as you want, and add your own logo. If one is willing to put some time in this one can get a pretty personal homepage,