There are thousands of scripts out there for both business and social use. To deploy these you need to convert your computer into a web server which although sounding complex is quite easy.

you can create your own social networking, articles, eCommerce, forum, cms, genealogy whatever site you want from thousands of free scripts. Joomla, wordpress Smf, Open cart, webid, classifieds, auction, cooking and recipe sites anything you can possibly think off.

Anybody interested.

M intrestd

Well??? Where's da' beef?

Or. is it a promotional scam to make money?

What is the URL or are you going to put up instructions?

its a scam

I concur. No need to turn your own computer into a web server. It's actually cheaper to rent a DNS server and a host name from a site like
http://www.dreamhost.com, which would also be easier anyways. Thats where I rent mine as a web developer/designer for all my clients and personal uses. Good tech support if you need it, and easy to follow what you need to do, so as long as you know how to write HTML and CSS or know someone that can, your good to go. Also cheap prices for all of their services including AJAX servers for PHP scripting which is fantastic for me as a developer. Not a promotion for dreamhost btw, there are several others out there such as godaddy.com which I have heard is a good place to look as well.

Good luck to all the aspiring web people!

I am a web-programmer and learning to do servlets. Often I run them from my laptop when practicing. I usually use an Apache Tomcat for things such as servlets and JSP pages of the sort. By defualt a web-browser will hit port 80... if you set up a socket to listen with programming to read the request line..you have yourself a very simple server. Servers ten to provide and read header information cantained as a part of HTTP. Character encoding file compression such as gzip , last modified ect.. You simply need to know the 4 byte octet of your IP address and listen on port 80... a little more sophisticated freely available open source software can bu run such as Apache Tomcat, Glassfish you simply need to know how to use them... if you wanted to simply display web-pages using your IP address I could easily tell you....do it all the time.

ALso certain operating systems prolly allow this type of functionality that are designed as server operating systems...although I have never done it certain versions of linux such as solaris are known for providing service in a networking clent server relationship...

1. Sockets if you know network programming
2. Open source software such as Glassfish or Apache Tomcat(have to read a little bit on server configuration..not sure I could do it myself without an IDE like NetBeans or Eclipse..but I could tell you how.
3. Operating systems that provide that type of network functionality

Yes I have godaddy for my web-site. very reasonable rates... just got a bill in the mail for the site...not sure what to think of it... kind of glad you reminded me...