It is scarey when I think that most of the peole reading this blog were not even born when “A Fistful of Dollars” was on movie screens across America.  This was the first of three movies that became known as Spaghetti Westerns.  There were three films in the original series and a fourth one, “Duck, You Sucker“, came along later. The four film set, on DVD, is known as the Sergio Leone Anthology.

The reason they were called Spagetti Westerns was the director, Sergio Leone, was from Italy.  Most, if not all, of the scenes were filmed in Spain. These films made Clint Eastwood the star that he is today.  The first of the Spaghetti Westerns was “A Fistful of Dollars“.  I heard that the film was done for $200,000 and that Eastwood made a $15,000 salary.

The first film in the anthology, was a low budget film. It would be hard, if not impossible, to duplicate a film like this today. But we are not talking about making a film. We are talking about getting started on the Internet. So what is the minimum we need to get started for a low budget?

I use www.justwebs.net for all of my domain name purchases. Each one costs around $9.00 per year.  And Justwebs also has web site hosting starting for under $9.00 a month. You can check the web site. They run specials all the time for hosting and domain name purchases.  So the first month you have spent under $20. The second month you will spend under $10. You can get a free Word Press Blog when you get your hosting at www.justwebs.net for free.  It comes with the web site hosting package.

More about getting started and why I like Word Press for my blog next time. 

Bye for now – Gator