Website advice

[ladypanther]

I am working on starting a pottery business. This will be part time...in addition to my full time job. Plan to sell mostly at festivals with a couple of local outlets.

I want to have a website with a few pics and information about the pottery. Don't want people to be able to buy from the site..prefer they email me.

So a simple site.

So...anyone got any recommendations about where to go to get a decent little website for a good price?

[lymelizzard]

I am working on starting a pottery business. This will be part time...in addition to my full time job. Plan to sell mostly at festivals with a couple of local outlets.

I want to have a website with a few pics and information about the pottery. Don't want people to be able to buy from the site..prefer they email me.

So a simple site.

So...anyone got any recommendations about where to go to get a decent little website for a good price?

http://wordpress.com/

[Floppin]

I own a website design company. What are you looking to spend?

[Wither]

I own a website design company. What are you looking to spend?

You also have some felony drug charges to your name.

:p

[ladypanther]

I own a website design company. What are you looking to spend?

As a start up....on a thin shoe string.

It is something that will grow slowly. Will not really generate business through the website...for a while. Pottery is something you have to see and connect with.

Wish I could afford a company like yours. Hope I get there.

[bigjohn]

Ladypanther

You might talk to a local high school business department or community college. They may have some kids that will build you a site as a class project. If you're close to the Charlotte area, I have some kids that might help.

Or if you want to learn a bit, you could put your own wordpress site together without too much trouble.

[Gazi]

If you're on a thin budget and just starting your business you should get some shared hosting, download wordpress and purchase a wordpress pro theme and integrate paypal with it.

You should be good to go

[Floppin]

You also have some felony drug charges to your name.

:p

What the fug did this have to do with anything? You just felt like being an ass?

[Herbert The Love Bug]

oh shat son. this cray cray

[Inimicus]

LP, Ive been doing business software and web development for 15 years and am currently the Director of IT for a pretty large not for profit here in NC.

Wordpress is a fine software pkg and if you were going to be doing anything that resembled blogging it would be my first choice.

But for what you describe I would advise you to give serious consideration to a Godaddy account and site. They are cheap and the website designer is pretty simple for non-techy folks to use. They have a huge tech support group and are a great gateway for folks just starting out with their first website.

[mmmbeans]

if you have a mac iweb is cake.

[Lumps]

Post an add on craigslist, maybe a student will help you out. Here are some free ones I know of.

MSN communities, Godaddy, Yahoo Geocites and angel fire are always userfriendly, the MSN one is VERY friendly. The issue with anything free is there will be probably be some sort of site link or advertising.

If you're going to manage files for a site and design and aren't comfortable with HTML it yourself I suggest paying for it. Believe it or not the design of the site is part of the buisness whether you think so or not. Pure marketing schemes, it needs to be organized in a certain way. You'll have to pay for hosting either way, you might as well spend on someone to set it up right.

[Floppin]

LP, Ive been doing business software and web development for 15 years and am currently the Director of IT for a pretty large not for profit here in NC.

Wordpress is a fine software pkg and if you were going to be doing anything that resembled blogging it would be my first choice.

But for what you describe I would advise you to give serious consideration to a Godaddy account and site. They are cheap and the website designer is pretty simple for non-techy folks to use. They have a huge tech support group and are a great gateway for folks just starting out with their first website.

If you decide to go with Godaddy, I have a godaddy reseller account, I can get you hosting for cheaper than you can get from their normal site. I'll give it to you at cost, which is about 30% cheaper than normal users can get.

[mmmbeans]

If you decide to go with Godaddy, I have a godaddy reseller account, I can get you hosting for cheaper than you can get from their normal site. I'll give it to you at cost, which is about 30% cheaper than normal users can get.

i'll remember this next time i re-up with them.