How to get a free website in minutes

Posted on June 4, 2007 
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‘Free Websites’ and ‘Free Webpages’ are advertised throughout the search engines.
YES they are free and YES it is possible to create your own website with a number of these free website builder services. 

Here’s the story …

We found our daycare provider (let’s call her Jane) through an advertisement in our newspaper and a link to her website. The website was well laid out with lots of information about the daycare facility, services, hours of operations, guidelines, photos and all the information you would need for the care of your child. The website also gave us confidence in her services, her credentials and the care she was to provide for our child.

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Website Template Tips

Posted on June 1, 2007 
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Had a good conversation today with a friend about the type of website he is requiring for his business and the topic of website templates came up.

Obviously he wants his website to look good, give a professional image to his clients and something simple enough that he can manage himself with Adobe Dreamweaver.

I cringe when someone says they want to manage their own website because questions like “Do they know how to upload files?”, “What is they delete a file?”, “Will I need to provide training?”, etc.

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Defining website structure

Posted on May 31, 2007 
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The importance of defining website structure is end user usability. If you make it easy for them to find information on your site, they stay longer and come back for more. Planning ahead and creating a good site structure will also help you in the future when you need to add or expand your website.

Simple questions to ask are:

  1. How will the user navigate through the site? Menu based, text links, buttons?
  2. How will the user complete the task at the website?
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What will your website do?

Posted on May 29, 2007 
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Probably the most important item to figure out before launching or creating your own website is answering the question “what do you want your website to do?”

This is one of the first questions I will ask anyone wanting a website. The answers are always different.

The photograhy case

Today I met with an old friend of mine who recently got in to photography. He has spent money on equipment, joined associations, networked amongst friend but has still yet to print and produce business cards for his business. Why? Because he does not have a website.

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A new project and weblog

Posted on May 26, 2007 
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Yesterday an old client came to visit me wanting a new website.

“Here we go again” I thought to myself.

The benefit of working with this client is that they are easy to work with, they understand the value a website brings to their business and they basically left it in my hands to come up with something that will clearly present their business.

An open plate, freedom to do what I want, freedom to choose my own colors & design … not quite.

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