Just wondering what you've all done in terms of creating a website for you business. Did you create them yourselves? If so where did you do it? who's your web host? Did you design the site yourself? Or have a professional do it? What type of costs are involved in all of this?
Rachel
I created my own... I'm by far no professional lol ... I went through Yahoo and got my domain name and I used their sitebuilder program... they offer page templates you can use but I created my own ... I didn't care for the ones they offered ..
there are so many different web hosts out there and costs vary from cheap to very expensive.. it's all in what you want to pay and what you want really .. mine runs $11.95 per month and I've had many hits on because of my website.. as a matter of fact, I sold a wedding cake and a groom's cake this month and I have a family reunion/birthday combination cake for next month, all as a result of my website...
If you are totally unfamiliar with building a webpage, check at some local universities... a lot will offer leisure learning courses on how to do this and it's usually not too expensive to take their course... good luck!!
I created my own... I'm by far no professional lol ... I went through Yahoo and got my domain name and I used their sitebuilder program... they offer page templates you can use but I created my own ... I didn't care for the ones they offered ..
there are so many different web hosts out there and costs vary from cheap to very expensive.. it's all in what you want to pay and what you want really .. mine runs $11.95 per month and I've had many hits on because of my website.. as a matter of fact, I sold a wedding cake and a groom's cake this month and I have a family reunion/birthday combination cake for next month, all as a result of my website...
If you are totally unfamiliar with building a webpage, check at some local universities... a lot will offer leisure learning courses on how to do this and it's usually not too expensive to take their course... good luck!!
If anyone here is looking for web hosting Jackie and I own a web hosting business. We have rates that start as low as $4.95 a month.
www.jdchosting.com
you know you can trust the source
I have someone doing mine who is cheaper than most places and he does a great job...email me if you want more info
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Just wondering what you've all done in terms of creating a website for you business. Did you create them yourselves? If so where did you do it? who's your web host? Did you design the site yourself? Or have a professional do it? What type of costs are involved in all of this?
Rachel
I created my website by getting website builder from the online vendor Tucktail.com by the following way..
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Just wondering what you've all done in terms of creating a website for you business. Did you create them yourselves? If so where did you do it? who's your web host? Did you design the site yourself? Or have a professional do it? What type of costs are involved in all of this?
Rachel
I created my website by the following way.
1.Domain name registration:
Whenever you choose a domain name you should keep in mind the following instructions.
1.Domain name must be short.
2.Try to avoid too many '_' symbol in your domain name.
3.Get the domain name that related to your business or product or organization.
4.Your domain name extension must be a famous one like .com,.net,.org,etc.
After choosing a good domain name,register it with a good domain registrar
2.Website building:
Building a website includes designing a web page, Coding , editing and adding all necessary contents to a website. If you build a website for small type of business,try to get web builder service otherwise you should get web designing service from any one of the online service provider.
3.Hosting:
List out some points while consider to choose a hosting provider.
1.Good quality service,
2.Cheap price,
3.Good bandwidth,
4.24/7 Customer support.
5.Server uptime
4.Publish your website:
Publishing your website is making your website visible and accessible on world wide web through the server of
your web host.I got all the above services from Tucktail.com .They will provide well customer support.For the website builder i am spending $4.99/month ,for domain registration and $9.99/yr for web hosting $3.99 /month
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Just wondering what you've all done in terms of creating a website for you business. Did you create them yourselves? If so where did you do it? who's your web host? Did you design the site yourself? Or have a professional do it? What type of costs are involved in all of this?
Rachel
I created my website by the following way.
1.Domain name registration:
Whenever you choose a domain name you should keep in mind the following instructions.
1.Domain name must be short.
2.Try to avoid too many '_' symbol in your domain name.
3.Get the domain name that related to your business or product or organization.
4.Your domain name extension must be a famous one like .com,.net,.org,etc.
After choosing a good domain name,register it with a good domain registrar
2.Website building:
Building a website includes designing a web page, Coding , editing and adding all necessary contents to a website. If you build a website for small type of business,try to get web builder service otherwise you should get web designing service from any one of the online service provider.
3.Hosting:
List out some points while consider to choose a hosting provider.
1.Good quality service,
2.Cheap price,
3.Good bandwidth,
4.24/7 Customer support.
5.Server uptime
4.Publish your website:
Publishing your website is making your website visible and accessible on world wide web through the server of
your web host.I got all the above services from Tucktail.com .They will provide well customer support.For the website builder i am spending $4.99/month ,for domain registration and $9.99/yr for web hosting $3.99 /month
AI first payed someone to make us one. Turned out horrible. After we paid her, two weeks later i took it down and did it ourselves. MILLION times better. Lot of places offer drag and drop softwares which is a great starting point. The good thing about controlling your own website is you can make changes on your own anytime. Especially updating cake pictures. We are with ipage.
Go check out wix.com - I cant say enough good things about them! The templates are easy and really nice looking, plus you can customize them however you like. Super easy to add new pictures and extra pages to your site. For $100/yr they will connect to your domain name and plus you get free ad credits with google ads and Facebook. Customer service is superb.
If you are starting out you should create a wordpress site, http://wordpress.org/hosting/ are just some. What you want to look for is a host that has one click wordpress installation.
In regards to design I would buy a design it you can buy designs for less that $10 on places like "theme forest"
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