Websites-who maintains yours?

[Shaquantae O]

I had a friend of mine design and maintain my website for a while, and I LOVE my site, I couldn't do anything that creative on my own. However, he has been very flaky lately and I can't rely on him to make changes, and when I tried to make a change, I messed something up (you can see what I'm talking about on the Services page, I somehow took out the graphics there). I would like to re-build/re-design my website and am looking for an easy HTML editor and some templates. I downloaded a free trial of Dreamweaver but man, that is involved!

Anyone have any ideas? I really can't afford to pay someone to design a new site and maintain it right now and for as little as I need to make changes, this is something I could do on my own, it's just finding a program easy enough to work with yet still professional looking.

Here's my site as it is now, http://www.massagebyrebecca.net

 

[musicismyhottsexx]

Hi Rebecca,

I do it myself with the help of websitetonight at godaddy. They give you templates to choose from and I plug in the rest. It is easy and just about fool proof. It is nothing fancy, no flash or anything like that. Just a good easy website. I get comments from clients every now and then because of its ease to use.

I changed the format of my menu about 6 months back, and I am not 100% happy with it, but it suffices.

 

[Me.]

Figures, I find something easy to use just when I renewed my account with Brinkster (they are the site that hosts me now)....

 

[gravitate]

You could consider finding someone to barter with. Massage for website building/changing and etc. I am big into bartering.

The best bet would be to find a list of all website maintenance people in your area and send out a letter. Citysearch may do the trick. If not, you could try the online yellowpages (I linked to it for you - all over the US, but you can refine it to your region easily) for "website maintenance".

This is just a very rough idea of a letter, but it may give you something to build on.


Dear
Godaddy hosts. I've never had any problems with them and their price is good. Excellent customer service.

I have a free invisible counter with StatCounter. It only tracks the last 100 hits, you have to pay if you want more. Since I check it daily, it's no problem. It's been very useful to know where my hits are coming from.

Hope that helps!

Sally
Barefoot in Cozumel

I created my own with Dreamweaver, but I've always picked up computer stuff easily enough. I can see where it might be overwhelming to others with less experience.

Godaddy hosts. I've never had any problems with them and their price is good. Excellent customer service.

I have a free invisible counter with StatCounter. It only tracks the last 100 hits, you have to pay if you want more. Since I check it daily, it's no problem. It's been very useful to know where my hits are coming from.

Hope that helps!

Sally
Barefoot in Cozumel











Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 3:53 am














Pandoras_Gift






 
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I created my own with iWeb through .Mac, and bought my domain through godaddy. It was very easy to set up, and cost me under $200. I just have to continue paying the hosting fees...

I am very happy that I can add anything I want, change it around whenever I want... and haven't had any problems.

I created my own with iWeb through .Mac, and bought my domain through godaddy. It was very easy to set up, and cost me under $200. I just have to continue paying the hosting fees...

I am very happy that I can add anything I want, change it around whenever I want... and haven't had any problems.











Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 8:57 pm














jyoti






 
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We built our own--from scratch

It has gone through several incarnations! It's a process, a journey, a trial-and-error. We're always changing, updating, proofreading, etc.

We bought a webpage-building program a few years ago and used that. It's quirky but relatively user-friendly. You don't need to know HTML code, a lot of it is drag-and-drop or inserting pictures/formatting text, that sort of thing. My husband fumbled around with it for a little while but then got the hang of it. According to one of my clients who builds websites for a living, my site would probably have easily cost us several thousand dollars to have built for us! When we were starting out we had all the time in the world and not much of a budget, so this solution worked perfectly for us

Hugs,
~Jyoti

We built our own--from scratch

It has gone through several incarnations! It's a process, a journey, a trial-and-error. We're always changing, updating, proofreading, etc.

We bought a webpage-building program a few years ago and used that. It's quirky but relatively user-friendly. You don't need to know HTML code, a lot of it is drag-and-drop or inserting pictures/formatting text, that sort of thing. My husband fumbled around with it for a little while but then got the hang of it. According to one of my clients who builds websites for a living, my site would probably have easily cost us several thousand dollars to have built for us! When we were starting out we had all the time in the world and not much of a budget, so this solution worked perfectly for us

Hugs,
~Jyoti











Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 8:16 pm














lecontefairy






 
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Spaboom is excellent to work with and easy to maintain and make changes on your website. I have been very happy with my site as are our clients.

LeContefairy

Spaboom is excellent to work with and easy to maintain and make changes on your website. I have been very happy with my site as are our clients.

LeContefairy











Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 7:06 pm














pueppi






 
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You could consider finding someone to barter with. Massage for website building/changing and etc. I am big into bartering.

The best bet would be to find a list of all website maintenance people in your area and send out a letter. Citysearch may do the trick. If not, you could try the online yellowpages (I linked to it for you - all over the US, but you can refine it to your region easily) for "website maintenance".

This is just a very rough idea of a letter, but it may give you something to build on.


Dear ,I am a licensed massage therapist here in the area and am looking for a company or individual to barter therapeutic massage sessions for website maintenance.My office offers If you would be interested, please contact me at .Sincerely,











Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 7:55 am














rtamm






 
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Figures, I find something easy to use just when I renewed my account with Brinkster (they are the site that hosts me now)....

Figures, I find something easy to use just when I renewed my account with Brinkster (they are the site that hosts me now)....











Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 7:08 am














fudja / aka Greatlakes






 
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Hi Rebecca,

I do it myself with the help of websitetonight at godaddy. They give you templates to choose from and I plug in the rest. It is easy and just about fool proof. It is nothing fancy, no flash or anything like that. Just a good easy website. I get comments from clients every now and then because of its ease to use.

I changed the format of my menu about 6 months back, and I am not 100% happy with it, but it suffices.

Hi Rebecca,

I do it myself with the help of websitetonight at godaddy. They give you templates to choose from and I plug in the rest. It is easy and just about fool proof. It is nothing fancy, no flash or anything like that. Just a good easy website. I get comments from clients every now and then because of its ease to use.

I changed the format of my menu about 6 months back, and I am not 100% happy with it, but it suffices.











Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 7:02 am














rtamm






 
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Websites-who maintains yours?
 













I had a friend of mine design and maintain my website for a while, and I LOVE my site, I couldn't do anything that creative on my own. However, he has been very flaky lately and I can't rely on him to make changes, and when I tried to make a change, I messed something up (you can see what I'm talking about on the Services page, I somehow took out the graphics there). I would like to re-build/re-design my website and am looking for an easy HTML editor and some templates. I downloaded a free trial of Dreamweaver but man, that is involved!

Anyone have any ideas? I really can't afford to pay someone to design a new site and maintain it right now and for as little as I need to make changes, this is something I could do on my own, it's just finding a program easy enough to work with yet still professional looking.

Here's my site as it is now, www.massagebyrebecca.net

I had a friend of mine design and maintain my website for a while, and I LOVE my site, I couldn't do anything that creative on my own. However, he has been very flaky lately and I can't rely on him to make changes, and when I tried to make a change, I messed something up (you can see what I'm talking about on the Services page, I somehow took out the graphics there). I would like to re-build/re-design my website and am looking for an easy HTML editor and some templates. I downloaded a free trial of Dreamweaver but man, that is involved!

Anyone have any ideas? I really can't afford to pay someone to design a new site and maintain it right now and for as little as I need to make changes, this is something I could do on my own, it's just finding a program easy enough to work with yet still professional looking.

Here's my site as it is now, http://www.massagebyrebecca.net











Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 6:54 am


















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[mad hatter]

Spaboom is excellent to work with and easy to maintain and make changes on your website. I have been very happy with my site as are our clients.

LeContefairy

 

[Janice R]

We built our own--from scratch

It has gone through several incarnations! It's a process, a journey, a trial-and-error. We're always changing, updating, proofreading, etc.

We bought a webpage-building program a few years ago and used that. It's quirky but relatively user-friendly. You don't need to know HTML code, a lot of it is drag-and-drop or inserting pictures/formatting text, that sort of thing. My husband fumbled around with it for a little while but then got the hang of it. According to one of my clients who builds websites for a living, my site would probably have easily cost us several thousand dollars to have built for us! When we were starting out we had all the time in the world and not much of a budget, so this solution worked perfectly for us

Hugs,
~Jyoti

 

[Orphen]

I created my own with iWeb through .Mac, and bought my domain through godaddy. It was very easy to set up, and cost me under $200. I just have to continue paying the hosting fees...

I am very happy that I can add anything I want, change it around whenever I want... and haven't had any problems.

 

[eir]

I created my own with Dreamweaver, but I've always picked up computer stuff easily enough. I can see where it might be overwhelming to others with less experience.

Godaddy hosts. I've never had any problems with them and their price is good. Excellent customer service.

I have a free invisible counter with StatCounter. It only tracks the last 100 hits, you have to pay if you want more. Since I check it daily, it's no problem. It's been very useful to know where my hits are coming from.

Hope that helps!

Sally
Barefoot in Cozumel