There are times when you need to pay a fair amount of money for a web site. Maybe you own a large company, maybe you need highly customized design or programming or maybe you’re looking for an ecommerce website.
But there are times when you shouldn’t. Let’s face it, sometimes you just can’t spend the money. Maybe you’re a struggling small business, maybe it’s just a hobby web site or maybe it’s just not feasible for your budget.
That being the case, it’s still important to make sure that your site is easy to read, that it has good content and that search engines can find it. Enter WordPress, Artisteer and Sweet Thursday Web Development’s One-Day Websites.
WordPress is opensource. It’s free. Most hosting companies have “Fantastico” or something similar in their control panel that allows for one-click install. There are also lots of free WordPress Themes out there and many that you can pay for.
Artisteer is a collaborative program that generates web site designs in the form of suggestions and then allows the user to change any aspect of the design he or she wants. Once completed the design can be exported as a WordPress Theme.
This reduces design time and programming time considerably and gives you a customized, good-looking, search friendly site at a fraction of the cost of higher end sites without sacrificing quality.
Along the way you and I will collaborate on your design, I’ll teach you how to use WordPress ( which boasts a very intuitive administrative area ), set WordPress up with some important plugins, set up your emails, and make any programming and CSS tweaks necessary that Artisteer missed.
We’ll do all this in one day and you’ll have high quality, great-looking website. Sweet!
