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Posted By: The Tim <tim@thetimtimes.com> In Response To: Re: Daily Dose of Tim - Free Advice - Web Dev (DaveB)
Thursday, 17 February 2005, at 3:03 p.m.
I just wanted to add something here. Of course I do my own web dev and have had a blogger account (with several blogs) since January 2001 !! No big deal really. Of course I just play around with this webstuff for fun and amusement, as well as trying to add a little spice to the content of political discourse (MawMaw will be glad to affirm that. lol) So I haven't updated thetimtimes.com MAIN page for a couple years, but I have blogged a bit here and there (All the links on the left hand side of my site ARE BLOGS).
My point in bringing this to the group's attention is that IF I WERE TRYING TO SELL SOMETHING ON MY SITE and had any reasonable expectation that I would make a dollar (why else waste the time and effort unless YOU BELIEVE it's worth it?) I WOULD PAY SOMEONE TO REDO MY SITE!! It wouldn't be that hard to put together a really nice INTERACTIVE SALES site for under $2500. There are a couple reasons for this. 1. You do the site yourself and it'll be crap because the first time you do ANYTHING it's usually crap. You have to gain experience before you can really shine and you can't do that IN REAL TIME THE FIRST TIME AND at the same time juggle the BUSINESS aspects (aside from all the webjunk). Just can't do it. 2. I'd be hosting my own blog instead of relying on the blogger servers just because you never know when they're gonna go bust or up the ante and charge you money. You get much more customization/control over your site by installing your own blogger software (I've read that Movable Type is one of several top notch STAND ALONE products.)
Because you know what BLOGGING REALLY IS?
It's content management software. A major example of a content management issue here at FIB is the archives that don't, and as far as I can remember (years now) haven't. I'd have removed the archive function years ago if I couldn't have figured it out by now just so I wouldn't have to constantly apologize for it! Content management software (once installed and configured - think techie) lets NONTECHIES manage web content without being web programmers. That's the long and short of it. I had mentioned a program (picassa) in a post a couple weeks ago. When I first heard of picassa it was packaged with a free program (you had to pay for the picassa program back then) called 'HELLO'. Probably still out there. I have it on my pc at work and home. It lets you post photos to your blog without being a web guru. So all this blogger stuff really does is allow folks who would otherwise not know how to post things, to do so. The archiving, etc. is SWEET as well because you don't have to do anything to make it work.
Enjoy.
> I've been kfarkling around trying to build a website for several months. I
> took a class at a local school which was worthless. I then logged on to
> w3schcools.com and virtuallyignorant.com which was a great help. My best
> resource is my son who earns a living on the internet, he has 8 websites
> and 150 or so pages. I keep asking for advice and he gives me plenty but
> I'm afraid I'm starting to be a pest. Anyhoo, I have a partial site up (
> the links aren't up yet and I'm having trouble figuring out my
> autoresponder) but at least it's progress. I'm 67 yrs old and my goal is
> to get it done before I start drooling and have to wear diapers.
> DaveB
> If one really wants to design a Web site on a shoestring, go for the
Sensibility Without The Static
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