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Title: getting a website help...
Post by: Martin ccs on August 10, 2010, 12:03:16 pm
looking to get a web site, dont really wanna spend over £100 per yr tho.

looking for about 4 pages. home, services ..... with pics ...

no good at all at the designing thing .... im guessing for the money i wanna spend im not gonna get it designed and done for me ...

love the look of steve cm's site - clear magic ...

anyone help...
Title: Re: getting a website help...
Post by: Window Washers on August 10, 2010, 12:07:27 pm
http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/index.php?topic=106496.0

last post on this:

http://www.freelancer.com/

you may be lucky and get it at that price, worth a try.
Title: Re: getting a website help...
Post by: darren clarke on August 10, 2010, 12:21:02 pm
this 100 a year is this to include the design and hosting of it?
Title: Re: getting a website help...
Post by: Martin ccs on August 10, 2010, 12:23:34 pm
i hope so but im not great with tech so maybe im going to low??

i keep getting bothered by a company called amcs internet - £99 +vat per yr.

Title: Re: getting a website help...
Post by: Window Washers on August 10, 2010, 12:25:37 pm
i hope so but im not great with tech so maybe im going to low??

i keep getting bothered by a company called amcs internet - £99 +vat per yr.


what ever you do make sure the domain name (yournameyouwant.co.uk) is registered to you and not whoever does it for you.
Title: Re: getting a website help...
Post by: darren clarke on August 10, 2010, 12:26:48 pm
buy the web name first  from 123.co.uk
what do u get for 99 + vat?

Title: Re: getting a website help...
Post by: Martin ccs on August 10, 2010, 12:30:15 pm
i was told they would design it for me and they have done thousands of wc sites.

they use a pro picture company for images at no extra cost to me.

i would own the name in .com or co.uk

4 pages,domain name,email,hosting

their site is amcsinterent.co.uk
Title: Re: getting a website help...
Post by: Martin ccs on August 10, 2010, 12:35:07 pm
ive just found a voucher offer on a google search aswell.

so if i took out the £99 +vat bronze package - with the voucher i would get the following 12 months hosting for free
Title: Re: getting a website help...
Post by: R W C™ on August 10, 2010, 12:53:04 pm
Id go here mate

http://www.blackberry-webdesign.co.uk/price-guide.html

the ones on this link page are others they have done

http://www.carpetcleaners-cardiff.com/south-wales/carpet-cleaners-network.html

If you go to the carpet section on here a few guys have used them, if you do ring him his name is mark tell him Chris at reflection window cleaning recommended you....
Title: Re: getting a website help...
Post by: R W C™ on August 10, 2010, 12:54:07 pm
I believe after the 1st year its £3 a month...
Title: Re: getting a website help...
Post by: Martin ccs on August 10, 2010, 01:00:54 pm
thanks rwc

just had a look on the site. £150 +vat for that is a good price it seems.
Title: Re: getting a website help...
Post by: R W C™ on August 10, 2010, 01:02:00 pm
The same guy does all my fliers, business cards etc....
Title: Re: getting a website help...
Post by: Martin ccs on August 10, 2010, 01:04:09 pm
The same guy does all my fliers, business cards etc....

when i get in touch ill say that you put him my way.
Title: Re: getting a website help...
Post by: Steve CM on August 10, 2010, 03:27:38 pm
love the look of steve cm's site - clear magic ...

thanks. But i had a look about and you really do have to spend a bit to get a good result. I think mine was fanatstic for the money considering what some want to charge and the standard of design you get. If you want a website that costs a hundred quid then it will look like a website that cost 100 quid...sorry but its the truth! :)
Title: Re: getting a website help...
Post by: Gav Camm lammy 283 on August 10, 2010, 05:02:34 pm
love the look of steve cm's site - clear magic ...

thanks. But i had a look about and you really do have to spend a bit to get a good result. I think mine was fanatstic for the money considering what some want to charge and the standard of design you get. If you want a website that costs a hundred quid then it will look like a website that cost 100 quid...sorry but its the truth! :)
martin iv told you time n again to speak to nat jones m8 or failing that
try ian at window washers both windies both can or will know exactly what you require
end of lol ;D
Title: Re: getting a website help...
Post by: Steve CM on August 10, 2010, 05:06:19 pm
love the look of steve cm's site - clear magic ...

thanks. But i had a look about and you really do have to spend a bit to get a good result. I think mine was fanatstic for the money considering what some want to charge and the standard of design you get. If you want a website that costs a hundred quid then it will look like a website that cost 100 quid...sorry but its the truth! :)
martin iv told you time n again to speak to nat jones m8 or failing that
try ian at window washers both windies both can or will know exactly what you require
end of lol ;D

well thats not strictly true as both are window cleaners and not web designers
Title: Re: getting a website help...
Post by: Gav Camm lammy 283 on August 10, 2010, 09:35:37 pm
love the look of steve cm's site - clear magic ...

thanks. But i had a look about and you really do have to spend a bit to get a good result. I think mine was fanatstic for the money considering what some want to charge and the standard of design you get. If you want a website that costs a hundred quid then it will look like a website that cost 100 quid...sorry but its the truth! :)
martin iv told you time n again to speak to nat jones m8 or failing that
try ian at window washers both windies both can or will know exactly what you require
end of lol ;D

well thats not strictly true as both are window cleaners and not web designers
i think you will find they r both profficent web designers
my friend thats both ov them
Title: Re: getting a website help...
Post by: Steve CM on August 10, 2010, 09:46:31 pm
a web designer create sites from the ground up. I think one uses dreamweaver the other uses templates...or am i wrong? If so i wouldn't call them web designers. Maybe keen Amauters.

Its a bit like someone buying a camera and calling themselves a photographer
Title: Re: getting a website help...
Post by: LWC on August 10, 2010, 09:51:03 pm
Me and my friend have started dabling in this, hes gone into learning html, css and java script etc. Ive always used dreamweaver, i thought he was just wasting his time, but you cant make a website like you can with code.

As steve said, you need ground up.
Title: Re: getting a website help...
Post by: Nathanael Jones on August 10, 2010, 10:57:30 pm
a web designer create sites from the ground up. I think one uses dreamweaver the other uses templates...or am i wrong? If so i wouldn't call them web designers. Maybe keen Amauters.

Its a bit like someone buying a camera and calling themselves a photographer

Dreamweaver is a standard web design tool,.. probably the best in the industry. Its not a cheat,.. just a tool.

I use templates mostly because its cheaper, and us window cleaners are tight! I do also build from scratch, but due to the extra cost its rare that I get asked to.

Thanks to all who recommended me,.. but at the moment I'm booked up solidly for 6 weeks minimum. :)
Title: Re: getting a website help...
Post by: Steve CM on August 10, 2010, 11:07:15 pm
a web designer create sites from the ground up. I think one uses dreamweaver the other uses templates...or am i wrong? If so i wouldn't call them web designers. Maybe keen Amauters.

Its a bit like someone buying a camera and calling themselves a photographer

Dreamweaver is a standard web design tool,.. probably the best in the industry. Its not a cheat,.. just a tool.

I use templates mostly because its cheaper, and us window cleaners are tight! I do also build from scratch, but due to the extra cost its rare that I get asked to.

Thanks to all who recommended me,.. but at the moment I'm booked up solidly for 6 weeks minimum. :)

I never said it was a cheat. but designers who use it would normally just write the code as opposed to using the app. To create a template of your own doesn't take long if you know how to use PS. so cost shouldn't be the issue
Title: Re: getting a website help...
Post by: Nathanael Jones on August 11, 2010, 10:27:25 am
Dreamweaver lets you write the code direct with a live preview of your progress,.. one of the reasons I like it.

The coding part of making a new template doesn't take long at all,.. its the graphic design side of things that I personally find time consuming.
Title: Re: getting a website help...
Post by: Steve CM on August 11, 2010, 10:48:45 am
Dreamweaver lets you write the code direct with a live preview of your progress,.. one of the reasons I like it.

The coding part of making a new template doesn't take long at all,.. its the graphic design side of things that I personally find time consuming.

Seriously the graphic design part is the simplist. It would take a matter of a hour or so to come up with a decent web template.

Do you write code then nat? could you write a website from scratch on note pad and put it straight into dreamweaver and have a fully functioning site?
Title: Re: getting a website help...
Post by: Nathanael Jones on August 11, 2010, 12:53:20 pm

Seriously the graphic design part is the simplist. It would take a matter of a hour or so to come up with a decent web template.

Do you write code then nat? could you write a website from scratch on note pad and put it straight into dreamweaver and have a fully functioning site?

Graphic design is not my strong point!!

I would find it tough going coding a site from scratch though,.. the WYSIWYG interfaces of the last 10 years have made me lazy!
Title: Re: getting a website help...
Post by: Steve CM on August 11, 2010, 01:29:57 pm
Graphic design is not my strong point!!

I don't need to add anything else after this. If you can't create a template then your a window cleaner trying to be a designer ;)

Not putting you down, just saying it as i see it
Title: Re: getting a website help...
Post by: Window Washers on August 11, 2010, 01:42:07 pm
a web designer create sites from the ground up. I think one uses dreamweaver the other uses templates...or am i wrong? If so i wouldn't call them web designers. Maybe keen Amauters.

Its a bit like someone buying a camera and calling themselves a photographer
I am not getting dragged into this one, I do use dreamweaver as do many of the web companies in the uk it is a tool to do a job as is photoshop and many others there is a little more to designing then just what you see, but I really cant be assed going into it, .

Love your new site by the way  :-*
 
Title: Re: getting a website help...
Post by: Steve CM on August 11, 2010, 01:46:34 pm
About time you got yours done ain't it? :-*
Title: Re: getting a website help...
Post by: Window Washers on August 11, 2010, 01:50:02 pm
About time you got yours done ain't it? :-*
One day lol
Title: Re: getting a website help...
Post by: Steve CM on August 11, 2010, 01:51:26 pm
I know a good designer if you want his number?  :P ;)
Title: Re: getting a website help...
Post by: LWC on August 12, 2010, 07:13:41 am
a web designer create sites from the ground up. I think one uses dreamweaver the other uses templates...or am i wrong? If so i wouldn't call them web designers. Maybe keen Amauters.

Its a bit like someone buying a camera and calling themselves a photographer
I am not getting dragged into this one, I do use dreamweaver as do many of the web companies in the uk it is a tool to do a job as is photoshop and many others there is a little more to designing then just what you see, but I really cant be assed going into it, .

Love your new site by the way  :-*
 

Comparing photoshop to dreamweaver is a little wrong in my opinion. As Nat said dreamweaver and other interfaces have become very easy to use and made people lazy lol.

Photoshop is a strong and hard program to use, i could give someone dreamweaver and after an hour they probably could of made a basic layout, its just like doing a miscorsoft word document. Give someone photoshop and they wouldnt know where to start, ive been using it for years and its hard, now i dont know everything on there but i can always acheive what im looking for on it, but thats taken a long time...like coding a website  ;D
Title: Re: getting a website help...
Post by: leights on August 12, 2010, 07:43:00 am
i built this one myself mate

www.goldoakwindowcleaning.co.uk