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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: johnny_h on March 08, 2009, 12:12:18 pm

Title: did you make your own web site?
Post by: johnny_h on March 08, 2009, 12:12:18 pm: hi guys im looking to set up a web site and have no idea where to start or even what to do so any of you who have done it could you offer some advice :) thanks in advance
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Post by: Steve CM on March 08, 2009, 12:41:07 pm: i made my own website. its not finished yet as the seo still needs doing but it will completed soon
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Post by: dave0123 on March 08, 2009, 01:02:39 pm: Website looks good Steve! very smart professional.

What did you use to build that ?
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Post by: LWC on March 08, 2009, 01:09:30 pm: I made mine with microsoft live, its free...give it a go

http://www.officelive.com/free-website
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Post by: Nathanael Jones on March 08, 2009, 01:12:16 pm: I built mine. I used a template from www.templatemonster.com it makes the whole process easier & quicker!
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Post by: Oakley Windows on March 08, 2009, 01:33:33 pm: Me too

http://www.oakleywindowcleaning.co.uk
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Post by: dave.e on March 08, 2009, 02:06:13 pm: I built mine with web builder 5 and use freeola for the hosting but i am now playing with publisher and see what that turns out like.
Title: Re: did you make your own web site?
Post by: HIGH LEVEL WINDOW CLEANERS (scrimmy) on March 08, 2009, 05:17:48 pm: mine was free using synthasite www.highlevelwindowcleaners.com

multiple pages for absolute nothing, and no technical skills needed either,.

but in the end i got nat to do a proper one for me, but i found the sythasite one a good place to start... www.gacontracts.co.uk
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Post by: gerard mcmanus on March 08, 2009, 06:26:48 pm: Get a hosting site and domain, I have used http://www.dataflame.co.uk/ in the past and they are fairly affordable. If you are not wanting anything like flash etc and just a good informative corporate presence then I would tackle it myself if you look at ians the mods sites his own looks better than the one he is paying for.

You can do a decent design with front page but if you want something more design orientated you would need something like Photoshop and dream weaver, witch can produce some pretty incredible sites when you take your time with it.

Also know its not something you are going to do over a weekend and a good site should take you a couple of months, also look at online payments as a website should be an additional service to your customers in my opinion.
Title: Re: did you make your own web site?
Post by: Steve CM on March 08, 2009, 06:59:38 pm: Quote from: dave0123 on March 08, 2009, 01:02:39 pm
Website looks good Steve! very smart professional.

What did you use to build that ?

its all build from scratch. the template i made in photoshop and then put together in dreamweaver
Title: Re: did you make your own web site?
Post by: HIGH LEVEL WINDOW CLEANERS (scrimmy) on March 08, 2009, 08:45:27 pm: i have two sites made free on synthasite (see below), however i have my external keyword feed to my main site ( high level window cleaners written all over my work shirts in big letters, so i figured the custies would try that 1st www.highlevelwindowcleaners.co.uk so i linked it to my www.gacontracts.co.uk site) i also have www.highlevelwindowcleaners.com on synthasite to make sure no one else gets the chance 8)

the other synthasite one i am using just now until the ecommerce site is finished is www.wfpshop.com or www.wfpshop.co.uk

as i said earlier synthasite isint to everyones taste however its a great starting point for those who at least want a site to play about with. ;)
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Post by: Neil Williams on March 08, 2009, 11:18:35 pm: did you make your own web site?
Yes
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Post by: lukedella on March 09, 2009, 04:02:14 pm: Steve i'm pretty impressed did you have any previous web building experience before you made these sites? Do you know HTML outright as in you can just could sites via notepad also do you know any other languages like ASP . PHP .

Cheers
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Post by: Taylor & Taylor WC Services on March 09, 2009, 07:03:14 pm: Hi I'm new here but thought I'd mention I built my own too!

http://taylor-and-taylor.co.uk/

I used Moonfruit to build mine. Not free though. About £50 a year.
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Post by: Jimmy1 on March 09, 2009, 07:09:07 pm: Quote from: taylor80 on March 09, 2009, 07:03:14 pm
Hi I'm new here but thought I'd mention I built my own too!

http://taylor-and-taylor.co.uk/

I used Moonfruit to build mine. Not free though. About £50 a year.

Well done, thats a nice looking site.
Title: Re: did you make your own web site?
Post by: Steve CM on March 09, 2009, 08:08:51 pm: Quote from: lukedella on March 09, 2009, 04:02:14 pm
Steve i'm pretty impressed did you have any previous web building experience before you made these sites? Do you know HTML outright as in you can just could sites via notepad also do you know any other languages like ASP . PHP .

Cheers

unfortunatly i'm not very clued up on web coding. my biggest advantage is i have used photoshop for years at a professional level so i can create things and just use dreamweaver to put the pages together. If i had more time on my hands i would love to learn how to build sites from the ground up! maybe one day ;)
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Post by: MoemGorod on March 14, 2009, 07:09:34 am: Hi mates,

I made my own websites and some for the customers then using Joomla. Its free.

www.MoemGorod.ru
www.LongArm.ru
www.TopCleaner.ru
www.BeeClean.ru
www.pinstroy.ru
www.MoemGorod.com

Vadim
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Post by: Nathanael Jones on March 14, 2009, 09:54:52 am: LOL,.. longarm.ru a very memorable website address! I'm surprised there aren't more WFP cleaners over here using the phrase in their company name!
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Post by: MoemGorod on March 15, 2009, 03:46:33 pm: Nathanael hi.

Your site is very VERY attractive. Which template did you use from templatemonster?

regards,

Vadim
Title: Re: did you make your own web site?
Post by: Nathanael Jones on March 15, 2009, 07:20:48 pm: This is the one I used for my own site:
http://www.templatemonster.com/website-templates/13166.html

Their templates are dead easy to works with, much better than most other template suppliers.
Title: Re: did you make your own web site?
Post by: supernova77 on March 15, 2009, 08:03:27 pm: I built my own website:

www.southerncleaningservices.co.uk

I am going to be updating it very soon though.

Andy