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This may not help as you are a Dinosaur :) But i have a website i resigned myself on Vistaprint, very easy to set up and edit (I'm the sort of person that if i can work something out after 2 minutes i give up, so it must be easy!) cost me £9 per month.
Logo, i had a general idea i wanted, something simple, do you have any younger family thats good on computers? if not, there are websites you can pay to have a logo designed.
Advertise on all the free sites, Yell.com, Thomson local, free index are a few, just google advertisement and sign up to the free ones.
Hopefully others will be along with more in-depth knowledge soon!
He will design and host your website, email and offer loads of advice on all sorts of social media and tell you how to operate it.
He offers excellent technical support and is very reasonable.
I couldn't agree more. Jason did everything on my little webpage, including setting up the email, all with easy instructions, at a very reasonable cost.
It's actually costing less for full hosting and support than I used to pay for my DIY 1and1 website, but looks so much better.
If you start with a professional setup, it'll be easy to go back whenever you need to make changes or expand in the future.
Hi Harry,
You need someone who can not only build you a website and create a logo, but also prepare you a media plan – nothing too expansive, but certainly one that will enable you to make the best use of free social media and other forms of cheap promotion.
I don't know what the rules are for promoting yourself, but as well as being a director of Lush Garden Design I also run my own design and marketing company that specialises in helping small businesses – keefomatic.com. If you would like a chat then please send me a message.
Many thanks,
Keith
I do my own website, I am self taught from watching YouTube videos ect.
Unless you have the free time to learn I would recommend paying someone to do it for you as to do it well it takes a considerable amount of time and effort to do it properly.
It's not just a matter of knocking up a website, it needs to be found. It has been a bit of a learning curve for me to get my head round SEO (Making sure I can be found on google ect).
However you go about getting a website, either building it yourself or having someone do it for you it's important to blog - blogging is just a way to get relevant information onto your website.
It's easy enough to do, just put pictures of some of the work you have done, a bit about it the project and the location (town/city) if you do it on a regular basis say once or twice per month your site will slowly climb up the google rankings.
The best platform to learn to build websites on is probably wordpress, if you can use programmes such as word you should be able to master it.
I can't recommend these guys enough for web hosting
www.krystal.co.uk
They have one clicking installs for wordpress and will make it a breeze for you to get up and running in no time at all.
I use shape5 templates on my own website @ http://www.premierlawnsni.co.uk
Very sensible Harry! Many THINK they can, but their websites are confusing, poorly laid out and full of spelling and grammatical errors - a big turn off!
I agree with the advice to use a specialist in that field - but would add that with time you will get used to the way social media and interaction thereafter works,my dad who is 85 embraces his iPad , iPhone - has at least 2 computers and a laptop, regularly does things online,there is a lot of swearing involved, but he does get by - he even found out how to FaceTime, which rather caught me on the hop with a mouthful of beef !!