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Building a Basic Website Fayetteville Free Library January 4, 2011 Agenda Planning your website • blog vs website • cost • purpose • audience • content • email • logo/images Choosing a site host • free o Weebly • low cost o Fat Cow o Go Daddy o Yahoo! o joining forces • domain name? o necessary? • packages o Vista Print Blog vs. Website Blog • free o Blogger o Wordpress • update as needed • no stagnet pages • no set domain name o ex. library demo blog Website • can be free or low cost • can incorporate a blog • can have a domain name of your choosing o cost for domain o cost for hosting o consider working together Planning your website...Cost • cost o is it worth the price? o do you have the skills? o drag and drop options Weebly some services offer drag and drop templates are nice but constrain content Planning your website...Purpose • purpose o why do you want a website? o what do you want it to do for you? • audience o who are you wanting to reach with site? • content o get it ready o know what each page will be used for • email o does your site come with an address? will you use an existing one? • logo/images o copyright issues Free Sites Example: Weebly easy to sign up you choose name, but free site has weebly extention can use a domain name you purchased free site: http://librarydemosite.weebly.com/ also will help purchase a domain name Free & Low Cost Sites Weebly...continued We make it easy for you. No setup whatsoever 50 email addresses Visitors are forwarded to your new domain Blogging Weebly Site Creator Hosting Full ownership and DNS control 1 Year $39.95 2 Years $33.95/year (15% discount) 5 Years $29.95/year (25% discount) 10 Years $24.99/year (37% discount) (Compare to $394.63 at GoDaddy) Other options Fat Cow Go Daddy! Yahoo! 1to1.com • Depends on how much work you want to do. • How much control over the design to you want? • Do you want to have Pay Pal? Wordpress.org The best of both blogging & websites Can be installed from most web companies (Fat Cow, Go Daddy, Blue Host) Easy to use Has stagnant pages WordPress is web software you can use to create a beautiful website or blog. We like to say that WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time. Helpful Links Basic Web Design Tutorial Accessible Web Design HTML Tips Web Graphics for small businesses SCORE Starting a Small Business FUTURE COMPUTER CLASSES... FFL Event Calendar