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Web Pages for Your Farm
Lyndon Irwin
Bois D’Arc, Mo
pages.prodigy.net/lirwin
Who may benefit from their
own Farm Web Site?
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Purebred Livestock
Anyone offering unique agricultural
products
Anyone needing to supplement other
advertising
Who will design your web
site?
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Hire a professional
Learn to do your own
Disadvantages of doing your
own site
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Requires ability
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design
maintenance
loading
Takes time
Advantages of doing your own
site
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Probably lower cost
Much easier to make changes and keep
your site up to date
It’s more fun than hiring it done
Designing your pages
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Is it necessary to know HTML?
Consider using one of the page design
programs
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Front Page
Claris Home Page etc.
Designing your pages
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Look at other web sites for ideas
What colors, fonts, sizes work?
Keep it tasteful
Photos / Scanning
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Use either a scanner or digital camera
Scanning your own good photos is less
expensive
Digital cameras are faster
Don’t “borrow” scans
Scans
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Be cautious with size of scans
Large scans are slow to load.
Will your potential customers be willing
to wait for slow scans?
If you want to show a large scan,
consider a thumbnail
Plan for multiple pages
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Link pages
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forward
back
Future pages
Where will you put your web
pages?
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Does your Internet server provide free
space for home pages?
Free web page hosts
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such as GeoCities or FortuneCity etc.
Free means banners??
Get your own domain?
Using web pages to
supplement other advertising
Supplementing Other Internet
Marketing
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If you have questions, email us. If you want to
know more about our farm or our fleeces, visit
our Farm Fleece Page .
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Thanks for looking! Have fun! Click here if you
want to see other fleeces that we have on eBay
Web Pages
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Be prepared to answer a variety of
requests for information
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“I’m doing a term paper about wool…..”
Use a Web Page to answer your
Customers’ most common questions
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“How do I fit a lamb?”
Happy New Year
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The End
www.lyndonirwin.com