website on a budget?

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

thanks mdvaden, shall bear it in mind

 

tony the tree, may i suggest you change the homepage image for one with the guys visor down! just an observation.

[County4x4]

@Tonytree,

 

I'm not picking fault with you mate, but if I'd spent £350 on what is to all intents and purposes a basic website, I wouldn't have expected to see spelling mistakes on the first page, or any other page for that matter! I don't know if I just have an eye for them but it jumped out at me as soon as I opened the page. I've not been through the whole site but there are obvious typos on several other pages as well.

 

I also think £350 is steep for what you have there - no problems with the look of it but there are no fancy shopping carts or secure socket layers and all that techie stuff.

 

As far as domain names and hosting go - I pay less than £3 for a .co.uk and can get hosting for under £3 a month.

 

I know several people "in the business" of selling websites to businesses, and they all seem to think it's a licence to print money, as much of it is no harder than composing an email to someone.

 

Cheers,

 

Andy

[Tonythetree]

thanks mdvaden, shall bear it in mind

 

tony the tree, may i suggest you change the homepage image for one with the guys visor down! just an observation.

 

Hi You missed an even more glaring mistake on the photo see if you can work it out somthing to do with the saw!

 

Tony

[Steve Bullman]

at the end of the day, you get what you pay for, and regardless of how the site looks, if its not designed and coded to work well with google, you may as well not bother at all....anyone can knock something up that visually looks ok

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Hi You missed an even more glaring mistake on the photo see if you can work it out somthing to do with the saw!

 

Tony

 

LMAO, was this site a rush job!

 

Im just teasing, but if it was mine i would be on the case BIGTIME!

[Stephen Blair]

Hi You missed an even more glaring mistake on the photo see if you can work it out somthing to do with the saw!

 

Tony

 

you are on the ground:001_smile:

[Marc]

you are on the ground:001_smile:

 

Mere technicality that, he has his harness on and the tree is still standing, for all we know out of shot he could be stood on a log technical making it an aerial cut.

[skyhuck]

He's one handing the saw.

[Frimsley]

Hello have a look at our site Yew Tree Forestry-Tree Surgeons

 

Do you really want Google ads for potential competitors on your front page?

 

Cost of a website - how long's a piece of string? Sometimes you get what you pay for. Sometimes you pay through the nose for complete rubbish. If you really want a site to work for you, don't skimp on it. Don't try and do it yourself, or get the lad next door to do it. A designer friend of mine recently paraphrased a famous quote about the punk era, saying "dreamweaver has given everybody the opportunity to build their own website. And most of them shouldn't have"

 

And don't forget that getting the site up is only the first part of the journey. Getting traffic to it is much harder.

 

FWIW, I don't think £350 is at all expensive for a basic brochure site.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I have had a site before, it was great but it was so long ago and prices will have changed a lot. i used to pay 30 quid a month just to have it re submitted to all the engines regular etc, it was in the top ten sites for photgraphy in the uk so i considered it worthwhile. like steve says you get what you pay for, but i am broke so budget is my only option for this little project.

 

The input is appreciated