http://www.carolynnduncan.com/2007/04/27/
wow-weeblycom-is-a-sexy-business/
Wow! Weebly.com Is a “Sexy Business”
Writing by olynnduncan on Friday, 27 of April , 2007 at 1:55 pm
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What options does a small business have to get an easy, cheap, non-blog web presence? Sans web skills? Good luck.
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May I call your attention to “Google Apps”?
http://www.google.com/a/smallbiz/
I used it to “throw up a business idea” quickly and cheaply. My expense was registering a few domain names.
(My hero is the fellow who made grazillions selling 5 biz ideas a day. He got it going and sold out. The inet model: get a spark, throw up something, hockey stick the popularity, and sell it off.)
You asked for alternatives. Google Apps is still free. But I have reservations in NOT paying the piper for an idea. Don’t think you want to be beholden to a free service? A cheap equivalent at reputable hosting service is chump change (under a hundred a year).
Just a thought.
ALSO: I looked a Weebly a while ago. I’m not sure you want to take the Weebly route, or for that matter the Google App one either.
Your time is valuable. You’ll spend a lot of it developing your “content”. Then it, and all the effort getting it right, is locked up on a free sites.
No, I have already paid tuition at that school. In my case, I developed a “good enough” site for my consulting business using a WSP’s free web site building tool. When I merged all my stuff on various WSPs to get control and save a lot of money (Some WSP prey on the novices and really stick it to them!), I paid special attention to my sites that were in some one’s proprietary format. (It was NOT HTML.) And, this one site built with their tool did have HTML that look moveable. And, it was. I moved it and everything was hunkey dory at the new site. Until I pulled the plug at the old site, and my modest effort was gone. Apparently, stuff pointed to the old WSP. Argh! Now, I don’t use the WSP tools. The WSP is paid for raw service. I build in NVU and such.
So, I’m not sure that “free” isn’t very very expensive.
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