"Aah, Jack is good - you can email him on jackdoesroofsandmachines5432_new at gmail dot co dot UK - no hang on - or was it hotmail?" I'm shocked at the number of small businesses who use long complicated email addresses rather than snappy domains. They don't tend to have websites either - just long email addresses from throwaway email providers.īuilding a website used to be difficult. And why wasn't that image loading? Then adding a contact form.Ĭreate a page, save it as HTML, then copy and paste chunks to create another page.
Wordpress has taken a lot of the headaches away from this, but you need proper hosting for it. Again, years ago, when you signed up for an ISP, you got some webspace thrown in too. Not much, but enough to throw up some pages of animated GIFs and marquee text. This software goes back to those 'static HTML' days. If you create a website using this and want someone else to maintain it or amend it, then they'll need the software too. They can't just download the HTML file, tweak it and upload it. Well, they can, but no one wants to edit HTML manually - it's a nightmare. The software is easy to use - from pre-prepared themes, create pages, add text, images, position nicely and upload. The issue comes when you want to create a mobile site, or instead of a large desktop site, tweak it for an iPad. You have to do a lot of this fiddly positioning manually. There are far better 'auto responsive' themes out there which do this for you. There are loads of extras to use, but each one uses 'credits'. A lot of sites use FontAwesome, as they use a 'these are our services' or 'these features make us great - service, customer focus, blah blah' with icons. FontAwesome is usually free - just connect to the glyphs, add some code, and you're away. Oh, want to add Google Maps? 45 credit please.
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