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MirandaDetailin said:
I made our own site using a program called Web Page Maker. Very easy drag and drop program, you can add a lot of extras to. Having a background in web design helps also.
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Exterior Detailing
Interior Shampooing of all Carpets, Mats & Upholstery. Steaming of Dashboard, Console & Door Panels.
Inlcudes Dressing to Shine & Protect.


Interior Detailing
Exterior Wash, Clay-Bar Treament, Hand or Machine Polishing & Apply Paste Wax (2 Application)
Includes Rims, Wheel Wells & Tires Cleaned and Dressed
 
This is something I'm looking into. I'm almost out of business cards and would love to have a website up and running before I get more printed. It would save me from explaining prices and packages as much and give me a place to show off my work. It seems like godaddy would be my best bet for a simple cheap website.
 
hey Mrclean81, do have any experience using web page builders? I have some experience in web Design, but I used a simple cheap program called Web Page Maker, it works great for guys like us. drag and drop pictures, make text, even add PayPal. I edit my site every couple of days to keep it fresh, you can use Godaddy to host it and they even have a way of editing your site and publishing it anytime you feel like it.
 
MirandaDetailin said:
hey Mrclean81, do have any experience using web page builders? I have some experience in web Design, but I used a simple cheap program called Web Page Maker, it works great for guys like us. drag and drop pictures, make text, even add PayPal. I edit my site every couple of days to keep it fresh, you can use Godaddy to host it and they even have a way of editing your site and publishing it anytime you feel like it.
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I had a site I started on with freewebs.com and I hated everything about it. It just seemed cheap and didn't represent my business very well. Thanks for the suggestions. I'll definatly look into it.
 
Check out my website by clicking the links in the signature.

Its based on the wordpress platform ( Blogging site ) but has no blog. What the wordpress platform does is give me the ability to easily go in and change, delete or add what i want as easily as using any word processor like Microsoft Works or Word.

Private message me if you still need help with this.
 
My cousin is a website designer out of Austin, TX. She did mine for me for around $300 and it has already paid off in means of increased communications from people browsing my site and calling for a detail. Check out mine: DJ's Details

We just got it up so I'm sure there will be a few kinks to work out. Pictures don't enlarge yet; we're working on that.

Just a suggestion, stay away from Flash. Many consumers are accessing the web from their phones nowadays and Flash isn't readily available on all smart phones. Good luck with the site
 
DJsDetails said:
My cousin is a website designer out of Austin, TX. She did mine for me for around $300 and it has already paid off in means of increased communications from people browsing my site and calling for a detail. Check out mine: DJ's Details

We just got it up so I'm sure there will be a few kinks to work out. Pictures don't enlarge yet; we're working on that.

Just a suggestion, stay away from Flash. Many consumers are accessing the web from their phones nowadays and Flash isn't readily available on all smart phones. Good luck with the site
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Nice clean web site. It looks like each page is an entire image rather than HTML. That is probably why you can use non-standard fonts.

I like the regular text and extra space between lines...makes for easy reading.
 
The best tip I can give you is whoever designs your website, make sure they have some understanding of implementing SEO into the design.

SEO is search engine optimization, and the better the SEO is the easier Google and the other search engines will find, read, and rank your site.

If you need some help or guidance, send me a PM.

Good Luck
 
Mike.Phillips@Autogeek said:
Wordpress is a blogging site and while I don't think a blogging site lends itself as well to creating a commercial website it is fairly easy to set up and start adding content and you can do it with little to know knowledge of how to create a website. I've used this one and it's free...

https://www.blogger.com/start


I haven't used the free page creator that you can use if you host your website with GoDaddy but it probably works well enough to create a simple website. I do register all my names using GoDaddy as it's just as good as anywhere and to date I've never had any problems.

Creating a website from scratch on the other hand means you need to know at least a little bit about using an ftp client, and at a minimum, a little bit about html coding. Even if you download a free template for a webpage, you still have to edit it and add all your own custom content.

:)
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I happen to use a WordPress & it's the first that I have ever set up as my business site. Simple, clean and in my opinion ....... not bad at all.

In the sig .......
 
Check my signature links. My website is based on the wordpress platform. It looks nothing like the standard wordpress blog and I chose not incorporate a blog on there. The reason to use this setup is I can go into the backend and change, delete or add stuff easily, just like using a word processor. The backend is the same as the standard wordpress administration.

Wordpress websites are easily crawled by the Google spiders and that helps in rankings on the search engines.

If you don't have a website yet, take a look into it. Stay away from FLASH websites. Google can't read them easily and iphone doesn't support it either.

If anybody has any questions, feel free to PM me.

Good Luck
 
After struggling for years with home built sites and never feeling like they were worthy of what our business had to offer we chose to have a site built for our shop. It is a full dynamic wordpress site that we can update with pictures posts and add or remove pages if we want.

Really the best money we have ever spent!

If the link works on the bottom check it out.
 
Sorry Im just out in Phoenix Arizona, and am on the West Valley, Which has about 5 cities within... I should be a little more specific, Thank You I will get that changed asap
 
Ron Harris said:
After struggling for years with home built sites and never feeling like they were worthy of what our business had to offer we chose to have a site built for our shop. It is a full dynamic wordpress site that we can update with pictures posts and add or remove pages if we want.

Really the best money we have ever spent!

If the link works on the bottom check it out.
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Checked it out and it looks great!

Wordpress sites like yours look like websites and I personally like the look.

The thin centered columm blog looking site is the "look" that I don't thing works well for a business site but tweaking WP the way you have looks very professional.

Nice job. :bigups
 
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