MillieF

I need to get a website going, and have been thinking that I might use Wix? It looks to be fairly user friendly. Have any of you used it or done this, alternatively I have looked at Vista Print as I often order cards from them. Advice would be greatly appreciated.

geedee

We used iPage to get one going. It was cheap and had very easy to use tools to build a website from scratch, including many templates. In the end I bought an app called Freeway Express and did it on the computer and uploaded it. More flexibility.

I think most of the popular sites offer "build it yourself" tools now. They're very straightforward and if it's a good host they will have tech teams who will help you when needed.

Siouxie

Wix is great but be aware if you dont want your url to look like www.wix.com/millieF you will need to pay a monthly/annual fee to have your own domain name and I don't believe it includes email. It is easy to use and the interface is basically drag and drop, wysiwyg.

Don't know about Vista for website but I would presume it would be similar.

There is free software out there - Serif have an easy to use program Free Website Design Software – WebPlus Starter Edition from Serif

I have webhostinghub as my server and they do an excellent intro deal of $60 for the first year including your own domain name, it's unlimited hosting, mail, etc. They have a basic web builder included. Web Hosting Hub - Get Your Website Online in Minutes

If you need any help give me a shout.

Oink

What services are you offering?

MillieF

Siouxie and GeeDee thank you so much for your advice..

Oink, we wil be offering Full Fixed Based operator services with a 10,000 square ft hangar and fuel services, which we are having built, however we presently have a flight school, air craft ferrying and corporate aircraft management.

Aviator

Get a professional web designer, choose one who is also a graphic designer. There are plenty who can code, much less who are good with design. A bad website is worse than no website.

How much is the hanger costing or an engine overhaul? Don't skimp on your first impression or a lost customer. Building the site is the easy part, getting the graphics and making it work together takes a lot.

We spent $8k on our site and it was worth every penny. The designer used Joomla, which is open source CMS, avoid ones who use their own CMS, this ties you to them on their terms (the other $2k went on learning this). They tell you theirs is better, it is, for them.

SambaDeAmigo

We offer this service too. Our company started off by making websites for individuals. Now we make them for corporations, colleges and universities.
Depends on what you want at the end of the day. Many people settle for a Wordpress site these days as it suits their needs and is easy to set up and maintain.

Zoe Bell

Cool business, do BE members get a discount? .
I'd love to run this kind of business.

Siouxie

Webhosting hub has joomla and just about every other kind of web authoring software available free.

Aviator

Getting the software for free is the easy part, it is open source. It does not help with the design element. You can either do graphic design or you cannot. Which is quite evident by the number of crappy websites out there.

Even Joomla can need some coding and knowing how to use it.

The web co we use because they hire graphic designers, not because they can use Joomla or code HTML.

The money we spent was good value and re recouped it very quickly.

nativenewyorker

Godaddy.com is very user friendly and cheap!

Novocastrian

Why do you ask?

<although I think I know the answer to that question>

MillieF

Most Definitely! Discounts to BE members are a given!

For the last couple of thousand years of my life my husband and I have discussed ad nauseum the 'right' plan for a small airport....we tried our best in France to no avail (my husband grew up on a couple of small airports that his parents operated in BC and he had a small flight school in the UK...and we have now decided that life is too short....if we don't do it now, well then we will always have just have discussed it.....Might we go bankrupt? Indubitably....will we enjoy getting there....undoubtedly! It might work, and perhaps not...presently I'm hopeful....

Some of you out there are far better at this than us....but.

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Novocastrian

How enigmatic!

Oink

Adobe Dreamweaver I believe is the tool to help you make a nice site.