and If i put your words in a picture... this is what you get in the end..
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Entrepreneurship & Small Business
Mar 28th, 2015 5:38 pm
and If i put your words in a picture... this is what you get in the end..
Apr 10th, 2015 3:12 am
anyone here with personal experience with Hawkhost or Stablehost or 000webhost?flexgrip wrote: ↑If you are a small business and you are looking for a web presence, a custom solution is a WASTE OF MONEY.
Wordpress + Template = DONE. Spending money on a custom service will likely give you the same visual results + make it more difficult to manage when compared to a Wordpress site.
Let me guess...the people pushing custom sites on this thread PMed you regarding there services.
As for hosts, it all depends on how critical your site needs to be up. For most small businesses a cheap $<10 / month hosting solution is fine. Stablehost and Hawkhost are popular shared hosing providers on Webhostingtalk.
Apr 14th, 2015 1:33 pm
Apr 14th, 2015 2:13 pm
Huh?? Why?! In fact, you will see A TON of web designers buying templates off themeforest and then just installing them and doing a bit of customization. It's super easy to install the wordpress on your site. It is Super easy to install a template and It takes maybe a 4-5 hours for most folks to get a hang of a template and do everything on your own, without having to pay anyone every time you need to make a change. For small businesses this is the best wayredalot wrote: ↑and If i put your words in a picture... this is what you get in the end..
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Apr 18th, 2015 11:22 am
Apr 18th, 2015 12:07 pm
Look through the theme and plugins selection on themeforest. Keep in mind it's best you find a theme that supports calendars within the theme itself rather than taking your chances on retrofitting a 3rd party plugin into a theme not authored by the same guy. Neither wordpress nor authors guarantee any compatibility between their themes and 3rd party plugins. This is particularly true when it comes to javascript heavy plugins.flyeaglesfly wrote: ↑so a bit of an update... i registered with bluehost and made my website myself.. i downloaded a free theme just to test the waters.. put in my text and titles but its so crap lol. like i installed woocommerce but it takes up so many tabs... so i have a question about plugins... i want my home page of my website to have a calendar similar to this --> http://www.loyalistcollege.com/ is there a plugin that i need to install or does it come with the theme??? thx
Apr 18th, 2015 12:20 pm
Using a canned theme is perfectly fine if you're ok with adjusting your branding and marketing collateral to fit into someone else's generic vision and template. It's also fine if you're ok to share the same template with hundreds or thousands of other buyers around the world. While in some instances it maybe 'super easy' to install there is no generic template that will 100% fit your needs. The problems arise when you come to make changes, need support and most folks using themes are completely illiterate when it comes to even the most basic customizations. Most themes do not offer easily accessible customizations beyond very basic CSS controls which implies your business owner will now be spending ours trying to figure out how to change the colour of his side bar or widget (this thread is a perfect demo of this Sorry, OP) rather than going out to drum up business. It's an endless spiral I've seen countless times. People looking to save a few bucks pouring months into a template only to abandon it and seek help. If you tally up the time investment it's usually in the thousands if not tens of thousands.dazz wrote: ↑Huh?? Why?! In fact, you will see A TON of web designers buying templates off themeforest and then just installing them and doing a bit of customization. It's super easy to install the wordpress on your site. It is Super easy to install a template and It takes maybe a 4-5 hours for most folks to get a hang of a template and do everything on your own, without having to pay anyone every time you need to make a change. For small businesses this is the best way
Apr 18th, 2015 3:49 pm
Apr 18th, 2015 7:13 pm
pm sent thanksAndrewA914 wrote: ↑Send me pm with your email address and I'll help you out a bit. I can spare a few hours of my time to save you a lot of time and hassle and get your business pointed in the right direction.
Apr 18th, 2015 7:15 pm
u know u r probably right... but again to kinda i think itll cause me a bit of problems later on... but this wont be such a complicated business... i think i will be able to manage off a expensive themeichpen wrote: ↑Using a canned theme is perfectly fine if you're ok with adjusting your branding and marketing collateral to fit into someone else's generic vision and template. It's also fine if you're ok to share the same template with hundreds or thousands of other buyers around the world. While in some instances it maybe 'super easy' to install there is no generic template that will 100% fit your needs. The problems arise when you come to make changes, need support and most folks using themes are completely illiterate when it comes to even the most basic customizations. Most themes do not offer easily accessible customizations beyond very basic CSS controls which implies your business owner will now be spending ours trying to figure out how to change the colour of his side bar or widget (this thread is a perfect demo of this Sorry, OP) rather than going out to drum up business. It's an endless spiral I've seen countless times. People looking to save a few bucks pouring months into a template only to abandon it and seek help. If you tally up the time investment it's usually in the thousands if not tens of thousands.
Apr 18th, 2015 7:20 pm
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