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I have some friends that would like me to build a Website for there company. They are willing to pay me for it. I am good with computers and Cad/Cam programming... but never tried building a website. Is there a good place to start learning how to build it? How much should I charge for doing this? The site would be for a sales company that sells cutting tools for Machine Shops.
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Dreamweaver is great for this, but expensive if you aren't doing it professionally. DW allows you to use a visual interface to design the site and it generates the correct code for you. Also, you could build it off a CMS (content management system) if it is something they want to do constant update to. Wordpress is by far the easiest I've dealt with. You can get a WP site up and running in 20 minutes. It's all customization after that.
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I create and look after several web sites and find Wysiwyg web builder the easiest and quickest site producer and when flash is needed I use Koolmoves, they work well together and their combined cost is a tiny fraction of Dreamweaver.
The places to look are: www.wysiwygwebbuilder.com and www.koolmoves.com
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Get yourself a good background in HTML and CSS first. Buy a couple of books on those subjects and read them and do the tutorials.
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Do your friends (and yourself) a favor and tell them it's outside your experience, and that if they're serious they should hire a pro. What they're doing is honestly quite stupid. They want to sell something, but are unwilling to buy anything? Maybe we should all start making our own cutting tools -- it's easy, after all! (Ridiculous statement intended.)
Your IT experience does not qualify you to design/code a website.
That takes a special mix of communication and tech skills that you don't have.
A good site doesn't even have to be expensive. I've done them for as little as $200.Want my help? Ask here! (not via PM!)
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what are you going to do when your friends hate your amateur site you've made them?
you'd be better off having them find a CMS template they like then impliment it...if possible -
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Not really. Most of my clients come to me with horror stories about "the local guy" or "the local company". The best independent designers all operate purely online, and have no need to advertise in the phone book (how 20th century!) or pay exorbitant rates to set up shop in a crappy strip mall location. You only need to advertise if you can't get word-of-mouth references or have a terrible online presence for yourself (warning sign right there!)
Have laptop, will travel. (Mostly to Panera Bread, for the bottomless Pepsi refills, soups and muffins.)
What about yourself?
I think I will pass on making it myself.
I have some friendsLast edited by lordsmurf; 17th Jan 2011 at 07:21.
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