deano87
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Bare with me on this one.
My girlfriends dad has started making furniture such as mirrors and tables out of old scaffold boards and such in his spare time in a bid to start raising a bit of cash. However, in terms of starting up a website, the budget is £0, and I mean £0.
So what is the best free website builder, which is both easy to use and more importantly, search engine friendly?
This is his current site which he initially set up - http://www.planxxj.co.uk . It uses a Webeden free account. However, the way Webeden works, it isn't search engine friendly. The text is only selectable and search engine friendly because I used the HTML widget function across the site. How Webeden works is a pile of shit imho.
I have found http://www.webs.com/ - one of their example websites is indexed by Google - plus you don't have to use their domain.
Is there any other free website hosting and builders that are better than Webeden? Unfortunately due to £0, no offers of "I can create one for £100" will work.
Let me know what you think guys 
[Edited on 21-04-2010 by deano87]
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Rickavo
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Google sites it alright and easy to use but doesnt appear in search engines (including google :S) and is a .co.uk one aswell
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Dom
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If you've got access to a mac then iWeb is worth a look, can get some decent results but obviously you need to supply hosting of sorts (can get hosting for £15 a year from tsohosts.co.uk).
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ed
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Use webs and pay the subscription or get a designer to make something up. There's nothing more off-putting to a customer than a free website covered in adverts or of poor quality.
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Sam
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quote:
Originally posted by ed
Use webs and pay the subscription or get a designer to make something up. There's nothing more off-putting to a customer than a free website covered in adverts or of poor quality.
Getting a website made really is a case of 'you need to spend money to make money' - if you're a cheapskate people won't take you seriously, but if people see you have a website that looks the part then they are more likely to spend money with you.
I had a call from some woman the other day that asked me how much I'd sort out a website for her, she was  at the price and said 'I might get my daughter to design it for me, she's in university you know'... 
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nathy_87
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 In university doing what? Criminology. Ain't half some dumb fcuks out there. If you are wanting it doen then expect to pay a price. (aimed towards Sam).
[Edited on 22-04-2010 by 5dr corsa-3dr_polo]
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Sam
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Who knows, maybe being in university doing any subject automatically makes you an experienced web designer?
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Sam
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Anyway, back to the original question (sorry for taking this thread off-topic a little!), try:
http://www.moonfruit.com/
http://wordpress.com/
(I know with wordpress.com you can point a domain name to it so you can create a free WP based site at http://whatever.com rather than having http://whatever.wordpress.com as your website URL).
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deano87
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Cheers for the info guys.
I know he needs someone professional to do it but the money just isn't there.
Turns out for customer URL/domain on Webs you need to pay. Webeden seems ok as you even get Google Analytics, but the trouble is it converts to a complete flash site.
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Sam
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I still think paying £7 or so for a domain name (come on he can't be THAT broke FFS) and forwarding the domain to a wordpress.com site will be much better, plus he can have stats and choose any templates he wants.
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deano87
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quote:
Originally posted by Sam
I still think paying £7 or so for a domain name (come on he can't be THAT broke FFS) and forwarding the domain to a wordpress.com site will be much better, plus he can have stats and choose any templates he wants.
Believe me, quite skint. Hardly any cash left over after paying the bills.
But I'll bare the wordpress think in mind. He bought the planxxj.co.uk domain ages ago (which I incidentally hate) so could just divert to wordpress.
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Sam
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The hosting on wordpress.com is free by the way, and I believe you can set up Google Mail through your WordPress account so that you can use Google Mail with the domain name (also free).
I still think he/you/your girlfriend/whoever could scrape together the £7-odd for a new domain name though - even for someone that has hardly any money that is not impossible...
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