Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 10:20:34 -0400
From: Andrew <puppetvision-AT-gmail.com>
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] www.hobeyford.com


For anyone who is struggling with building their own site, I would suggest
trying Wordpress which can be downloaded for free from
http://www.wordpress.org and can be hosted on your own domain ( like
www.yourpuppets.com). Wordpress is blogging software that is very easy to
run a professional looking website on.

Once set up it's very easy to use - if you can an email to Puptcrit, you can
use Wordpress - and there are thousands of free templates available as well
as some really beautiful "premium" ones that can be bought for as little as
$20-75. There are also hundreds of plugins to help you easily add features
like a calendar of your shows, photo galleries of puppets, videos etc.

Better yet, if you buy a domain and hosting through companies like GoDaddy
or Netfirms you can get a site for only a few dollars a month and they will
install Wordpress for you.

I've done web development in the retail and tourism industry here and there
over the years and I've often wondered if there was a market for offering
basic web site packages that look professional and are easy to use
specifically to puppeteers and puppetry companies.

- Andrew

Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 19:16:47 -0400
> From: Mathieu Ren? <creaturiste-AT-primus.ca>
> Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] www.hobeyford.com
> To: <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org>
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> Hey people, I was fidgeting with site designs for a while, had many
> versions
> over the years but since I don't do programming (not even html), I was
> taking forever to update my stuff.
>
> Problem solved now, I decided to simplify to the maximum: since my stuff
> is
> all visual, a large scale slideshow was the way to go.
>
> I made a slideshow, formatting each page a bit like I would have liked my
> website to look, and inserting some pages with descriptions of services
> and
> contact info.
> It's hosted freely on Flickr, and the link I provide leads people directly
> to their wonderful slideshow interface.
> To update a page, you just have to keep the original layered files (images
> and text) on disk (or as an archive somewhere accessible by you say, your
> gmail account), change them at will, and send the flattened version as a
> jpeg, on the flickr account.
>
> I feel so free, with all the time I will save from now on!
>
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