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Websites what do you use?

Hello all you creatively wonderful folks.

I was wondering for those of you with your own sites how did you get it set up. As much as I am crafty I am completely lost when it comes to website building.

I am currently hosting www.felthings.co.uk through tumblr which is free but not and ideal platform.

I thought an idea to ask to see what your experience is. There are some site builders that I have looked at that look easier to use but all there templates seem a little too formal business for my liking. The extent of my computer designs skills is copy/paste

Any help would be very much greatly received.

Tags: building, hosting, website

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Permalink Reply by Lynn Smith on February 21, 2012 at 15:51

I was using Vista print who are good if you want a basic website with little that needs to be customised. I am currently using Moonfruit - their websites are much more customisable? and costs half as much as Vista print.

Permalink Reply by Alison Anderson on February 21, 2012 at 16:07

Hi Stroma,

I attended a Build your own (Mr Site) Website course with Business Gateway and at that time (Nov 2010) you received the Mr Site Takeaway package free. I'm not sure if this is still the case. The package instructs you how to set up and you get the first year's webspace free. Every year thereafter is ~£40. You can also buy the package online if you can't find a BG course giving it away free. I find it reasonably okay, but I haven't done anything really special with it. I should really make some more time to improve it. If you want to see what it looks like my website address is www.yowe.co.uk

If you want to see what else can be achieved try typing Mr Site websites into a search engine. 

Permalink Reply by Valerie Anderson on March 12, 2012 at 7:16

Hi I use Create which also has several different packages. The package that I am on, no longer applies but you can have a basic, static site quite reasonably (great if you want to re direct to Etsy or Folksy) or a slightly dearer one with a shopping cart. I found it easy to use and there is a great support forum

Permalink Reply by Pheona Wright on March 16, 2012 at 13:15

Hi,

I use Weebly.com.

Its a bit fiddly to find a design that suits photographs on your main page,but has plenty of areas you can fiddle with to suit your purposes such as slideshows and a Google map.I found the comments and blog really helpful.The only thing im a bit miffed with is that you can only post your stuff to Twitter and not Facebook.

You can write you own HTML code if youre that way inclined,but i was in ahurry to just get something up and runnign as quick as poss.

Its a free site so i suppose i cant complain.

Hope this helps

Phe x

Permalink Reply by Jennifer Carr on March 16, 2012 at 13:41

Hi

I use Mr site as well (www.jennifercarronline.co.uk) I find it good as I want something thats quick and easy to use and that you can alter and update frequently.  I've gone for the middle package (can't remember what it's called) but I think that the Pro package has a lot more features such as stock control etc  at the moment when people buy from the site I get a paypal payment which is the only notification I get, I then have to manually remove the item so that nobody else can try to buy it (if that makes sense?) apart from that it's super easy to use (I'm sure I could do a lot more with it but there's not enough hours in the day at the moment!)x

Permalink Reply by Stroma Allison Sutton on March 16, 2012 at 18:24

Thank you all for your feedback. I am currently playing about with the trial of create. Very fun.

Permalink Reply by Julie Hanlon Cole on March 17, 2012 at 18:02

Hi Allison,

I used create.net to build mine. I've found their templates fairly easy to use, which considering I have absolutely no experience at all  is no mean feat! It costs me £9.99 a month to run and they offer a months free trial so you that you can play around with it before you need to sign up to anything. Have a look at my site and see if it's the sort of thing you're after - no offence will be taken if it's not!!

Hope that's helped a little.

Julie

www.angelcakedesigns.co.uk

Permalink Reply by Julie Hanlon Cole on March 17, 2012 at 18:03

Hi Allison,

Please ignore my last message - I wrote it before I read your other replies - sorry!

Julie x

Stroma Allison Sutton said:

Thank you all for your feedback. I am currently playing about with the trial of create. Very fun.

Permalink Reply by Stroma Allison Sutton on March 17, 2012 at 23:19

:D Not to worry I like nice getting more feed back from a create user.

Julie Hanlon Cole said:

Hi Allison,

Please ignore my last message - I wrote it before I read your other replies - sorry!

Julie x

Stroma Allison Sutton said:

Thank you all for your feedback. I am currently playing about with the trial of create. Very fun.

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