Re: web site to promote book?

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GWL: I realize I'm old-fashioned with my Website, www.thewildgardener.com, but I put it together using Windows 98 and a book on HTML code (HTML for the World Wide Web by Elizabeth Castro). The for hosting I pay $75.00 a year for a non-profit site to one of our local providers, MAIN (Mountain Area Information Network). This has worked for, now, four years without incident. And I am in a boondock city (Asheville), in the most rural part of the Southeast. Perhaps site wanters should do a local search for non-profit providers; there must be a few out there. Merry Christmas! As to the new year, we're now on hold! Peter
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "bbmackey" <bbmackey@prodigy.net>
To: "Garden Writers -- GWL -- The Garden Writers Forum" <gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 1:25 PM
Subject: Re: [GWL] web site to promote book?


> Well, here's one do-it-yourself website builder, me.
> 
> I have used Hostway as my website host for five or six years. My plan is 
> $210 a year for a huge amount of space. In the beginning I used Hostway's 
> free site-building wizard. This was fine for two years. Then Hostway decided 
> that their wizard tool was outdated, so they took it down and provided a new 
> one. The trouble was, there was no way to convert the old site and get it 
> into new website building wizard. I had to start all over.
> 
> I did this once and then found that my old page names were floating in 
> cyberspace in Google and other places, and people were going to empty pages 
> because these links were broken.
> 
> But I kept going and all was well until last spring, when the same thing 
> started all over and the site-making wizard was replaced again. They offered 
> one that had no way to keep the page names the same (morons!).
> 
> I complained and asked for tech help and told them they were making my blood 
> pressure spike. Why couldn't I just keep using the old wizard without new 
> bells and whistles? No way (probably security flaws but they did not say). 
> They suggested that I buy a website-making program and ftp the site to them. 
> It seemed unfair but I could see that this would give me independence from 
> their ever-changing wizard.
> 
> After looking into it I ended up buying Adobe CreativeSuite 2 (CS2) in June. 
> It includes the full versions of AdobePhotoshop, AdobeGoLive (for websites), 
> AdobeAcrobat, InDesign, and more. I need most of the programs in this 
> package.
> 
> After spending five days in July locked in my office with the new software 
> plus a copy of CS2 FOR DUMMIES, a training disk, and some other manuals, I 
> emerged with a rebuilt website that I could control. (I will ignore CS3 for 
> at least a year or two.)
> 
> Adobe's InDesign program is not that easy or obvious to use, but it works 
> very well. Without the FOR DUMMIES book I was getting nowhere with it.
> 
> I have not used other website creation programs but I hear that the 
> interface is easier with some of them.
> 
> I have not invested that much more time in learning the finer points in 
> GoLive but my website works well enough and  I can make additions and 
> updates in only a few minutes.
> 
> Take a look:  www.mackeybooks.com
> 
> For fun I even made a new website, www.mackeysolar.com which links to my 
> Amazon "aStore" selling solar-powered garden fountains and other 
> solar-powered goodies. This one is being hosted from www.1and1.com and costs 
> only three dollars a month.
> 
> Rob, you could use a "wizard" for now from the website host of your choice 
> and be ready to buy and learn a website making program eventually, to 
> protect you from broken links in the future. You'll find that your knowledge 
> of PhotoShop will help a lot.
> 
> 
> Happy holidays, everyone!
> 
> Betty Mackey
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <Robcardillo@aol.com>
> To: <gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 10:52 AM
> Subject: [GWL] web site to promote book?
> 
> 
> > Anyone here using a DIY web design service to promote their  books?
> >
> > Adam Levine and I have just finished A Guide to the Great Gardens of the
> > Philadelphia Region and want to create a small companion website to post
> > updates, list book signings and lectures, etc.
> >
> > One web designer quoted me $2400(!!)  However, there are some online  web
> > site developers (Hometead and Yahoo Sitebuilder are two) that offer easy 
> > setups
> > with templates, domain names, hosting, etc. for a monthly fee of $10 to 
> > $20.
> > Anyone have any experiences with these or other vendors?
> >
> > Thanks and Happy Holidays to All,
> >
> > rob cardillo
> >
> 
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