France website design - free advice!
Because of my computer dabblings I am often asked how to make/design a website. Sometimes people even try and cross my palm with silver in the hope I will do it for them. I usually stick the silver in my pocket and then explain that it’s not really my thing…
When I start explaining how the whole process works, it takes about five seconds for their eyes to start glazing over. And when I see the same person months later and ask how the website is going the answer is always the same - ‘I haven’t had a chance to do it yet’.
Which is a bit like me and tax returns. I wait until the last possible minute, and then find it really isn’t so hard after all. (Strictly speaking I am a qualified accountant so shouldn’t have terrible problems, but that’s another story.) But it needn’t be this way! I promise, setting up a website for your gite or business, or just to tell your friends what an exciting life you lead, really isn’t so hard. But where to start?
Because it’s blowing a gale outside, I have at last finished off a little project I started a while ago. This project aims to help people get a website online in the easiest, cheapest, way possible.
There are quicker and easier options than the one I describe. The easiest of all is probably to get a free website from blogger.com or wordpress.com. These are very popular, but can be quite restrictive in what changes you can make, and in future potential. Still, a good option if you want to dip a nervous toe in the internet waters.
But then things start to get a little more complicated (but not much), which is where panic starts and my project comes in. What I have tried to do is explain in ‘little steps’ how to get your own website, live on the internet, that looks good and you will be proud of. What’s more, all this great wisdom is free. So now you have no excuse not to get on with it.
The steps to follow can be found at France website design (although the same process applies even if you don’t have the good fortune to live in France). Give it a go yourself before you hand oodles of cash over to a designer, and let me know how it goes.
