I have built websites but if you would like to do it yourself there is no better place than jigsy They have templates to choose from and all it cost is $120 for the year plus your domain name which you could get for around $10. They have a lot of extras like forms you can build etc. It is very user friendly and the great thing is you can change the website anytime as long as you have internet acess. You don't have to have any software it is all there.
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You could also go get yourself one of those books on HTML and php, a copy of gimp filezilla and bluefish, and learn to build the site yourself for about 15 dollars and get your hosting for 8 bucks.
Might take your average person 4 weekends of actually doing it.
I had the design of my main site done then built 9 more myself with a book and using code examples from my main site.
I could probably do as good of a job as the main site now, although I think the people that did it did a very good job.
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I hope all of my competition thinks like you.
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Well that just crushes my confidence entirely, I thought my site was halfway decent.
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Your site looks fine, the problem is you're giving out advice that doesn't apply to most people. That's like me learning how do carpentry work instead of just hiring someone. Sometimes the smartest thing may be to just pony up some money to a designer like TR Web Wizard or Agent Methods.
If you major in computer science and want to go for it... By all means, but the average agent thinks logging into their AOL account is a doozy.
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Well, TR did my site initially, then I did a ton of modification, and she did a really great job. I knew oldschool HTML back before there were css and php to deal with, my knowledge level was building sites with tables from back like 1998.
I do have one thing I would suggest all agents request if they outsource their site building. Ask the builder to do it in PHP, and include all the headers and footers and required html as includes. They'll know what you're talking about.
That way, if you want to change the words on a page, all you have to do is not delete the <?php include ?> tags and you can do most of it with notepad or anything and you won't break the site.
After that the only html you'd have to learn would be <h1> <h2><h3> <p> <a href> and <strong> <em> and how to close your tags. Like a 1 page dummy sheet and figuring out how to use ftp and you're set.
Or have them build the whole site in wordpress for you so you can use the wordpress editor.
There is just not really a good reason to pay 500+ for a site that you then have to pay again for if you need it modified at all.
I do have one thing I would suggest all agents request if they outsource their site building. Ask the builder to do it in PHP, and include all the headers and footers and required html as includes. They'll know what you're talking about.
That way, if you want to change the words on a page, all you have to do is not delete the <?php include ?> tags and you can do most of it with notepad or anything and you won't break the site.
After that the only html you'd have to learn would be <h1> <h2><h3> <p> <a href> and <strong> <em> and how to close your tags. Like a 1 page dummy sheet and figuring out how to use ftp and you're set.
Or have them build the whole site in wordpress for you so you can use the wordpress editor.
There is just not really a good reason to pay 500+ for a site that you then have to pay again for if you need it modified at all.
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dang....its almost like ground hog day....
ok chumps ......whats the deal with the post and delete thing you got going on.....
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ok chumps ......whats the deal with the post and delete thing you got going on.....
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