I laugh every time I see the iPage web hosting ads that read, "Build a great website in just 10 minutes."
Unless you know how to write HTML code, building a great website will take you two days and several phone calls to the company you select to host your site. And every person at the company you select that you talk to will suggest different things for you to do.
Our new Arkansas Diamond Mine Adventure website is up and not exactly running; maybe walking slowly. The friendly folks at iPage first had us sign up for iPayment so that we could sell t-shirts on our website. That required giving our personal/banking information to that organization, and the next day we had an iPayment account. That, of course, required us to open a Merchant Resource account which also needed our personal/banking information. However, the next technical-support guy I talked to at iPage said, no, we needed a PrestaShop account to sell items on our website, not iPayment.
This morning we had two charges for $19.95 to our bank account from a company with initials that stand for who knows what, and we're still not sure that anyone can place an order for anything on our website shopping page. I bet we won't get that $40 back even though we no longer need iPayment and Merchant Resource. At least we've got a great logo for everyone to see on our website, for what that's worth.
In addition, our video featuring our 8 y/o Diamond in the Rough is now posted on YouTube and linked to our website. Our hope is that people will see it, be interested and go to our website and buy a t-shirt or make a donation.
Have any of you built a great website for your company? If so, we'd love to know who you used and how you did it. And it would make us feel better to know that it took you longer than 10 minutes to build it.
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