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Hi, I have been toying with the idea of going into business for myself for along time. One of my hurdles was getting a website together. I thought I would either have to devote two years of my life studying html or I would have to save up to afford a web designer to design a site for me. I decided to try and make a website and see what happens. For those of you who are in the same boat as I was, making a site for your self is very easy and alot of fun. I actually enjoyed the whole process of making a site to actually getting a domain name. Its pretty exciting to see your site come to life. Anyways my whole topic was that anyone who has thought about getting themselves a website and are short on cash, should try making it themselves.You might surprise yourself! My total cost was $12.00 and yes I am not a Dan Antonelli and it probally does looks like a $12 dollar website too If anyone is interested I can explain the whole process I took from beginning to end if they are interested.
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Charles, that is GREAT! I just built my own site this year for about $8.99...but yours is sooo nice! Love...Jill
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I would definitely be interested in your commentary. I'm in the process of putting a site together (on a shoestring budget)so any tips would be appreciated.....
Currently, I'm using a free authoring program called N-vu that seems to have fairly good capabilities with a WYSIWYG format, but I don't mind purchasing Front Page if that's much better. Thanks for your help.
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GREAT job! So many sites today are chock full of too much stuff. That is clean, elegant and flat out fantastic. Especially the "A"...
Seriously, the first thing I thought was, wow, my father would have LOVED that A and then I clicked on it. Thank you so much. It's gorgeous.
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Yes, me thinks Al would have approved, too.
CBdO, you are one of the finest lettering artists I know. Outstanding work. Just outstanding.
I understand your love of brush lettering. I truly do. Nice website. Clean and uncluttered.
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Well I guess for 12 bucks you're bound to get some misspelled words . Thanks for catching that Janette. And thank you guys for such nice comments, you guys really made my day. Sonny, here is the process I took to make this. I came across this program on the Internet called webstudio 4. I installed it to see what it was all about. My intentions were to only make a single page with no links, just my contact info. Well after playing around with it, I started having some fun with it. You can preview your site online which I thought was pretty cool. While I was in the process of making this I got a domain from Yahoo for 1.99 for the first year and $10 after that.That takes about a day or so to propagate, so that would probably be the first thing I would recommend doing before you start making your site. Once you got your domain and website finished you need to have a company host it for you. The software that I used has a company that they offer to host and that was who I used ($10 a month) It was an extremely easy process and I would have done this alot sooner if I would have know just how easy this was. Hope that kinda helps. Have a good one, -Charles
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Yes...it's nice to meet the name & brain behind the font, isn't it, Bobbie!
Nice work, Charles!
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Thanks again 'heads for the nice comments. Sandy, that is wonderful. I was curious how slow it would load on different bandwidths. Thanks for letting me know.
-Charles
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Thank you Joe and Lotti! Joe, I would greatly appreciate that as I do not have any clients at the moment. I guess we all have to start somewhere.
Charles
BTW Sonny I tried to call you, not sure if you got my message or not.
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Love the artwork! very crisp and beautifully done; I bet it was a lot of work to get that site together, as I've never had one, just a portfolio; anyway, yours is beautiful, yes. anyway you spell it.
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I struggled with my website for months and didn't have a clue but one day I just said I was going to do it and by midnight that day, I had it done. Cost me less than $100. and I know mine doesn't even come close to the one Charles created. I am going to look up the info he gave and perhaps start over. Checking out your site Charles and I love your font page. Impressive stuff!!! Greg Fairbrother www.maritimelogos.com
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