Siewierski Inc, LTD Blog

Thursday, June 15, 2006 by http://mountainsportsclub.blogspot.com/

The past few weeks have been spent building the basic web sites for www.siewierski.com , www.mountainsportsclub.com related blogs, a My Space page and preparing for the launch of Brave New Kids using the Yahoo store solution. Mixed with this has been working with Volutions e-commerce solution for www.sunandski.com. I find it amazing how far these tools have come to enable non programming people to build sites quickly, that work and convey the basic tasks needed for an online presence.

This change in the marketplace enables small and medium businesses who do not have an IT department to begin to take advantage of the web and e-business solutions to extend ther brand and commerce opportunity. They all are relatively easy to use. Granted I did need to buy Front Page for Dummies to help me on that side as well as several hours with the technical support team at Go Daddy. My grade for the Go Daddy support team is an A. They were patient and helpful. My basic understanding of fie stuctures and HTML helped get through this easier. Their starter package with up to 5 pages free and hosting for simply registering my url's with them was very easy to use. They have several options that are so cost effective and easy to use no business should be withtout a basic web presence.

I decided to go to Front Page for www.MountainSportsClub.com as there will significant content and the basic Go Daddy options do not work. The thought process was to get to know how to use Front Page and begin coding and optimizing my pages as well. Given this is a Microsoft product and free, only made the choice easier. Setting up in the shared hosting environment took half a day to work out kinks, but we are ready to roll. Look for registrations forms and database set-ups to appear in the coming weeks.

More to come on Volusion and Yahoo store Solutions. Bottom line it is sooo easy and cost effective if you are willing to invest the time. I rememeber how daunting it was 10 years ago to get effective sites built and working. We did not even know about site optiization either and how important this would be.

Please post your comments and experiences. What are other e-business, publishing tools out there that others are using and peased with?