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[dj bill]

anyone here have the skills locally (so cal) to help me with my new web site for a product im selling .will pay.

and no bust its not sheep flavored sex wax.

 

[HotRodZilla]

I would get with Calimus over on Riders. He has his stuff together. At the least, a good start. You don't have like 10 of those guys on your block in California?

How about contacting your local university/college. There are some talented people in their computer labs that can give you a great product for less money.

 

[beemerdons]

I would get with Calimus over on Riders. He has his stuff together. At the least, a good start. You don't have like 10 of those guys on your block in California?
How about contacting your local university/college. There are some talented people in their computer labs that can give you a great product for less money.

+1, Gunny; the Armadillo Fornicator makes sense, Calimus would be your guy if he has the time to take on your project.

But Bill, doesn't John "johnny80s" Max work in that field. If you don't have Juan's phone number, send me a PM Bro'!

 

[Top_Speed1]

anyone here have the skills locally (so cal) to help me with my new web site for a product im selling .will pay.
and no bust its not sheep flavored sex wax.

I have the skillset in php, html, perl and others, even flash. I own/operate several sites including Go-Karts "R" us (as a powersport related site to this one). My BG in a nutshell; I developed and published my first complete site back in 1994, made from basic html (No WYSIWYG back then!). Before that, simple "webpages" as school projects etc. (funny even thinking back to then!)

I'm not "the local guy" to you but will chime in on a few things...

No.1 thing (being a new site): Your exposure will be very limited and you will not be a 1-10 (page listing) on google (or whatever SE) for a very, very long time [iF EVER!]. Weighted keywords, metatags and page optimizations or even paying for "SEO" is now so overwhelmed/overused within the SE Industry it's not even funny (or useful unless you let's say can rip apart Google's search-bot/listing algorithm, and good luck on this one, it changes quite frequently).

So... this means you will be opted for "pay per clicks". This gets expensive especially with "click-dreamers" who will/can eat up your pay per clicks faster than ship. Now- If you have the means to get referrers to your site (i.e. TV Commercials etc) and you have a clear route for website business then great, go for it, a new site with success is highly possible. Right now (without), new sites are a dollar and a dream basically as vendors such as Go Daddy have made populated sites so vast, it's now almost impossible for new sites (groundup) to be successful without big wallets for advertising, promotion.

This brings us to... If you do not have exposure in place for your upcoming site, I would highly suggest partnering through an established site who gets indexed and has a high PR rating. Amazon, eBay and others flourish in this and your exposure is almost immediate vs. your lonely site amongst a Billion others.

Not knowing your product(s) of course, I can't define any experience I may have had or seen of course, just give a general Website (overview) in today's layman's terms. Hope my input here may help you make a couple of right decisions down the path.

I wish you great success, good luck!

-KJ

 

[dj bill]

what do you think about squarespace.com . leo laporte the tech guy(and johnny 80s) recommend.

 

[Top_Speed1]

what do you think about squarespace.com . leo laporte the tech guy(and johnny 80s) recommend.

For a quick, up and running site, this is adequate. The WYSIWUG interface is good for non-programming peeps. It does limit you to what & where you can "place" things, run scripts etc.

It still all goes back to my prior statement however. Another words, "if you build it, will they come?". Or how do you plan on customers finding your site. This is the BIG million dollar question.

What's your competition of this product? Man, so many factors but if you wish to go (start) from ground up with no html or php experience a WYSIWUG (template initiated) site like squarespace would be a good start. Me? hehe, no way of course, it would be like giving some frozen food to a Michelin Chef and saying "go-ahead, create something fabulous!". For Joe B. Average, the frozen food works fine. Here to.

 

[dj bill]

I do want a ebay store.just signed up with basic level,web site will be advertised on a few local other sites.i have no competition with this product. I will pm you some info if that's ok.