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Alan Benton

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Hi guys and girls, I'm just thinking of putting myself on the Web... Any good tips... Any better providers of support... Some do they're own templates etc?

Pat Harrison

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If you are looking for a free web site there are several to choose from. I am on wordpress who offer quite a few free templates https://landscapeartblog.wordpress.com/ It is really geared towards blogging but you can build nice artists web sites too https://landscapeartuk.wordpress.com/. They are easy to handle which I am sure is very important. I also manage our art society´s web site on WIX. It is also free and reasonably easy to handle once you get the hang of it http://committeedevonart.wix.com/devon-art-society

Derek Snowdon

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Interesting as I am thinking of redesigning mine. I use a free one from years back SiteKreator and it has served well but I think they should be updated more frequently and very old stuff deleted. Wordpress has been suggested to me and I toying with the idea, when I get round to it.

Alan Owen

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all help you along and do it for you. I was with just host for a few years, it is so simple. the cost was a couple of pounds for the domain name and it was cheap for twelve months I think it was fifty quid then ,but not expensive ,it is easy to do. make a file on your desktop and pop in it what you want like painting pics with a few words sale of paintings , add your email address.. just up load it and keep adding to you named file on your desk top .and up loading when you want ..so simple even I can do it ,its like falling out of bed with a domain name ..think of something related to art ..if you use your own name .someone else may have that .and whats the first thing you do in google search ..for art ..yes its watercolour.. so mine was www.watercolourfreedom.com ....I don't use it so the domain name is lost to me. it is now open for anyone .
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Robert Jones, Napa

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I wish I'd gone the Alan Owen route - but I didn't..... Instead, I got someone to build a website for me, which he did, and very well. But he never taught me how to use it, and over time he moved on, leaving me with the task of managing the thing - it's been difficult because I'm fairly technophobic: someone I showed the website to said "I'd never have done it like that!", which was as useful as brewing up in a chocolate teapot. However, the domain provider is 3X, and they have been extremely helpful in guiding a very short-sighted old fool through the most obvious problems. The tools used to build the site were in a package by Serif - theoretically easy to use, but there are easier ones out there (and I wish I had one of them). If you learn how to do it yourself from scratch, I'm sure that's the better way: the snag with taking on something that someone else has built is that it's not always easy to see how he's done it - I've got a bit neurotic about mine and keep putting off dealing with it; but if I'd learned how to get it right from the start, I'd be a happier little web publisher today.....
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Alan Green

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I use Net Objects Fusion Essentials for my (music) website and that of the Swing band I perform with. It's easy to use and has loads of templates. Then you just need someone to host your site.

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