Website questions (not portfolio-related)

Ok, so spinning off part of my photography business and have created a new company. This isn't going to need to be a portfolio-based website because I'm doing more than just the photography and, in fact, it's not focusing on the photography aspect of the business. So I need to create a website for the business.

Anyway, been checking out Google Apps for the free 30 day period and thought I'd check out using the Google Sites app to create it. I picked a template which should work ok (at least for now) but it's a PITA to change it.

So I'm looking for a better solution but I don't have a fortune to spend. I don't want one of those free sites which is Flash-based (I want no part of Flash). I don't mind spending money on it, I'm just tight right now because I'm starting this business from scratch. Eventually, I plan to invest money and doing it properly but, until then, I need to get something going.

I'm a geek but not a programmer so I need something which is reasonably easy to set up, edit and maintain.

Any ideas?

Bump

Wordpress plus one of the thousands of themes that have been developed for it.

Dan Marchant wrote in post #13831577
Wordpress plus one of the thousands of themes that have been developed for it.

+1

there are TONS of free templates, and you can upgrade to custom down the road. Great for SEO too.

Hmm, pardon my ignorance but I had thought WordPress was just for blogs. I'll have to check into them for web sites.

Thanks.

for a price of a magazine subscription you could use a shared-hosting server. I'm a Canadian but my server is based in Houston, TX

My host offers cPanel which offers a few free CMS app to build website. I chose Joomla. They also have some shopping cart avail. For what it's worth, I use mine as a private family site not business.

GadgetRick wrote in post #13833588
Hmm, pardon my ignorance but I had thought WordPress was just for blogs. I'll have to check into them for web sites.

Thanks.

It is widely used for blogs, but can be used for anything really... even eCommerce

notepad.exe is free

Canajun wrote in post #13833625
for a price of a magazine subscription you could use a shared-hosting server. I'm a Canadian but my server is based in Houston, TX

My host offers cPanel which offers a few free CMS app to build website. I chose Joomla. They also have some shopping cart avail. For what it's worth, I use mine as a private family site not business.

Have to look into that. I just don't want to get bogged down with the website. I want to do what I'm getting paid to do.

chrismallet wrote in post #13834577
It is widely used for blogs, but can be used for anything really... even eCommerce

Hmm....

Numenorean wrote in post #13835595
notepad.exe is free

Thank you so much. First of all, it's not free...I'd have to buy a PC to get it.