12 hours later
I have posted before about Sitekreator - one of a number of online tools that allow non-techies to build basic websites. The sites are inevitably template driven - design from scratch involves time and knowledge. A great advantage of the Sitekreator backend is that it supports a lot of functionality out of the box - forms, galleries, forums and emailing lists to name but 4.
The businesses I work with are small and the sites are more than adequate for their needs. The single most important thing is that each of the entrepreneurs concerned leaves the training course after 5 or 6 nights with the ability to maintain and develop their site for themselves.
Have a look at a couple of them that are live. Each built in 12 hours by small business entrepreneurs with no HTML, FTP or CSS skill sets :-)
www.countryhousevenue.com
www.bwoodcandles.com
www.nolanspharmacy.com
keith
Very impressed. There appears to be something odd going on with the green banner background on the Pottlerath House site - it appears to be a different height on each page - but perhaps that was due to pilot error. Nevertheless it Sitekreator looks like an idea solution for many small businesses.
When I first set up on my own in 2000 I built a few similar sites for local community councils and small companies (B&Bs etc) but none would have been anything fancier than the sites you've listed. Thank goodness Sitekreator wasn't around back then! ;-)
Posted by: James Corbett | February 23, 2007 at 10:19
They look great Keith - nice one!
Posted by: annette | February 23, 2007 at 12:17
Thanks James and Annette. Yea - first time I had noticed that James but also showing on my browser. Could either be the template itself - or possibly the rejig of the backend that Sitekreator are putting in place today that will last approx 18 hours.
They have rebuilt the service from scratch and are implementing it to allow for new feature development.
keith
Posted by: keith bohanna | February 23, 2007 at 14:39