Your further diy web site thoughts?

[GROWLER]

Thanks BIG B.

My thieving accountant paid someone to get his web site onto the first page of Google apparently....over a hundred quid a month.
Mere loose change in his ashtray though I suppose.

[Snoopy]

Thanks BIG B.

My thieving accountant paid someone to get his web site onto the first page of Google apparently....over a hundred quid a month.
Mere loose change in his ashtray though I suppose.

Everything has a price ~ whether it is worth paying is the question. No new business should throw money at unproven advertising. Articles written and submitted as a "PRESS RELEASE" to local newspapers will get you plenty of free publicity ~ well free in the sense that you will have to write it and pay for the stamp/fax (Faxed adds more excitement to it in the "Newsroom"). All editors are desperate to fill their pages every week and will be only too happy to have a local new business/success story.  Be sure not to tell them too much or they will edit it out and make sure referrals to your website are highly visible. This will increase your hit rate and thus your rating with the search engines.

Make sure all the Councils, both Town and County in your area have a link to your website on the Tourism sections of their sites. They will be only too happy to do this free of charge ~ you only have to ask. Remember that having a website is not the be all and end all. Less that 10% of people planning a day out will ever think to look at the internet ~ after all less than 50% of households have access to the internet anyway ~ despite what the "Geeks Trade" claim. Where do I get my figures? ~ well I asked the population of this village, when we set up our site. I trust my own research far more than those whose business it is to sell the internet.

[GROWLER]

Thanks BIG B.

Less that 10% of people planning a day out will ever think to look at the internet ~ after all less than 50% of households have access to the internet anyway ~

Both of those statistics suprised me tbh.

Internet is the first place I look for just about anything now, and i thought that was a trend followed by the majority rather than the minority tbh.

I would say that less than 10% of people I know, HAVEN'T got a 'puter AND connected to the internet

[Snoopy]

Then you don't live in a village of 2400 people in North Wales. 

The village website, which covers everything about this village including where to eat/drink, what to visit, ALL business telephone numbers and addresses (grouped by category), Info about schools, churches, attractions, events etc gets fewer than 1000 hits a year and over 50% of those do not last more than 20 seconds. Remember that this is an historic village, in a known holiday destination, through which thousands of vehicles bearing holiday makers/weekenders etc  drive every week. We are two miles from miles of sandy beaches, within 25 minutes of Snowdonia and 30 Minutes from Anglesey. There is a large Night Club and leisure centre here plus four pubs and of course our famous waterfalls. The village is mentioned in the Domesday Book and the castle was captured from the English by the Welsh. The Bible was translated into Welsh in this village. You would honestly think that perhaps a few more people might have a look at us.

[GROWLER]

Then you don't live in a village of 2400 people in North Wales. 

The village website, which covers everything about this village including where to eat/drink, what to visit, ALL business telephone numbers and addresses (grouped by category), Info about schools, churches, attractions, events etc gets fewer than 1000 hits a year and over 50% of those do not last more than 20 seconds. Remember that this is an historic village, in a known holiday destination, through which thousands of vehicles bearing holiday makers/weekenders etc  drive every week. We are two miles from miles of sandy beaches, within 25 minutes of Snowdonia and 30 Minutes from Anglesey. There is a large Night Club and leisure centre here plus four pubs and of course our famous waterfalls. The village is mentioned in the Domesday Book and the castle was captured from the English by the Welsh. The Bible was translated into Welsh in this village. You would honestly think that perhaps a few more people might have a look at us.

OK, OK, you've convinced me.
 A sight seeing day trip for the GROWLER family is now on the agenda before the little darlings go back to school.
Didn't know you had waterfalls out there.

[Snoopy]

Only 20 pence to get in, free car park (next to the church) two good pubs. Red Lion opposite if you just want a pint or two or 50 yards away the New Inn which is a bit "Foody" and there is a Tearooms/ice cream shop at the entrance to the falls. Depends on how much rain in the days before your visit but it can be very spectacular.
You can take the steps to the top if you wish but once up there it is not fenced and it is a 60 foot drop so do keep hold of Mrs Growler 



Ice Creams/Tea etc at the entrance to the Falls.

[GROWLER]

You can take the steps to the top if you wish but once up there it is not fenced and it is a 60 foot drop so do keep hold of Mrs Growler 

I have a plan.


NO!

[Snoopy]

I won't tell ~ Promise.

[GROWLER]

Just added a map to me site, but the address looks very long and untidy on the site.
How do you change it to a simple 'click here' for map?

[Barman]

Just added a map to me site, but the address looks very long and untidy on the site.
How do you change it to a simple 'click here' for map?

Add a 'Hyperlink' with the map address in it...

[GROWLER]

Just added a map to me site, but the address looks very long and untidy on the site.
How do you change it to a simple 'click here' for map?

Add a 'Hyperlink' with the map address in it...

Yea....right.
Right clicked, checked all the symbols on the edit page, and can't find the facility to do that.
I'm obviously doing something incorrectly, or should I say, I'm NOT doing summat right.
What?

[Nick]

Try this?

http://www.geocities.com/adilbookz/Utilities/tinyurlcode.html

[GROWLER]

Try this?

http://www.geocities.com/adilbookz/Utilities/tinyurlcode.html

Did it and now it doesn't werk.

[Snoopy]

Try this?

http://www.geocities.com/adilbookz/Utilities/tinyurlcode.html

Did it and now it doesn't werk.

That is because you haven't put the tiny url link in properly. It needs http:// which you have got THEN www. which you have omitted.
I think if you go back into it and make the link read http://www.tinyurl.com and then add the magic numbers supplied by Tiny you will get what you want.
I have just used the address your link shows and inserted the www. bit and it works perfectly.

[Nick]

What he said