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Steve Knight · Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 5:23 pm Post subject: Who did your website?

Hello all;

I'm new to this board, but not to doing voice-overs, just wondering if many of you do your own websites or did you hire some one..I'm doing a website (and name) change, and happened across this british company called moonfruit..
has anyone had any dealings with them?...I gotta say their stuff looks pretty good for do-it-yourself...

cyclometh · Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 6:44 pm Post subject:

Not familiar with moonfruit, but I did my own site. I can't say enough for WordPress and some customizations; you can do amazing things with it.
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scottnilsen · Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 7:43 pm Post subject:

The VO-BB's own Lou Zucaro did mine, and I get comments for it being nice and clean and for its simplicity.
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Scott Pollak · Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 8:11 pm Post subject:

Scott: agreed. I like your site quite a lot. My wife and I used to be professional web designers in the late '90's/early 2000's. My wife recently re-did mine using Wix.

I would not suggest anyone doing their own site unless they're a trained graphic artist. You need to know about correct color combinations, fonts and font sizes, optimizing photos, SEO, etc.
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JBarrett · Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 8:56 pm Post subject:

I did everything on my site except for the logo design. It could still use some work, but I'm mostly happy with it.
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Steve Knight · Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 5:04 am Post subject:

Here's the one I've been working on..

http://steveknight.moonfruit.com/

Deirdre · Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 1:28 pm Post subject:

Here is a link to some of the websites I've made.
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Philip Banks · Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 2:25 pm Post subject:

Moonfruit is fine but you really do need to get someone to design YOUR website (see above linky) as opposed to use a design to get a website for you.

Matto · Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 2:35 pm Post subject:

I agree with Corey - WordPress is pretty versatile, plus you have stacks of templates to use as a starting block for designs.

Having a clear idea of the style I wanted, I had a crack at building my own site with WordPress. I decided that if it was a giant fail I would hire someone to do it, but aside from a few things that I have to tweak (but need to figure out the particular functions in WordPress first) I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out.

I looked at MoonFruit, but in the end I personally wasn't too keen on everything that they had on offer.

By the way, if you're still exploring hosting and all that stuff - I'd like to throw in a quick recommendation for Michael Minetree at Artist Web Hosting. He's a total champ.

Edit: Just realised that you probably get hosting anyway with MoonFruit Smile

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Lee Gordon · Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 3:55 pm Post subject:

I wonder if Ted Williams designs websites. Shocked

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Philip Banks · Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 5:50 am Post subject:

Yep, he does. They smell of urine and vomit and always let you down when you need them most.

todd ellis · Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 12:09 pm Post subject:

father???
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Deirdre · Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 2:26 pm Post subject:

Good Lord.

Have mercy, Philip.
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Michael Schoen · Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 11:16 pm Post subject:

DB Cooper is a delight to work with.
Why go anywhere else?
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whalewtchr · Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2011 6:37 pm Post subject:

I used an Apple template on my site, but if you can afford a custom design with someone who knows their stuff...

In my opinion, it's all about the branding and the graphic art that supports that branding, however, I have not evolved that far quite yet.

Wordpress is also impressive for basic stuff.
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