Website Creation

Any advice on which website creation/hosting online software's the best. The father in laws business is in need of some help. He's a metal fabricator/welder and business is poor. I'm trying to help out by creating a website for him, but due to limited time want a one stop package that will enable me to design and host the site and possibly pay a few quid a month for a domain and no adverts. Any recommendations?

Take a look at http://wordpress.com/

They offer hosting, and a decent array of themes to get you started. Shouldn't take long to set something up using your own domain etc. and look competent.

I'm after some website planning advice.

My website started over 12 years ago with 6 pages, and I've just added on and on, updated it, changed the look (dreamweaver templates) but never really given it the thought it needed as to what pages go where. It now has over 80 pages of information, most of which is static, and it is a bit of a jumble.

I've tried to switch over to Wordpress but have decided it isn't working for me (a quarter of the site is in Wordpress, the rest was created with dreamweaver). So much of my site is static, and articles which were blogs need to be in the main part of the site, as we constantly refer to them, even though they may be 2 or 3 years old. So the site is going to switch back, but the plan is to rebuild it from scratch and give it a whole overhaul in the process, planning through the actions users take when visiting the site, to improve the user experience. This will all be done on a testing server, as the current site is a mess. 95% of the work will be done by me and my assistant.

What I'm looking for is some advice as to project planning and mapping this, whether there are some established systems we could be working to, to help plan, map out the new website and simplify the project.

I've used google but there seems so much info, it is difficult to find out what is best amongst all the noise.

Any advice, help or guidance gratefully appreciated.

Shoosh - what you need is pretty much what I do in my day job. PM me.

move the whole site to a CMS and employ someone who knows what they are doing. 80 pages of static html will suck to update. You want to separate content from style/design. You probably want to do a content audit and figure out what you have and what you want to keep etc

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