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Cheapest place to employ a website maker

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  • mkeeley
    mkeeley Posts: 54 Forumite
    Have a look at www.templatemonster.com and it's sister site http://www.site2you.com

    Depending what you want these are a very cheap option but also very professional. TemplateMonster sells sites either non-exclusively and therefore cheaply or exclusively but more expensive. Site2You allows you to build your site online.
  • Garetha
    Garetha Posts: 981 Forumite
    Before paying someone for simple website creation ...

    Get a google email account (you don't need to use it)
    Then go to pages.google.com

    It's not difficult to create a single page website (and quite easy to add more pages)
    but best of all it's Free
  • save-a-lot
    save-a-lot Posts: 2,809 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Hi

    Another free route is Open Source Web Design

    https://www.oswd.org

    all css designs

    HTH
  • diamond4736
    diamond4736 Posts: 131 Forumite
    www.123-reg.co.uk, The instant site builders good as you can design your website yourself in 5 easy steps, you have a choice of over 300 templates to choose from and it looks professionally done, u even have a flash intro, I've used the instant site myself, i think it costs me about £35 a year and is well worth the money.
  • thanks, but do they have ecommerce templates? because i think i need them if i'm selling stuff
  • save-a-lot
    save-a-lot Posts: 2,809 Forumite
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    Some website hosts have fantastico installed in the cPanel and quite often there is an ecommerce script in there. Using fantastico it installs the scripts via a wizard. Check if you have a cPanel access to your host and whether they have scripts ready for use.
  • diamond4736
    diamond4736 Posts: 131 Forumite
    thanks, but do they have e commerce templates? because i think i need them if i'm selling stuff
    I think so, not sure what e commerce templates are but it does say you can add an e-shop to your instant site and tells you how,take a look for yourself, it lets you look through some of the templates before you buy, it also has a control panel so you can update/change your website as many times and whenever you want which is usefull.
  • welshgirlmel
    welshgirlmel Posts: 560 Forumite
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    My husband users ekmpowershop for ecommerce. It worls on a template system to build an online shop. He finds it really good and its only £19.99 per month

    http://www.ekmpowershop.com/ekmps/index.asp

    I think a company called oscommerce offer the same thing
    Mel
  • barginboyrob
    barginboyrob Posts: 727 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts Combo Breaker
    wow, thanks for everyones help!, i'm doing most of it myself now, got a few flash templates to work on using macromedia flash 8, seems to be making progress, just wondering if any one knew how to combine templates?

    Bascially i like the intro from one of them, and like the main bulk from another template!
  • Another useful template website:

    Open Web Design
    http://www.openwebdesign.org/
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