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Re: Ask HN: As a busy founder, how to address a website best?

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Post by neltnerb »

pc86 wrote: post #22
neltnerb wrote: post #7

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Oh, thank god. These look great. This one looks amazing: http://themeforest.net/item/enfold-responsive-multipurpose-t... is this kind of drag and drop page layout common nowadays? I feel like I'm going to have to buy you all a beer. I've got my own webserver, so my inclination is to try to install it there because it's there... it sounds like it might be much more sane to host it elsewhere though? Is there a benefit…

Just keep in mind that while themes from ThemeForest (and similar marketplaces) look great, they are usually a disaster from a code perspective. These should be seen as a temporary measure, and one that will be largely discarded when you have the funds to dedicate to a better site. Source: I've made quite a bit of money fixing ThemeForest themes when the business outgrows them.

Thanks for the heads up!

Re: Ask HN: As a busy founder, how to address a website best?

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Post by Everhusk »

I would recommend checking out www.weebly.com. It is a drag and drop website builder which I think would meet all of your requirements. You could easily have your website up and running in 1-2 hours with a nice design, and the costs are very reasonable (~$4/mo with hosting included). Best of luck!

Re: Ask HN: As a busy founder, how to address a website best?

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Post by dbla »

If you're looking for something a little bit more custom than a pre-built theme, my start-up has been experimenting with offering a custom designed theme for $200. We'll set up a phone call to go over your needs and design preference and then put something together for you and give you free hosting on our platform. The catch is that you allow us to open source the template so that your customers can use/tweak it in the future and that you use your hosting platform and give us good and honest feedback. We've done this once before and it turned out well. This was the end result: http://www.365startupgirl.com

Our designer is really talented and a pleasure to work with.

If you're interested feel free to hit me up. My email is in my profile.

EDIT: We also have a couple free bootstrap themes on our blog http://900dpi.com/blog

Re: Ask HN: As a busy founder, how to address a website best?

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Post by graycat »

Your ISP might have something simple where you could just fill in some blanks.

A lot of companies, including some VC firms, have just gone to Facebook and used it.

Could try any of the blog hosting means.

Probably don't want to run your own computer and, thus, if it is running Linux or not will be irrelevant at your level.

Re: Ask HN: As a busy founder, how to address a website best?

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Post by namuol »

Try http://webflow.com - it hits the sweet spot of "sensible defaults" while still giving you enough control.

I recently built a launch page with it (http://gitsub.io).

I'm used to doing sites "from scratch" but I have to admit the immediate feedback the webflow editor gives you is a huge win.

Re: Ask HN: As a busy founder, how to address a website best?

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Post by saluki »

Like others have said just go with a themeforest theme, if you or someone else in your company knows html/css they can take an html theme and have your website up and running in an afternoon.

I'm not a fan of wordpress unless you're going to be blogging posting articles on a regular basis.

WP is fast and easy to setup from scratch on hostgator or any web host . . . it will probably take longer to get the site setup vs. an html version . . . but it will be easier to edit/post articles.

hostgator is good shared hosting . . . to get setup fast and inexpensively . . .

Good luck with your new website.

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