The Site is Alive

Thanks to lots of dilligent work by my web developer, Matt, I now have a functioning website. I was reasonably impressed with my ability to take his template and make it work with FrontPage. It's amazing what someone with a small amount of technical aptitude can do with a WYSIWYG editor.

There are still some minor tweaks to be done, but I'm confident enough to formall unveil: Maniac MarCom - Austin Marketing Communications and Technical Writing

I decided to host at GoDaddy.com because the hosting was working reasonably well set up there. They were running a call in special (aren't they always) for 25% off long-term registrations. I renewed for 2 years at the reasonable price of about $70. I was exceedingly impressed with their phone-in technical support.

As soon as set-up blogs are finished, I resolve to tell everyone a bit more about what I'm working on (at least the things I'm working on that aren't top-secret!).

The Web Site

The Web site is the last thing I need to get up-and-running before I feel like I have a real business. In order to accomplish what I'm trying to with SEO, I need to find a way to make the Title/H1/H2/Meta Description/Closing Text of each page unique. I've spoken to a couple of developers and they give me conflicting information on whether or not this is easily possible with a template that they create and then hand over to me in FrontPage. I'm sure there's a solution, so I have resolved to figure it out before I put the site live.

I am unhappy with GoDaddy's free Web site hosting. I should have realized that nothing is truly free. If you look at the one-pager that I currently have up (www.maniacmarcom.com) you'll see that GoDaddy feeds little Google ads to the top of your site. How irritating.

One of the developers recommended Dreamhost to me for Web hosting, so I will most likely go with them. Stay tuned.

Note my new-and-improved spelling of Web site per the AP Stylebook guidelines!