I need opinions.

[Michael Butash]

Exactly, something basic like a blog, about the author, some links to 
relevant things, thoughts, etc.  Then maybe a sales pitch.  Ideally 
you'd use seo to spam, er guide people to your page, pitch em, have them 
click on a paypal link or some such, auth, and profit.  Whatever such 
you intend for them to do once there, you first need to drive people 
there, meaning you need to be found, and not immediately closed as 
irrelevant.  These will give you a somewhat secure and well documented 
way to make a basic, manageable, and attractive site.

Wordpress, joomla, etc all have a certain amount of presentation that 
makes your site relevant to google robots with keywords, or can be made 
to.  I don't deal with that end of it, but others here can speak to them 
individually.  Pick out a theme, just don't go crazy and make it 
myspace-ish with nauseating graphics everywhere.  Then look up "search 
engine optimization" and dig to get it out there.

What you want in your cms is a wealth of community (support) and 
plugins/modules in whatever you choose, and all aforementioned software 
have plenty of them.  There are also hosted solutions of most of them 
canned to minimize the sysadmin involved - upload a theme and content, 
off you go.

Tough part is giving someone a reason to stay around your site - one 
page won't do that, let alone sell a cause.

-mb


On 02/15/2012 07:11 PM, keith smith wrote:
>
> Look for free WordPress templates. There are thousands for free. I would
> suggest taking some time and look at your options.
>
> If your site takes off and you build it wrong, you will pay later.
>
> Do some research. Install WordPress and look at the free templates.
>
> This is not a decision you can make in a couple hours.
>
> ------------------------
> Keith Smith
>
> --- On *Wed, 2/15/12, Michael Havens /<bmike1 at gmail.com>/* wrote:
>
>
>     From: Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com>
>     Subject: Re: I need opinions.
>     To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
>     Date: Wednesday, February 15, 2012, 6:12 PM
>
>     wordpress won't work (I don't think)
>     does anyone know of a forum template for kompozer that doesn't cost
>     anything? Believe me..... if I had any money I would be happy to pay
>     for things but I don't have any money. The last 4 bucks in my
>     checking account went to go daddy to pay for a domain that I can
>     hopefully make some money with :) (onlineworkfinder.us
>     <http://onlineworkfinder.us>) This is the page I'm going to put my
>     ad on.
>
>     I was thinking that making it real simple without all the hoopla
>     that the scam sites usually have would be the best idea.
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