Cheap Web Site Wanted in the Near Future

As the Title Says i will be looking for a web site soon to advertise my new venture it can be a Basic site 2 poss 3 pages few photos With the View to Add a shop at a later date or a poss link to a ebay shop??
Which Ever Easier!

I Have been to Business Link For some Advice on my Venture they say I need the soul rights to this web site??? Because I Want to Create a Trade Mark

I Would Rather Pay Some One on Here to Do This Then Go Else Where and give Some One My Cash I Dont Know or Never Herd of

I also Want a Logo Iv Designed The Sort of thing i want just a roughf draft i want this to be part of my trade mark also

Business Link Explained there There are 2 Types of Trade Mark

TM & THE Letter R With a circle around it TM Is Free and R with a circle around it is From £5000

They Told me McDonlands Traded with TM Un till last year then changed to the R With circle

Dyson still trade with TM

This is wot they told me

Any help and Advice would be Greatly Appreciated in Advance for takeing the time to read this Folly Mon Nick

 

I will see if my sister can give me some pointers for you,she runs her own internet business and is always making new sites ,then she gets paid for something

 

My 2p worth:
You don't buy a website, you buy a domain name eg, folly-mon.co.uk You then buy web space.
What you upload to this web space is entirely up to you. (its all yours) Once something has been uploaded it then becomes a website.

You can buy "template websites" that are just that. You get a template and you can change it to your liking, the "problem" is the more options you have the more it costs, this sounds ok until you realise the limits of "buying cheap"

A far better option is to buy the domain name and webspace yourself and either buy a web making programme or pay some one to do it for you.

You really can buy folly-mon.co.uk for £9.99 (For two years) then webspace will cost £21 / year

I would not worry too much about a TradeMark ™ as its easy to lift pictures from the web, but I would strongly suggest that you put your website name on any pictures you have on your website.

As for an online shop yes you can, but why try and re invent the wheel when you can use

I wish you luck.

 

if you opt for the ebay route, let us know ... I will give you some pointers as to using key words etc ...

 

Unless your business is going to be about media of any kind, or web design, I wouldn't spend much money at all on a website. In this day and age, individual web sites aren't really the way to go. Everyone goes to the likes of eBay, Facebook, and Amazon to buy stuff.

Don't pay £100 per page, which is what some 'web designers' will charge (and then 9 times out of 10 they'll use a template anyway).

What sort of timescales are we looking at? Will you be supplying the graphics or would the designer need to do that?

Depending on what you want, I might be able to help you out.

 

Sorry, I don't. I don't have anything to do with facebook, Amazon I use to get book (so far only brought 1, am considering book 2) and ebay I do look at but don't often buy, I search for non big websites and book mark them and use them, I find the service you get is very good, presumably as they are often small companies. And I would never shop online for "my our weekly food shop"

But I do agree with you about "don't pay £100 / page" what do you charge £50?

 

To be honest, I've done the whole freelance thing for a while a few years ago, and found it too much like hard work. Its easier to work for someone else and have a steady workload for a steady income. Nowadays I rarely take on web site projects for other people, but if I do, it is usually simple sites for very small money. I'd typically pass the work to one of my younger cronies as a training exercise, and let them do it but I watch over them, just so they get the experience really.

 

Thanks for All replays
This is where I'm @ at the minute
I have bought 2 Domain names split stop 63.com & split stop 63.co.uk
I have gutted my camper a 1963 split Screen of the camping intrear Whitch I made my self
I am Makeing it in to a icecream coffee slush doenut bar for weddings corporate events poss shopping mall?? I will just see how the trade goes I have also bought a trad 1970s icecream van but am going to cut the back off and graft it in to a new shape transit or sprinter I have also bought a Mr Whipy Soft Serv machine I have got access to a plasma cutter work shops ect ect I have invested £25k already but have not gone in or intend to go in any debt when it's done it's done NO RUSH OR RACE!!! I want to be abull to print my logo and pics of my van on to mugs hats Hoodys umberelas ect ect Whitch I have wrighten Aurthorty to do so from VW After some begging and pleading
VW am Verry Strict as to wot you are Allowd to do EVEN IF IT IS YOUR OWN VAN
I Have been going to VW shows for 20 odd years and any V dub memobrila cost silly money OHs Dad ownes a few factory's and one of them prints all the above that iv spoke about and said they will print up Several Samples to Add on my site so I haven't got to out lay on that just take orders as they come in till I can build the stock up & know wot sells and wot don't I have posted this reply off my phone so if I need to edit it I will when I can access my pc that's where I'm at @ the Mo the eBay Route sounds the Route for Me chears Nick FM

 

Will the existing sellers in your area be OK about somebody new moving onto their 'turf' ? Do you still get 'ice cream wars' these days?



Ooops, wrong pic! Should've been this one:

 

ebay could be a good place to advertise ... it's cheap and your advert will also be able to be found on google ...

here is one guy who has just started advertising his catering van (he lists the advert with a cost of 1p so that it costs cheap to advertise on ebay

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CATERING-...2?pt=UK_BOI_Restaurant_RL&hash=item4d0233ed5a

this guy hires out his services for hog roasts:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Shropshir...2?pt=UK_BOI_Restaurant_RL&hash=item3f18818d1e

this guydoes smoothie bars:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Smoothie-...pt=UK_Home_Garden_Food_SM&hash=item2a1ea87e8d

this guy has ice cream bicycles:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Tradition...2?pt=UK_BOI_Restaurant_RL&hash=item2a1cfec54c

and this guy does coffee:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Coffee-va...8?pt=UK_BOI_Restaurant_RL&hash=item5ae75197aa

loads more on ebay

 

For the type of business you are talking about Folly, there are a few things that you will need to control:-
1. The website MUST be fully accessible to you for modifications and additions. You MUST NOT be required to pay someone each time you want to change something.
2. the position on Google needs to be worked at. There is no need to pay someone. You need good keywords and regular submission (free web submission to google)
3. Facebook can work well locally for this type of business. Good experiences can travel far and wide in this medium and can create new and repeat business.
4. Websites I have control over have been supplied to me for £100 - £150 with all the information I have supplied fully installed with access to all areas for mods, amendments and additions. It is also hosted, supported and protected for a small annual fee.
My experience of Business Link in this area is that you are required to use specified service providers to gain access to financial support and the cost is astronimical (I was quoted £6k less 50% funding - to cost me £3k). I actually had the website set up for £450, which included a shopping cart.
Take your time and get your options sorted out first before you commit.

 

Have I got this right.

You have brought a VW van that you want to sell Ice cream, do-nuts and coffee from at various events, and you also want to sell mugs, sweatshirts umbrellas (and anything else) with pictures of your van on?

Why would people want to buy pictures of your van on a mug etc, when all they have to do is stand back and take a picture of your van with a camera? (Then if they really wanted to, get it printed on a mug at local "photo shop")

I really do not understand
"VW am Verry Strict as to wot you are Allowd to do EVEN IF IT IS YOUR OWN VAN"

Why do they care what you do to your van?

Will yours look something like this?



(Picture not taken form a mug)



Oh, and domain names do not have spaces, so don't tell any more people you have

split stop 63.com You can have splitstop63.com I don't suppose you would be too happy to have a load of printing done only to find the web address is wrong.

I would suggest you let the .com expire as the .co.uk says it all for you. (In the mean time you could point the .com to the .co.uk site)

 

Sorry sister not got back yet, is this site any good http://www.nvu.com/

 

i see exatley wot you are saying mine did have a intrear like that iv removed it to put a stain less steel counter in across the back and put my camping gear in the loft

business link told me to bye both names .com & co.uk
thats why they told me to create a trade mark TM For free to stop people doing this

i know and fully understand Fraudsters can and will do wot you have said

if i create a TM They told me its official merchendice and I Own the rights to it

so its fraud and copy rights

i know full well every one buys doggy gear eg fake trainers track suits that is wot they have advised me to try and stop it

as for VW a guy name Vernon Walker a speialist vw mercanic only used a vw badge he did not even use the circle just the V on top of the W & Writ his name around the vw

vw sent him a county court writ if it was not removed from his web site and his & letter heading he was going to court

for some reason vw am very strict this is the advice i have been given to save me the ake from business link

this is the reason i have took the root to get permistion

i do not want to make a fortune from the merchendice i want it as a side line to wot i am doing just on the advice i have been given am trying to go the right way about it

obveslie the van is not big enoughf to carry the stock like i have spoke about is the reason i want a web site with ebay shop on it un less at a later date i make a small traylor to pull and carry some stock with me

i hope iv explained this as its been explained to me

Thank you for your pointers Watergarden Valid Points All The Best Nick