Getting this website up has been a bit of an adventure these past couple of weeks.
Various website-designer friends reported that they used PC- or Mac-based website creation tools. After a quick survey of available options and reviews, we settled on Web Easy 8, downloaded a trial version, signed up for GoDaddy hosting, and designed a simple site using existing photos and videos. Took us several days to learn the tool, confirm that it could do what we needed, and design/compose the site. But it was cumbersome, their FTP tool kept failing, we had to cut-n-paste raw HTML at times, and when it was done we always had to go back to that original PC to make changes. It just didn't "feel" right to these Google afficianados.
As we had some minimal experience with Weebly from a couple of years ago, and didn't want to drag around the antiquity of a platform-, not a cloud-based tool, we decided to try it out. Turns out that they had made many improvements in the interim, and we were able to recreate the originally-designed website using Weebly in literally 2 hours at a local coffeeshop. We redirected our GoDaddy URL to Weebly's hosting site, closed the GoDaddy hosting account saving a few bucks, and here we are. So far, so good...
Various website-designer friends reported that they used PC- or Mac-based website creation tools. After a quick survey of available options and reviews, we settled on Web Easy 8, downloaded a trial version, signed up for GoDaddy hosting, and designed a simple site using existing photos and videos. Took us several days to learn the tool, confirm that it could do what we needed, and design/compose the site. But it was cumbersome, their FTP tool kept failing, we had to cut-n-paste raw HTML at times, and when it was done we always had to go back to that original PC to make changes. It just didn't "feel" right to these Google afficianados.
As we had some minimal experience with Weebly from a couple of years ago, and didn't want to drag around the antiquity of a platform-, not a cloud-based tool, we decided to try it out. Turns out that they had made many improvements in the interim, and we were able to recreate the originally-designed website using Weebly in literally 2 hours at a local coffeeshop. We redirected our GoDaddy URL to Weebly's hosting site, closed the GoDaddy hosting account saving a few bucks, and here we are. So far, so good...
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