Website building/hosting advice

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SeaMonster on Tuesday, February 8, 2022 – 02:41 pm

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Trying to set up a fairly simple website for the wife's Art shoppe.

Just need to post and change posts of her work so customers can contact her to arrange payment/shipping.

I looked at Wix and GoDaddy but don't know if I need anything more than a super basic to free version. Any thoughts?

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Zang on Tuesday, February 8, 2022 – 02:58 pm

I'm not sure of free versions.   When I was going to start a firm I was going to use Square Space.   

Can she just go through Etsy or do they take too much off the top?  

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SeaMonster on Tuesday, February 8, 2022 – 03:48 pm

Etsy sorta sucks as a seller. She tried it. I'm down with spending $10-$20 bucks a month. Don't want to be paying a lot 2nd year as a lot of hosts have free 12montg offers. Just a changeable template with contact info would serve the purpose. 

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FaceOnMars on Tuesday, February 8, 2022 – 03:52 pm

GoDaddy is a trophy hunter ...

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/BUSINESS/04/01/godaddy.peta.protest/index.html

But to your question:  if it's a simple site without a ton of traffic or a need for a high level of functionality / support, you can probably get away with most of the cheaper offerings that are out there.  I haven't looked at shared hosting plans in a while, but there are review sites that rate them according to up time, cost, support, etc. 

If e-commerce is a possibility down the road, you might want to take a step back to evaluate under this consideration as well.

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SeaMonster on Tuesday, February 8, 2022 – 04:01 pm

Thanks for the advice 

it won't be GoDaddy