Comments on: Get A Great Practice Website on a Budget http://practitionersjourney.com/2007/09/get-a-great-practice-website-on-a-budget/ Practice growth for alternative, holistic and integrative health professionals Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:51:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Dan http://practitionersjourney.com/2007/09/get-a-great-practice-website-on-a-budget/comment-page-1/#comment-66 Dan Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:41:00 +0000 http://practitionersjourney.com/2007/09/get-a-great-practice-website-on-a-budget.html#comment-66 Thanks, Bonnie. It is a great way to get a site up and running. On a related note, I realized that I forgot to mention that I'm talking www.wordpress.ORG, not www.wordpress.com. Wordpress.com orginally wouldn't let you run your blog on your own domain - you'd end up at www.yourblogname.wordpress.com. I know that's changed, but I'm not sure how flexible the custom domain solution on wordpress.com is. (If someone has tried it, let me know!). Either way, though, it's a great way to get a good looking site, and it's the best blogging platform I've used. Thanks, Bonnie. It is a great way to get a site up and running.

On a related note, I realized that I forgot to mention that I’m talking http://www.wordpress.ORG, not http://www.wordpress.com.

WordPress.com orginally wouldn’t let you run your blog on your own domain – you’d end up at http://www.yourblogname.wordpress.com. I know that’s changed, but I’m not sure how flexible the custom domain solution on wordpress.com is. (If someone has tried it, let me know!).

Either way, though, it’s a great way to get a good looking site, and it’s the best blogging platform I’ve used.

]]> By: Bonnie http://practitionersjourney.com/2007/09/get-a-great-practice-website-on-a-budget/comment-page-1/#comment-65 Bonnie Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:18:32 +0000 http://practitionersjourney.com/2007/09/get-a-great-practice-website-on-a-budget.html#comment-65 You mentioned wordpress, and one great thing about wordpress is that you can use it for a static website as well as a blog. In fact, the practitioner doesn't even have to think they are going to have a blog--just a static site and they can use wordpress as a way to create a nice looking content. Even if a practitioner has someone else set up the site because they don't feel they have the technical knowledge, wordpress can be useful. Once wordpress is set up and running it's so easy to update and change that that way they can easily write out new information as their practice focus changes--or have a secretary or someone do it without having to resort to the website designer, which can get spendy. Believe me, the reason I know about websites is that in my first office, the other practitioner decided we needed a website and they found a designer they liked and it cost us a fortune for something that didn't look as nice as I could throw together in about 15 minutes with wordpress! We still had to write our own content, but she charged us a minimum of 15 minutes to make even small updates. She also choose our host, which was one of the spendier hosts around. Her teaching package to show us how to do it left a great deal to be desired and it wasn't until I went online and started messing with some free sites that I really started to learn what I was doing. I have five sites that all include wordpress in one way or another. I've blogged a bit about using it. I think it's one of the best things to hit the web for small businesses. Nice post. You mentioned wordpress, and one great thing about wordpress is that you can use it for a static website as well as a blog. In fact, the practitioner doesn’t even have to think they are going to have a blog–just a static site and they can use wordpress as a way to create a nice looking content.

Even if a practitioner has someone else set up the site because they don’t feel they have the technical knowledge, wordpress can be useful. Once wordpress is set up and running it’s so easy to update and change that that way they can easily write out new information as their practice focus changes–or have a secretary or someone do it without having to resort to the website designer, which can get spendy.

Believe me, the reason I know about websites is that in my first office, the other practitioner decided we needed a website and they found a designer they liked and it cost us a fortune for something that didn’t look as nice as I could throw together in about 15 minutes with wordpress! We still had to write our own content, but she charged us a minimum of 15 minutes to make even small updates. She also choose our host, which was one of the spendier hosts around. Her teaching package to show us how to do it left a great deal to be desired and it wasn’t until I went online and started messing with some free sites that I really started to learn what I was doing.

I have five sites that all include wordpress in one way or another. I’ve blogged a bit about using it. I think it’s one of the best things to hit the web for small businesses.

Nice post.

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