Web 2.0 Review: DIY business websites

Posted by AccountingWEB PM | on Tue, 02/09/2008 - 16:27 5390 4 comments

Web 2.0 for small businesses With the boom in readymade Web 2.0 sites showing no sign of slowing down, John Stokdyk documents his experiences with three of the leading providers for small business users: Mr Site, BT Tradespace and Microsoft Office Live.

The success of social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook over the past couple of years has inspired a "me-too" movement within the business world, as providers recognised the potential for applying some of the same principles to commercial websites.

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how about one.com

neutru | Thu, 16/10/2008 - 22:43 | Permalink

really cheap and almost free for basic website
also has templates to help create website

Is Web 2.0 old hat ??

Anonymous | Thu, 11/09/2008 - 11:20 | Permalink

http://www.infoworld.com/archives/emailPrint.jsp?R=printThis&A=/article/08/09/09/37NF-Demo2008-web-2_1.html

Another one missed

peter.wood100 | Fri, 05/09/2008 - 12:57 | Permalink

We researched the market in depth about three years ago and chose Sitemaker from http://www.webeden.co.uk/

It's also marketed as Moonfruit http://www.moonfruit.com/

Both versions offer an initial free trial. Nothing to download - entirely web based and therefore has the advantage that it is regularly updated.

It's a very easy product to use with all the resources you need, and it's a fraction of the cost of Microsoft Office Live. It's also easy to set up with your own domain name(s)

You can set up a mailing newsletter, and even set up a secure client log in area with downloads.

There is a good selection of templates, but we started with a clean sheet approach and designed our own (err.... not perfect..... work in progress, and a few pages need tidying up)

But most importantly though, it integrates well with Google Adwords and Google Analytics and has good SEO functions. After all, there's no point in have in web site if it can't be found.

Reliability has been 100% and customer support is good.

DIY Accounting

AnonymousUser | Thu, 04/09/2008 - 14:19 | Permalink

Surprising that an accounting site reviewing DIY sites missed this one too. DIY Accounting at www.diyaccounting.co.uk/
Googler page one search engine listing for accounting software and over 2 million hits last month alone.

Accounting software written on excel spreadsheets for self employed and smaller limited companies that non accountants can use to produce their final year end accounts and automatically produces the self employed or corporation tax returns.

Terry Cartwright
Proprietor
www.diyaccounting.co.uk