Web Pages for Your Farm Lyndon Irwin Bois D’Arc, Mo pages.prodigy.net/lirwin

Who may benefit from their own Farm Web Site? Purebred Livestock Anyone offering unique agricultural products Anyone needing to supplement other advertising

Who will design your web site? Hire a professional Learn to do your own

Disadvantages of doing your own site Requires ability design maintenance loading Takes time

Advantages of doing your own site Probably lower cost Much easier to make changes and keep your site up to date It’s more fun than hiring it done

Designing your pages Is it necessary to know HTML? Consider using one of the page design programs Front Page Claris Home Page etc.

Designing your pages Look at other web sites for ideas What colors, fonts, sizes work? Keep it tasteful

Photos / Scanning Use either a scanner or digital camera Scanning your own good photos is less expensive Digital cameras are faster Don’t “borrow” scans

Scans Be cautious with size of scans Large scans are slow to load. Will your potential customers be willing to wait for slow scans? If you want to show a large scan, consider a thumbnail

Plan for multiple pages Link pages forward back Future pages

Where will you put your web pages? Does your Internet server provide free space for home pages? Free web page hosts such as GeoCities or FortuneCity etc. Free means banners?? Get your own domain?

Using web pages to supplement other advertising

Supplementing Other Internet Marketing If you have questions, us. If you want to know more about our farm or our fleeces, visit our Farm Fleece Page. Thanks for looking! Have fun! Click here if you want to see other fleeces that we have on eBay

Web Pages Be prepared to answer a variety of requests for information “I’m doing a term paper about wool…..” Use a Web Page to answer your Customers’ most common questions “How do I fit a lamb?”

Happy New Year The End